In honor of my new blog, the good folks at Whatever sa/nv (yup, that’s the name of the company) gave me a nice gift to pass along to you. The gift — an invitation to MicroPlaza, a new and very cool Twitter tool that allows you to track the links that are shared within your Twitter network. To accept your invitation, just click here. I only have 20 invitations, so if you are interested — click and join now.
First, I’ll share a word about MicroPlaza, and then a word about another of their products: Knowledge Plaza. I think both tools deserve a good look – MicroPlaza – if you use Twitter, and Knowledge Plaza – if you are looking at Enterprise 2.0 / Knowledge Management solutions.
MicroPlaza is a neat Twitter tool that allows you find interesting links that are shared in your Twitter network. It does quite a bit more too, and the best way to understand it is to try it yourself. You can participate in and track the discussions surrounding the content that is important to you and your “tribes” (your virtual communities of people who share your interests). Tribal search is a great relevancy filter. In other words — you’ll only find stuff on MicroPlaza that is relevent to you. That’s cool.
The smart folks at Whatever noticed that an awful lot of conversations on Twitter are focused around shared blog posts and news items. Twitter is becoming a significant part of the way these links are shared, and it serves as a back-channel to the conversations about the link content (which the author hoped would take place on the comment section of the blog or news page). In reality, the back-channel conversation is taking place, and MicroPlaza give you a view into that conversation. Moreover, MicroPlaza lets you see who else is talking about the topics you care about, and what they are saying. This is a great way to expand your network and to engage in targeted listening.
The folks at Whatever have another tool — one that I’m even more interest in — called Knowledge Plaza. Knowledge Plaza is a seriously impressive, though very new, Enterprise 2.0 tool. From what I saw, it seems to be very well suited for those companies who rely heavily upon their knowledge economy for their competitive advantage. In a future post I’ll have to write more about this tool, and others like it. I’ll also explain what I mean by “knowledge economy”, since I think it’s an important concept that can unite the worlds of KM and E2.0. Alas, too much detail.
For now, let me thank @Olivero for his kind gift: that is, for letting me give a gift to my readers. Enjoy!
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Hi Gil,
Came across your blog from a tweet from Jamie Pappas. Thanks for the opportunity to check out MicroPlaza. I should not be surprised at the rate of innovation that is occurring with tools and services. But everytime I come across a new service or tool I wonder “what is their business model?, “how are they going to monetize this?”. I guess I need to keep reading and learning. Best of luck with your new career path.
Best,
Joe
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Thanks for the Microplaza invite. Hard to believe it isn’t called TWITTER(something). I am looking forward to Tiles and Mosaics. Nice interface. No fat. Again, thanks for the heads up. –jmacofearth
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Hi Gil,
my wife and I have been beta testing Microplaza since last Monday, and we are both loving it… In general I seem to see a trend in other sites creating relevance using twitter based data, much like Microplaza is doing successfully.
Over at feedly they are crowdsourcing for suggestions to improve their service, and I had an idea to “microplazify” feedly.
I think beyond using twitter data to increase relevance of search results (the other apparently hot thing going right now), utilizing it for feedly’s magazine style news readers would be awesome. I wished there were more microplaza’s out there!
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