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Adventures in Social Networking via Enterprise-wide Team Collaboration
Ok, I admit it – I’m at least a click or two behind the social networking cutting edge…Not way behind, but by no means a hardcore facebook junkie. So when our Web Designer Joshua McGinnis came back from SXSW and said that Twitter was all the rage (again!), I decided to give it a look. (It’s ok that I’m two years late!)
My first reaction was, “Cool service but way too much information about people I don’t know and who has time for this? ” That was closely followed by, “hmm…wait a second…this would be really cool if I could integrate it with my QuickBase apps!!!”
So after ten minutes of searching through twitter widgets and signing up for an account, I had embedded a little widget on a QuickBase dashboard that updated with any posts from my “friends” on Twitter. So how would I use this at work? Well…If I embed this in the QuickBase app I use for my Business Development team to track our leads/pipeline, then we can use it to do real time updates from anywhere (via mobile phone). I love the idea of having the entire team updated the second we get a new enterprise customer. Or more importantly, if I’m in a meeting and need a piece of information that may not be easily accessible, I can text a question to my team, have it pop up in the place they are working and where the answer is, and have them respond in real-time.
With QuickBase & Twitter together, I get the speed and ease of IM, the persistence of a Blog, the proximity to the information that’s relevant to my team, and the communication with the people that matter to my work. Social networking apps are cool but for me, if my teams can work smarter, they become very very cool!
Anybody else see the value of this or other integrations of social networking apps with QuickBase for business use?
Anybody else with some free time want to work their magic and manipulate the Twitter & QuickBase API’s so that I could just text a Customer name to Twitter and receive contact information on my phone from my QuickBase CRM? Social networking rocks 
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Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog where she dispenses advice on career, job search, and management issues. She's also the co-author of Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Leader's Guide to Getting Results and former chief of staff of a successful nonprofit organization, where she oversaw day-to-day staff management, hiring, firing, and employee development.
Anita Bruzzese is a syndicated columnist for Gannett/USA Today on workplace issues and the author of “45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy.” She has been on the Today show, and quoted in publications such as O, The Oprah Magazine, Glamour, Self.com and BusinessWeek.com. Her website, 45things.com, is listed on the Forbes top 100 websites for women.
Alexandra Levit’s goal is to help people find meaningful jobs - quickly and simply - and to succeed beyond measure once they get there. Follow her @alevit.
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