We were asked this on FutureLearn’s “Web Science: How the Web Is Changing the World” course back in November 2013. My response back then, originally posted, in the course Google+ community is still relevant today and I would welcome any recommended solutions to my demanding (?) requirements.
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I was reminded of Google Wave - a defunct Google product that I never actually got my hands on - via this tweet by Richard Gomer:
"If email were invented today, we'd call it social media, right?"
Well no, I wouldn't actually, at all, not for work or play.
This video (made by someone who wanted an invite to use the product!) is a good summary of what Google Wave was designed to achieve:
As a business/IT project/programme manager (amongst other roles) most of my working life is spent wrestling with action lists, issues, incidents, bug lists, change requests, emails, IM conversations, phone/Skype/Lync/con calls, SMS texts, meetings, making sure the right people are communicated with, fire fighting the "urgent" stuff while trying to keep the "important" stuff moving forward, I still so need and want this product or equivalent.
In summary, this product was intended to have a single communication stream regardless of the communication method. Anyone using or know of one?
Resources
1) Google Wave Overview vid (10 mins) by Google: http://youtu.be/p6pgxLaDdQw
2) Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 (80 mins): http://youtu.be/v_UyVmITiYQ
3) Wikipedia entry for Google Wave: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave
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