A #measure flash mob!
What is a #measure flash mob?
In the spirit of real life flash mobs, a #measure flash mob is“a group of Twitter #measure people who assemble suddenly in a virtual place, crowd source their knowledge for a brief time to tackle a problem, then disperse.”
- A simple problem statement or question
- A rallying call on the #measure Twitter channel
- One hour to tackle the question, after the delay the editing access are removed (but the raw document remains available for viewing)
- @immeria will review & format the results which will be freely available as a blog post
What are the rules?
- Every change is tracked with your Google id... so people won’t mess around deleting stuff and changes are monitored live.
- Content should never be deleted, it is highlighted and the Insert/Comment feature is used
- We don't worry about formatting...
- Participants add their twitter name to the participants list
What were the results?
- The first question was "Custom built or vendor? Is it better to use a vendor solution (either tags or logs) or develop your own custom-built solution?"
- It was really cool to see the document coming alive as other people simultaneously edited
- We used the chat sidebar to discuss at the same time
- We could see people coming and going but sadly, we see them as "Anonymous #", although every change is tracked with the actual Google username
- 34 #measure tweeps came to see the document
- 8 actively edited something
Can we see the result?
For sure! The raw document is available in Google Docs and an edited version will be available shortly. Also, a #measure flash mob folder has been created to hold all project files.I like the idea, when is the next one?
That's the trick! It's a surprise! I'll try to come with interesting topics and do it again. Why not send in your question and vote on submitted ones!A big thank you to @gprzyklenk @aaronfossum @samuelhalle @keithmacd @vabeachkevin @rmanzanet @judah for their active participation in this first experiment!