Tweetboard - showcase a Twitter stream in your blog. The owner and visitors to your site populate this stream by tweeting in the text box. All replies are threaded. View a history of all tweets or the lastest ones.

Rather than embed this app in your blog, it acts as a tab on the side of the browser window, which you click and a window expands. If this tab is red it means there are new tweets (from the owner and visitors) since your last visit; if it’s green means otherwise.

When someone tweets in the text box provided, the tweet appears at Twitter with a special link called “posted.at” at the end of the tweet. This is a unique link that points back to the site, and opens up that thread…this brings traffic back to your site where the visitors can participate in the thread discussion.
When browsing a sites Tweetboard you can click the permalink of a tweet and it launches a text box where you can copy the permalink of that tweet. You could paste this link into a blog post or a tweet, whatever…I guess this pop-up box spoonfeeds you rather than having to right-click, then copy shortcut.

Further to this, each reply in a tweetboard thread also has a special link called “inreply.to”. When someone clicks the permalink of a reply, a box pops up with the link to that spot in the thread on the tweetboard of that site. If you are reading a reply in the thread and click reply, and enter a tweet, that tweet will appear in twitter with a link back to that exact spot in the thread.

Twitlogo - create and download your own Twitter logo, here’s me.

Dial2Do - a speech to text way to tweet and more, see the others

Tweexchange - see if a user name is available

BONUS
twictionary
My Tweet 16 - view a users first 16 tweets…oh, this doesn’t work as “Twitter only makes a user’s last 3200 tweets available.”

To tell you the truth, this reporting thing is going to be a whole new component to our CoPs, which means I will have to dedicate some good time to learning about it, practicing, and then putting some stuff together to inform CoP facilitators, and then to support them.

I’m so busy at the moment that I keep putting it off. I would be prepared to spend 15 minutes a day on it, but I’m one of those people who once they start, really dive into something; the momentum, continuity and freshness helps me retain and not forget where I’m up to, or how things work again.

Then I thought, blog fragments.

I asked the vendor if she could possibly use her blog to do a weekly post on reporting. Maybe what’s already available, and what’s involved. And then start getting into the new package…perhaps posting once a week to showcase a report and what questions it answers

eg. If your boss is asking for numbers, but you don’t have the time for this stuff just try this quick and easy report on distinct logins, that will buy you time for now.

eg. The boss may ask for penetration metrics eg. The difference in number between members of CoPs and all employess

eg. If your boss wants a more explicit step up, try this report that tells him how many subscribers there are across all blogs and forums

eg. The boss may want some activity metrics eg. the number of blog and forum posts

eg. What about some engagement, try this report on the number of blog/forum posts a month compared to comments/replies. What about the difference between members and contributors, or compare the number of contributors to previous months.

This would really spoon feed me, and help workaround my attitude, and attention scarcity.

There’s no way I’m going to read a paper or dive into a whole new area right now as I’m too busy, but if someone feeds me little fragments where I can learn in bits and pieces, well then I will pay some attention.

Plus I can always comment on the blog posts to get some clarification and context.

Since we are talking about metrics, here’s what Agnes Kolkiewicz emailed me back, I thought it was interesting:

“As I’m sure you know, adoption and success go hand in hand…so I usually encourage the use of metrics not just to measure ROI, but also to measure progress along the way, as then you have data to fall back on at a later date to say this is how the system improved over time. Measuring things along also helps identify “peak times” in participation so that community facilitators can try and perhaps recreate the event that caused the peak at a later date.”

“I’ll post something tomorrow and will aim at a minimum of one post a week.. your email was a good motivation!”

I replied:

“thx Agnes…you are right…kind of like measuring the heartbeat, the rhythm”

Let’s finish off with a quote by Dave Snowden on the theme of this post:

“The basic idea is simple: Small things are more adaptable than big things, and they are frequently more interesting and more able to gain our attention. People will spend more time surfing the Web and using the fragmented material of an RSS feed than reading documents. It’s easier to write a blog than a book. Fine granularity material can combine in novel and different ways more easily than formal documents.”

Twicsy - there are many ways to share images on Twitter, but if you share them using yfog or Twitpic, these are harvested and shown at Twicsy, here are some from the Iranian protests. Twitmatic does the same for video. [via TC]

Twitcaps - same as Twicsy above, it harvests the latest images shared on Twitter

Tweetmic - speech to text tweets for the iPhone, also see vlingo, Twitwoop, TwitterFone, Twitsay, Jott, Spinvox

Tweetree - the alternate interface for Twitter has added a new feature where you can click on links in tweets and view the actual webpage within Tweetree, without opening a new tab or window.

BONUS
SpyMaster
How Twitter’s Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems)

Actually, in addition to lifestyle, it also may be an emergency alternative in the event of biological scares like Swine Flu.

NOTE: Similar terms are: working from home, telecommuting, distributed work, mobility, digital nomads, remote teams, virtual teams…

We have some online tools now that make remote managing and working more effectively possible, and as some say this may be the Future of Work, and the world, as it has a collective benefit beyond organisations.

Reason’s for Telework

• Reducing carbon footprint and oil imports
• Reducing capital and operational costs
• Saving of personal cost and time for workers
• We now have some real-time solutions (Video conferencing, Desktop sharing, Instant Messaging) as well as more effective asynchronous communications (Blogs, Forums)
• Pushes our aim for a collaborative culture by default
• Pushes a work-in-progress culture (managers keeping tabs by reading a workers blog for raw updates, rather than having to wait for the final draft or a meeting)
• Pushes to form connections in online networks
• Happier  workers
• Talent retention
• Encourages more productive self-reliant workers

Blog post excerpts on this topic

Working from Anywhere:

"Not intended to supplant traditional workplaces, third places, just as the phrase suggests, are an alternative to the first place, the formal corporate office, and the second place, your home. Our research, in fact, shows that workers of the future will on average spend approximately 40 percent of their time in corporate facilities (either theirs, or their clients) 30 percent in a home office, and the remaining 30 percent in one or more third places. We believe the use of such third workplaces will become very common during the next several years, for the following reasons:

Organizations will continue to move away from fixed-cost structures to variable cost models in order to reduce capital requirements and risk, and to increase their agility or responsiveness to changing environments;
Most remote and mobile workers do not have adequate alternate meeting places, office services or technical support that are affordable and convenient;
Home-based independent workers also need and want better technical support and services ?"

I like this excerpt from the Wall Street Journal:

"Employers should adopt four-day workweeks and permit or expand telecommuting. A four-day workweek would eliminate 20% of commuting. Telecommuting could eliminate even more. Management Technology Associates studies show win-win-win benefits. Businesses reduce premises’ costs, overhead and labor with gains in productivity of 10%-40%. Workers enjoy significant fuel and time savings. Society reduces fuel use, traffic congestion and pollution."

I like this post on happier workers vs drones:

"Today, more than 12 million employees telecommute or “telework” more than 8 hours a week, up from about 6 million in 2000, according to Gartner Dataquest, a firm tracks this sort of stuff. The number will hit nearly 14 million by 2009.
It’s been increasing at a steady rate for several years.
Why?
Because it makes sense, it’s eminently economical, and it’s green.
Telecommuting is enabled by technology, of course. Electricity, a computer, the Internet, a cell phone or telephone are the basics.
The benefits to workers are terrific. Telecommuters largely are happier and more efficient than office drones. Their workday can span 24 hours. They can work and spend time with family.
Think about how many resources companies spend on building and maintaining offices - maintenance, insurance, utility costs, furnishings - the list can go on and on. With telecommuting, most companies could function equally well with a smaller bricks-and-mortar footprint."

The Future of Work & Home:

“more than 28m Americans now work from home at least one day per month and the number is expected to rise to 100m by 2010.”

Telecommuting - One of the Best Responses to this economy - Undress for Success THE best Guide for this:

"Kate Lister, principal researcher at TRN said, “Today only 7.7% of about 16 million Canadian workers telecommute, but 5.2 million more could. If eligible employees worked at home just half the time it would be the same as taking 1.6 million cars off the road for a year. In fact, 170,000 homes could be powered for a year with the energy saved in office electricity alone.”

This blog posts further describes two scenarios in the cost of work, one from the employee and the other the employer.

Digital nomads:

"Through its open work program, which more than half of Sun’s workforce takes part in, workers have no official desk and, instead, are given the choice to come to the office and find an open space or not come in at all. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s chief executive, explains to the Economist that because of the program, Sun has been able to retain its employees longer and increase productivity."

More on Sun:

• The average worker only used 64 watts per hour at home, compared to 130 watts per hour in a Sun office.
• Commuting was responsible for 98% of each employee’s carbon footprint.
• Working from home two and a half days per week saves two and a half weeks of commuting time per year.
• The same amount of work at home saves 5400 kilowatt hours of energy per year.

Click here for Sun’s Open Work program.

Department of US Government Gets Why Teleworking Works:

"You might not believe the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) would be a hotbed of telecommuting, but it is. The federal agency, made up of 5,000 civilians and 1,600 to 1,700 military personnel, provides information systems support for the DoD."

Telecommuting Trends (review of the Economist’s Home Warriors article)

• Another study estimates that 33m Americans are employed in roles sutable for telecommuting; removing these commuters from daily travels could drive down oil imports by 25% and reduce carbon emissions dramatically…with the added benefit of increased productivity and perhaps even vacation time. 
• Employers are beginning to understand that increased agility, reduced costs and enhanced business continuity can flow from encouraging telecommuting, actually strengthening a business’ competitiveness and resilience whilst removing large capital and operational costs from the bottom line. 
• Studies of remote workers at American Express and BT show that they can be 30-40% more productive.
  A separate study concludes that remote workers can suffer from career stagnation and isolation, but ironically suggests that richer, ambient and persistent communication channels are the solution.

The State of Telecommuting

"The simplest bottom-line numbers: 17% of Federal employees telework on a regular basis, as do 14% of private-sector employees. There’s been a marked change in the reasons employees offer for being interested in telework as well. Compared to last year, the number of people who are motivated by lowered expenses - primarily commuting expenses - has jumped from 31% to 67%. (This data correlates well with an IBM study from earlier this year that found $4.50 per gallon gas would be the breaking point for many commuters)."

How come Distributed Work is Still the Next Big Thing?

A paper called, How come Distributed Work is Still the Next Big Thing?, lists six reasons and eight barriers for distributed work.

BUSINESS CASE

1. Reducing basic workforce costs
   • Cost reduction (Sun, IBM, Cisco have reduced real estate and facility costs by 50%)
   • Workers need less support as they learn to solve problems with technology (not sure about this one)
2. Increasing workforce productivity
   • Reduction in inefficient meetings
3. Attracting and retaining talent
   • Talent retention due to better family life and reduce personal costs eg. Travel
4. Increasing organisational agility
5. Reducing the business risk of disruption from terrorism or a natural disaster
6. Reducing traffic congestion, air pollution, and environmental impact more generally

"…one of the most unproductive things we do in the entire economy is move millions of bodies into central business districts every morning and then back home again every evening.

In the Industrial Era, given the technologies of the time, there was no choice. Factory workers had to be in the factory to work. Not only that, but all points on the assembly line had to operate in synch; the activities were tightly interconnected, and highly dependent on each other."

BARRIERS

It also hones in on some of the eight barriers to distributed work:

1. Inherent human inertia against externally imposed change
   

   "…people resist being changed, because it means loss of personal control and generates an unknown future where they fear being less successful than they are in the present"

   "Distributed Work places a huge premium on self-reliance and on being productive and work-focused even in the absence of the work-culture “messages” that every corporate facility sends nonstop."

2. Organisational inertia
   • used to stability, predictability, and efficiency
3. Management habits and Industrial-Age thinking
4. Fear on the part of middle managers
   • lack direct observation/interaction/control
   • disintermediation/irrelevance
5. Fear on the part of front-line workers
   • new skills to master
   • different social stimulation
   • do people recognise me
6. Uncertainty about communication and relationships in a distributed environment
   • meetings become special and not abused
7. The CEO "Edifice Complex" that leads to visible corporate facilities
   • bums on seats
8. Plain old complexity-Distributed Work is truly a Big Change

CONTEXT

How does the business case fit into your context/strategy/requirements

Where is it best applied? Perhaps workers with certain roles? Perhaps a couple of days a week? Perhaps workers that live far from the office? Perhaps it’s an only offered for special circumstances, or offered in temporary blocks?

How will the challenge effect operations..a change management process? They have an ROI Calculator.

Corporate Agility

Below is a slidedeck on the future of work, which is based on the Corporate Agility book.

More

Telecommuting and the Untethered Employee
Is Your Workplace Results Oriented or Time Oriented?
What makes web working more difficult?
6 Answers About Telecommuting
Why Your Boss Doesn’t Want You to Telework
Trends in Teleworking
Are Web Workers Truly Green?

embedit.in - embed doc and image files or URLs into your blog posts as flash boxes - doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, wpd, odt, ods, odp, png, jpg, gif, tiff, bmp, eps, ai, txt, rtf, csv, html. Limit is 20 meg. If you already have a web page with links to lots of documents, use embedit.in sitewide to convert them in one go. See their tips. I’d rather not embed it in this post, but here’s a URL to an example of embedding a URL. [via nw]

Webinmail - if all you have is an email connection, yet you want to surf the web, then email this service with the URL you want in the subject field, and they will email you back the page…you can even email a search query. [via DI]

Innercircle.cc - create an email distribution list. Also see posterous group blog/email lists

Smub.it - ever read a webpage on your phone and want to bookmark it in delicious, share it on Twitter, Facebook or Friendfeed, email it, etc… I do all the time, but my phone doesn’t have bookmarklets (do phones have these). Anyway, what you can do now is prepend the URL you want to bookmark/share with “smub.it/”. It’s kind of like ShareThis, but done manually by altering the URL.

eg.
- if you came across this URL on your phone
http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/surf-the-web-via-email/5624/

- you go to the address bar, and prepend it with “smub.it/”
smub.it/http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/surf-the-web-via-email/5624/

- then it takes you to a page of icons for delicious, facebook, twitter, friendfeed, email, etc…click on one of these and your away.

Problem with my phone is I can’t choose an icon to click, darn….

Anyway, you can also manage your bookmarks at smub.it, and use a smub bookmarklet or toolbar

It’s also a URL shortener, where you can customise your URL’s
ie enter your ID and a keyword. For example the link in the example above could be
smub.it/johntropea/surfemail

[via BrightHub]

Liveflows - offers related posts from your blog, similar to Outbrain and Zementa, only this one is a distributed network, and lives in the footer of your blog (it actually feels like part of the browser). See related posts from your blog, popular posts in my network, blogs I follow, blogs that follow me. I get the feeling that it’s something MyBlogLog could have done, and something Google Friend Connect (GFC) is doing. Only in GFC you only need a profile to follow people, whereas in LiveFlows you need to be a blogger (which is essential so it can show popular posts from your network). GFC can be seen more of a fans type tool …I do like that the social bar gadget has commenting and site activity, and other features like ratings. Most of these relate to the homepage, unless you embed a gadget in a post.
I wrote about the blogosphere as a distributed social network a while back. [via LG]

Google News Timeline - When you visit the site delete the saved queries. Then from the drop down menu choose blogs, and enter the name of your blog. Voila, now you have a visual date based archive of your blog. Sort by day, week, month, year and drag to sift through the archives.
Here’s a link to my blog starting from Jan 2009.
Of course you can add lots of blogs and other news sources, or even keywords…perhaps a liteweight alternative to Google Reader.
It’s all based on Google Reader, so the archives only go back to its inception in 2005. Also see 30boxes blog timeline. [via DI]

Evernote - How did I miss this one. I’ve been using Webnote for so long, but I’m now testing to switch over to Evernote.
Basically via the web, mobile web, email, SMS/MMS, blog post footer button, Twitter, download version (even for mobiles) or bookmarklet I can add a note, clip a webpage, add an attachment (audio/video/etc) into any of my Evernote notebooks. Also tag all my notes, search (even text in images, limit to title field and tag, limited to one or multiple notebooks), synch files, make public notebooks, to-do list boxes, saved searches…and heaps more. Check out their blog, and tips.

Tinychat - create an on-the-fly chat room, even embed it in your blog

The latter is a little different as it’s an on-the-fly tool to perform and coordinate tasks/conversations similar to email, but with less annoyance…sometimes called Activity-Centric Collaboration. From the screencast I find IBM’s Activities in tune with human behaviour. I have a task to do, I create a space, and interactions with people who help me, take place in a open task thread. But the beauty is they can add to the thread with a multitude of objects, they can answer a screenshot with an email, answer an email with a doc, answer a doc with an IM…it’s a thread made up of different objects.

Finally a task/conversation lives at a URL…but it’s not a blog, wiki, forum, online doc, but instead a task/conversation thread that can be made up of elements from different object types.

In email you have to reply with an email, you have to reply to an IM with an IM, you have to reply to a blog post with a comment, etc… Things are changing, now we can have a generic thread where the conversation elements can be made up of various formats.

This is important as we are not tied to one technology when contributing to the space. Currently if I’m in an email thread, but need immediacy for the next reply I will IM…and there you have it, I have just broken the conversation into scattered pieces. And the conversation doesn’t live at an open URL anyway.

I’m finding tools like IBM’s Activites and Google Wave as the new email/IM/attachments space…where conversations take place using a multitude of tools, are threaded in an open place, and don’t have to take place in an existing group space, but instead can be created on-the-fly when the activity arises. This is totally in tune with how we behave as it has very low barriers to start something, and to contribute, in fact it has the ease of email, but is less frustrating in coordinating…which means these spaces may just be the next killer app to solve our annoyance with current tools like email when trying to do tasks/collaborate.

As you can see, you don’t have to prior belong to a team or group, it’s on-the-fly creation of a collaboration space, which is increasingly important in the more role based networked organisation that we are moving towards. It’s more about interactions revolving around an activity, rather than general sharing or that activity having to take place in a best fit prescribed place eg. an existing CoP or team space (which is dire when the people you want to collaborate with aren’t on your team or CoP).
We need more process centric methods in enterprise social computing to make way for the acceptance of more opportunistic tools such as social networks. And for ease of use, we want to contribute via lots of tools eg. a bookmarklet, and as Jon Mell says (in reference to sending an IM via email), don’t make me think…and we want updates delivered any which way.

Basically what is happening is the technology, and what and how we want to achieve our aims, has become a tool designed for human behaviour. I have a task or start a conversation, I can do this from any app I’m in, others can reply from any app they are in, we are updated from the app of our choosing, the thread lives at a central open place…again “we don’t have to think, we just act”.

As Dave Snowden says:

“Technology is a tool and like all tools it should fit your hand when you pick it up, you shouldn’t have to bio-re-engineer your hand to fit the tool”

We find we need an activityware tool at work, as our online communities are not so much for specific tasks, you need to be a member of the community, and you can’t really create them at your disposable for a small task. What we do use is email, or a forum, or a wiki, but an activity space brings the thread together, accepts various object types in the thread, and membership is not based on requirements outside of the task.

Google Wave

I haven’t seen the Google Wave videos, but from reading blog posts and screenshots I get the idea, here are some posts.

Wave is the future of the Enterprise
Could Google Wave Redefine Email and Web Communication?
Google Wave: A Complete Guide
The Top 6 Game-Changing Features of Google Wave
Google Wave: Google Tries to Reinvent Email
Twave: Google Wave + Twitter
Sergey Brin: Google Wave Will Set A New Benchmark For Interactivity
Live With The Google Wave Creators
Exclusive: Video Interview With The Google Wave Founders
Google Wave: The Full Video From Google IO
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.

Lotus Connections Activities

NOTE: this is part of a blog post I drafted 2 years ago but never got round to posting.

The paper Activity management as a Web service is focused on integration of various clients and using various clients to action things, and having it all managed in the Wax collaborative activity web service. The beauty of it is that when starting an activity you can go look for content where ever it lies and bring it into the system, like an activity gateway or portal page…this again reminds me of widgets of information from elsewhere, and the widget is dynamically updated at the same time as the original. Read the rest about the task flow features.

The above paper is related to another article, Beyond predictable workflows: Enhancing productivity in artful business processes, which also explains the two ends of the specturum, using email for collaborative activities is clunky and not contextual, and using a centralised workflow system is to rigid and is not flexible to encompass the intricate flavours of all situations, there is calling to allow room for “artful processes” and a requirement is the “democratization of process”. Moving from here are more people focused, community or group based systems that have a more flexible bottom up approach (this also has the bonus of allowing innovation to sprout).

The most relevant paper would be, Activity Explorer: Activity-centric collaboration from research to product. The Activity-centric collaboration style:

It delves into the Activity Explorer client based on activity being a thread of objects.
An activity thread can start with any object (file, chat, screenshot, etc…), someone may be notified by their prefered alert mechanism (also a current area of study about attention delivery, alert, urgency, etc…), this person will reply to the thread with any object, automatically notifying the original person and so on.

The power is that you can collaborate in real-time or asynchronously within the activity, it becomes a shared thread that harnesses different object types, all without needing a meeting or entering a dedicated group share tool.

Their example, just shows how simple it can be to initiate and action an activity (task) in one simple thread with multiple people without even having to be f2f, and by using a combination of external tools integrated into the one simple display screen.

Here’s the brief on the scenario:

NOTE: to create a new object in the thread, you just right click on the previous object

1. Celine starts a new activity by dragging a file into Susan’s name
2. Celine adds a 2nd object (via a right-click on the 1st object); this 2nd object is a message note asking for Susan’s comments
3. Susan is alerted via her systems tray, clicking it takes her to the thread
4. Celine sees Susan is reading the message via an online presence indicator on that object
5. Celine clicks on the message object and initiates a 3rd object being a chat (popping up a box on Susan’s screen)
“Celine wants to clarify about an image detail in the file”
6. Celine creates a a 4th object being a shared snapshot (popping up a snapshot on Susan’s screen)
7. They annotate the image in real-time (like a whiteboard)
8. They invite their boss, Ming, into the chat (popping up a box on Ming’s screen)
- Ming has only got access to the chat object and the shared snapshot object
and so on…

As you can see this diverts or the lessens cognitive stress of deciding which tool to use to start and action a task. A discussion may start on chat, and then be moved to email, and then to some kind of groupware…and it’s not always easy to move information from system to system. Another benefit is information pertaining to the activity is already organised into one thread or view as a result of the process.

From the paper:

“…a single collaborative activity is often managed with multiple collaboration tools and technologies at different levels of formality. These can include e-mail, chat, wikis […] This diversity means that people must monitor and participate in multiple shared venues, spreading their attention and their effort across multiple media. Even if they succeed at this context management task, they still face the difficulty of having to determine the scale of any new collaborative activity in order to select the best medium.”

“The technical goal of activity-centric collaboration is to bridge these gaps of rigidity and tool boundaries by horizontally integrating different collaboration tools and technologies through the concept of a work activity.”

The Activity Explorer is further referred to in the paper, Business activity patterns: A new model for collaborative business applications.

Another great paper about creating more flexible processes is, Ethnographic study of collaborative knowledge work.

As you can see IBM are right into communication and collaboration processes based around people and tool flexibility and bringing all this together in one interface full of connected components, instead of a centralised top down system.

The Clipper Group has a review on the whole Lotus Connections Suite.

Last year, The Connections Blog posted about one of Luis Suarez’s email detox posts, which references my post on re-purposing email.

Related posts:

Activity-Based Computing
Activity-Based Computing
Lotus Connections Activities Demo Video
Activity-based Computing Moves Forward at Lotus Connections
Comprehensive Tour of Lotus Connections
Activities in Connections 2.0
When disaster strikes, create an Activity!
Using Activities to plan your Lotusphere Session

Complements social networks

What I like about all this, is that it complements social networks. I use the network to find profiles (beehive) and read up on people (their microblog, blog, bookmarks, CoPs, etc.), or maybe they are already a contact, then I invite them into my activity. I wonder what move Google will take towards networks, maybe Google Profiles, I do have my Gmail contacts, but I need to go to their space and see what their all about, at the moment this is ruled by Friendfeed, Facebook, LinkedIn.

I guess why I call this middlespace/ware is that you have groupware like Communities of Practice, then you have social networks, and I find ad-hoc activity spaces somewhere in the middle. So I guess this is related to my post, How relevant are communities of practice in a network age?.

As I mentioned earlier this middlespace or activity collaboration is paralleling with the move to a role based organisation where we are connected in social networks and assemble together for activities and disband.

Where does workstreamr come into all this.

NOTE: to clear something up with another way the term “activity” is being used of late. The Facebook newsfeed has been dubbed an “activity feed” as it feeds you the latest on what people you are following have published on their profiles and elsewhere, and what other actions they have been doing in the network, what their friends have been commenting on their profiles, as well as stuff done to you (notifications).

Poll Everywhere + Twitter - A polling form where the audience can tweet their answer, and the widget embedded into your blog, website or online doc will display the current progress…great for live audience presentations (using Twitter in PowerPoint)

TwitVid - just like Twitpic share’s a link to a photo in your tweet and hosts it at their site, TwitVid does the same for video, also see Tweetube…and Twitmatic will serve you up the latest.

TwitDoc - upload a file to Twitter, also see Tweetafile…I’m thinking like Twitpic and TwitVid, these should be hosted at a Scribd like service.

Mixero - A client that has some great features - create groups, channels, and filtering. If you ask me Filttr already does all this - filter slide for tweeps, black/white list words, create groups, create keyword streams, it also has automatic filtering based on your past behaviour, and a mobile version. My favourite filter is creating a group, then filtering that with a a few keywords, and then filtering that again to just show me tweets that have links in them.
For other filtering sites see peoplebrowsr, TweetGrid, Monittor, ConvoMonitor, JustSignal, Twalala, microplaza, and Ginx. [via RWW]

BONUS
Union Organizers Twitter Bombing Starbucks #top3percent Campaign
HappyTweets

twtbizcard - from the folks at twtapps…you can now create a virtual business card, and send it to someone eg @elusa here’s one of my cards to keep in touch #twtbizcard
It also keeps track of sent and received cards, and tweets and retweets…only the people you send it to can read the details

twitmatic - search and watch video’s being linked to in Twitter.

hoodlenow - yet another site which displays tweets by location, so you can know what’s happening around town, see more under the groupings section in this post.

tagth.is - tweet @tagthis with a link and keywords, and that link will be bookmarked in delicious. I prefer this to Tweecious which automatically bookmarks every tweet that has a link. But what I really want is a button in my favourite Twitter sites like dabr and filttr to send a tweet to delicious

BONUS
Twitter Reaches New Heights As Climber Tweets From Everest

twitwoop - speech to text tweets…maybe now we can tweet while we drive

Twitoaster - threads reply tweets to your tweet. This is what I referred to in my post the other day. On our reply tweets we have a link to the tweet we are replying to, but on the original tweet we don’t have a list of replies (similar to comments on a blog). But this is even better, for each tweet you have the replies, just like blog post comments, but if one of those replies has replies of it’s own, then they too will have those tweets threaded…so it becomes a tree like conversation. Here’s an example.
You will also notice each tweet has its own RSS feed (at the moment it’s not promoted as it’s an experimental feature, but you will find it by the browsers auto-discovery feature), here’s my RSS feed for the example above (basically, just add “/feed” at the end of the URL.) This means you can subscribe to the feed of a conversation. Twitoaster has more features, go check it out.

Twonvo - similar to Twitoaster, enter a Tweet URL and view all the replies, similar to viewing comments on a blog

Twitterel - find Twitter users with related interests

BONUS
The city where every arrest gets Twittered