Placeshout is a nifty, minimalist way to share your restaurant and shopping discoveries.
Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind says stories will be increasingly important. Here’s Placeshout’s:
Sometimes, you just want a quick suggestion
When Andre and I are looking for a hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant or a park with a softball field, we usually just want a quick suggestion, not a lengthy review. We want to know if a place is worth visiting in 30 seconds.
Placeshout isn’t about volume - it’s about trying to express the positives and negatives of a destination in as few of words as possible. If people agree, that “shoutout” moves up…if they don’t, the shoutout moves down and begins to disappear.
We hope Placeshout makes it easier for you to find local destinations.
Placeshout is intuitive. As you may have read here before, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” This format could provide an easy on-ramp for organizations that are skittish about wikis.
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Hi Mr. Cross!
I referenced your website and book in a blog (kmiscommunication.wordpress.com) I am doing for my graduate studies in Knowledge Management at the University of Oklahoma. (By the way, I LOVE your blog.)
Your post on 9/23 about the placeshout WIKI caught my attention. It has been my assumption that WIKIs are too complicated and dry with facts, but this one looks FUN!–which translates into being USED!
In addition to maintaining a blog this semester for our Design and Implementation of Web-Based Information Services class with Dr. Betsy Van der Veer Martens, students are also to comment on a professional WIKI. I found the Internet Time wiki through your blog and would like permission to edit it in some way. Our assignment is to select a topic of interest to the wiki and make a significant contribution at a professional level.
At the August ICKM 2007 conference in Vienna, I presented a paper in which I developed a visual model of the moderating effect of emotional intelligence on dysfunctional mental models which in turn leads to improved interpersonal communication. Also, as the result of a finals question last semester, I have a developed a visual model for workflow of competitive intelligence based on a theory that Ben Gilad proposed.
Please email me at Michelle.C.Farabough-1@ou.edu, if you are so inclined to let me contribute to your WIKI.
Thanks!
Michelle
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