Avatar Theme Days Are A Fun Way To Increase Microblogging Adoption
September 15 2010 08:30:00 AM
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 | Yesterday one of our developers changed his profile picture to Blinky, the red ghost from Pac-Man. This sparked a series of updates from other people (I'm DigDug) and a fun conversation ensued. While this may not be "business-related" it did result in good team camaraderie, which is especially nice in a distributed team. Similar events happen on the open-web, where people change their photos for a specific cause, to celebrate a holiday or to support their favourite sports team. I remember when everyone became a Japanese manga character, Simpson-ized themselves (site is down), or created 1960s/70s/80s yearbook photos. The point being, these are all social actions. They get people involved, talking and sharing. Microblogging is a great medium for participation and as more people inside your organization become comfortable with the tools, you will start to achieve greater business value. So what theme-days do you want to have? |
Very cool! I would guess some photos may be inappropriately based on the organization's guidelines but here ate some themes to think about:
- pets
- family
- fav super hero
- fav The Office character
- fav vacation place
- dream place to go and never been
- fav cartoon
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Hey Luis. Thanks for the response. What was really cool about our old school video game theme was how fast it spread throughout the company.