Comments on: Seesmic for business

By: dah

dah — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:31:47 +0000

Hey Jeremy – don’t take so seriously. My thinking isn’t particularly advanced. I’m an enterprisey guy so we tend to look a bit hard at things but I’ll say my thinking isn’t very advanced right now so…

Those interested might like to check out the questions I raised at SAP’s Developer Community: https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/8384

By: Jeremy Vaught

Jeremy Vaught — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:10:47 +0000

Ok, you are right, you said nothing about vision. But you did say “the developers are scratching their heads for a business case.” So I’m just saying, I’m not a developer of Seesmic, and I didn’t see much immediate business use. So I was looking for thoughts from everyone else, and am honored to have both you and Chris responding.

As for being sensitive, well, my role with Seesmic is a non-standard one… all I do is blog for them. I don’t get much insight into the day-to-day, so I just don’t want my boss’ at Seesmic to say, “Why are you saying that our developers are scratching their heads as to what to do with Seesmic in business.” or something to that effect. I’m just putting it out there.

Cheers!
Jeremy Vaught

By: dah

dah — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:35:49 +0000

Hey Chris – what a great set of ideas. Keep ‘em coming. Sorry to miscast you – happens to me all the time.

Yes – behind the firewall is critical for most but that doesn’t necessarily imply ‘closed’

By: Chris Brogan...

Chris Brogan... — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:47:50 +0000

In B2B, Seesmic could be used to survey data centers, to give quick spot checks on remote projects, for status messaging (like quick meeting updates), and for those tons of times where we’re caught saying to someone, “I can’t really explain it,” like when we had a seal problem on the roof between our data center and our main office space. (Turns out the term I didn’t know in construction lingo was “fishmouthing.”)

I’m not a marketer, exactly. I’m a former engineer/architect who talks about marketing and/or consumer stuff. : )

I imagine medical could have a lot of use for this behind their firewall.

By: dah

dah — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:35:30 +0000

aaw – don’t be so sensitive. Did I say anything about vision?

By: Jeremy Vaught

Jeremy Vaught — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:44:02 +0000

Allow me to clarify a bit. One thing I do with the blog is engage the Seesmic community. So me asking about business uses is just me asking the question because I’m engaging you. And that part worked, you have fine answers. Just don’t mistake what I said for Seesmic as a whole having a lack of vision. What I said are my thoughts.

Thanks for reading the blog though And thanks for contributing. I certainly look forward to hearing more from you in the future.

Jeremy Vaught