Ultimate feedback loop for bloggers...

Following up on my last blog post...  I started wondering last week if process savvy people in the work place were the same at home.  I was thinking about this when doing the recycling duties, i.e. avoiding to put garbage in the recycling bin and vice versa... 

There is a corrolation for me.  Then I thougth wouldn't it be nice to ask arround?  Then I found this little free instant survey tool... What do you say?

Feedback loop for bloggers...

Jason's recent posts made me found out about this new feedback thingy "Reaction" that Blogger is offering. Combined with Google Analytics this is probably the ultimate feedback loop tool for bloggers that I have seen so far. 

I just turned it on on my blog.  Of course, comments are interesting an very welcome but they may be intimidating to some readers.  Ticking a check box is not as engaging but does provide valuable feedback to the blogger.  

To turn the "reactions" feature on, simply go to your template and edit the layout of your post item.   When you read a post with this, send feedback to the author, I am sure they will appreciate. 

Tasks in Gmail!

Finally!  This is a premature post because since I have not played with it very much yet but in case you did not notice that it was added recently, now you know!

The one sad thing is I have not found a way to import from RTM... That's going to be annoying... Hang on... Google API... Mmm nothing there yet... 

This is to my knowledge one of the key feature that was missing to the "Google way" to email...

ProjectTools part of the InfoWorld 2008 Top 100 IT Innovative Products

What a nice way to start the day! Yesterday Macadamian was awarded one of the top 100 company that have made use of technology to enhance their business.

Somewhere back in 2004 we started to be concerned by the effort that was required to be effective at project startup, monitoring and status reporting.

We envisionned that it would be a real challenge to provision all our projects with the apprioriate knowledge management technologies and to monitor them with consistency.

With now more than 100 projects starting and ending every year we can say thanks to this early vision. Needless to say that the pressure at being efficient and predictable was high and this is still an important concern at Macadamian.

"Let's automate all that". Our concern for efficiency and predictability gave birth to what we called Project Tools. What is Project Tools?

Project Tool is a software product that aims at:

1. Automating the innitiation of our project's knowledge management infrastructure (KMI). All tools needed for our projects are ready to go in no time (issue tracking, wiki, source control, mailing list, news groups, SFTP, continuous integration, IRC, etc...)
   
2. Managing access control towards all system of the KMI
3. Collecting projects progression metrics.
4. Reporting objective information on progression.
   

It is outside the scope of this blog post to go deeper about what it is, how it works and so on.

Today I want to say kuddos to everyone who contributed to this project.

Thanks to you Francois, Pierre, Benoit, Sebastien, Jake, Jimmy, Richard, Rafy, Karen & Irina. It would not have been possible to achieve this without you.

Last but not least, this award would not exists without Teresa who submitted ProjectTools to InfoWorld. Thanks to you!