amit kothari

A lovely set of drawers at Big Blue Sky

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:51:40 +0000

A lovely set of drawers at Big Blue Sky

Dinner this evening

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:29:51 +0100

Dinner this evening

My talk at the Atlassian London User Group - Kew Gardens

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:55:57 +0100

Very epic

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:19:25 +0000

Very epic

Headshift in Las Vegas!

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:39:00 +0000

Headshift in Las Vegas!

"With Don Quixote, Cervantes has accomplished an enduring act of literary alchemy: just as Quixote is..."

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:26:50 +0000

“With Don Quixote, Cervantes has accomplished an enduring act of literary alchemy: just as Quixote is combined with Sancho, so is fantasy combined with reality, the eternal with the everyday, and like the combination of matter and anti-matter, the explosion of aesthetic power is, in magnitude, infinite, propelling readers from the earth—at first facing inward at what was left behind on the page, then, forgetting the earth, outward into meaning—farther and farther toward the dream-like stars.”

- From a review of Don Quixote.

Having memories of Pembrokeshire this year. Here’s to an...

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:49:02 +0000

Having memories of Pembrokeshire this year. Here’s to an amazing 2011!

Business Verbs in Social Software

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:16:00 +0100

What if we can provide activity triggers and updates which use the natural language of everyday business in social software suites? Forget liking, disliking, bookmarking and all these foreign sounding words. Imagine an activity feed which uses business verbs, gathered implicitly or explicitly from pointing, clicking and typing. I came up with this concept a while ago, and I believe it’s one of the best ways for social software to relate to everyday work.

For each of these verbs - picture the use case for an employee in their day-to-day role. They can trigger, move between and do more with verbs, such as string verbs together in a workflow. For example - a blog post/wiki pages leads to someone “facilitating it” and then subsequent “commenting” and possible “reviewing” leading to a “conclusion” by the original facilitator. All from just a wiki page (or any URL) which had no states or wasn’t geared up for being the subject of a business-like discussion.

* edited

Standard functionality in most suites.

* commented

Standard functionality in most suites.

* responded

Responding needs a target i.e. someone was the target for a response. Hence a way to create this situation is to elicit a response from someone by “sending them content X for response”. Done through a toolbar gizmo - “send to colleague and ask for response”.

* acknowledged

This is achieved as a formal delivery receipt. The sharing process could additionally specify a click needed for acknowledgment.

* supported

This is interesting. Essentially, it is a “thumbs up” in a business sense, nicely done for content which requires consensus. A button on the toolbar, like a thumbs up would create an activity item “John supported X” to your network or to everyone.

* facilitated

A nice way for an individual to host a discussion. We could take a piece of content, such as a wiki page or blog post (the discussion surface) - and allow someone to say “I’m facilitating this”. The next step in this workflow is to invite comments and discussion using another verb - sharing that piece of content with colleagues. Through all cases, that piece of content would have a marker that notes that an individual is facilitating that specific discussion. A quasi-authoritative discussion format online is therefore created - the basics of business use.

* concluded

A verb available if you are facilitating a piece of content. You may post a conclusion to participants that you originally invited and mark any content (wherever it is) as concluded with a result. The toolbar gives you the button if you can do this and injects into your feed and the feeds of discussion members - individual scope since your network doesn’t need to know.

* reviewed

A button similar to acknowledgement, with the added benefit of a text box or more that supplies review details to your network feed. Reviews can be made public, in which case any person arriving at that piece of content sees a marker stating that “a review exists for this page”

* mark for approval

A directed verb which is triggered from the toolbar - you direct this action at someone else. Only your individual feeds are involved.

* approved

Follows “mark for approval” above.

* mark for action

Mark a piece of content for action by someone else or by yourself. A private, directed verb. A text box states what the action is on that piece of content.

* delegated

Usually the result of an action. If a piece of content results in a “mark of action” - you may press another button which appears in that context to delegate the action.

The next part is putting the implicit data together into a scope, where that will be most useful. Scopes are:

* user-only (personal)

* group (possibly for a team)

* network (for my connections)

* global (everyone)

* executive (possible some highly aggregated CxO focused data)

For each verb, we must decide the scope of activity injection.

El Cuartito

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:28:30 +0100

El Cuartito

“A picture of a face just using numbers” by Amit:...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:52:58 +0100

“A picture of a face just using numbers” by Amit:

And The most-random-post-it-given-to-Emily-Webber-today award goes to…

"Provider Service, Brokerage Service, Assurance Service, Exchange Service, Market Service, Insurance..."

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:14:05 +0100

“Provider Service,
Brokerage Service,
Assurance Service,
Exchange Service,
Market Service,
Insurance Service,
Support Service”

- Noted this definition of pretty much any commoditized services business from this excellent talk by Simon Wardley at OSCON 2010

Excellent handwriting at baker street tube

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:55:00 +0100

Excellent handwriting at baker street tube

Memories

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:04:29 +0100

Memories

On my Flickr Faves

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:58:04 +0100

On my Flickr Faves

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:20:32 +0100

Family Matters Cast Photo:

Video

Thu, 27 May 2010 16:37:04 +0100

"To be or not to be– that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings..."

Thu, 20 May 2010 15:42:00 +0100

“To be or not to be– that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles; And, by opposing, end them.”

- A reminder of this eternal quote from Hamlet by Shakespeare via Miranda Man at work

great vid

Thu, 20 May 2010 12:19:18 +0100

great vid

Video

Thu, 20 May 2010 10:35:34 +0100

Yes

Tue, 04 May 2010 23:30:19 +0100

Majorly digging my new 27 inch iMac. Even Spotify - which isn’t even about the screen is looking wow and glory.

amit kothari

A lovely set of drawers at Big Blue Sky

Dinner this evening

My talk at the Atlassian London User Group - Kew Gardens

Very epic

Headshift in Las Vegas!

"With Don Quixote, Cervantes has accomplished an enduring act of literary alchemy: just as Quixote is..."

Having memories of Pembrokeshire this year. Here’s to an...

Business Verbs in Social Software

El Cuartito

“A picture of a face just using numbers” by Amit:...

"Provider Service, Brokerage Service, Assurance Service, Exchange Service, Market Service, Insurance..."

Excellent handwriting at baker street tube

Memories

On my Flickr Faves

Family Matters Cast Photo: ©Getty Images/Warner Bros.

Video

"To be or not to be– that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings..."

great vid

Video

Yes