Wiki Wednesday
I went to the Wiki Wednesday meetup this evening.
What an interesting evening...some really engaged and smart practitioners of social software, and I met (and re-met) some great people, including a few Rebooters.
I quickly demoed ThinkFold for five minutes (I took a photo of the group, you can see this above), and talked about the history of outliners. Got a good reception, I think.
This is the second time I've shown it to a 'random' group, and I get about 10-15% of the audience come up to me and are incredibly enthusiastic, and want the app right now. I heard a lot of "that's exactly how I think" and "that's what we need to collaborate in our company, now".
This level of enthusiasm fits in with my entirely unscientific hunch that ThinkFold will be heavily used and evangelised by 'hub users' - the 1 or 2 people in every 10 that really push their ideas and act as a social and idea collaboration hub. ThinkFold really appeals to those guys, and our aim is to support them and make it really simple for them to share their ideas and plans in those groups.
Another really interesting response from a few people was that ThinkFold's node structure and locking of nodes during realtime collaborating, is how 'wikis should work' when more than one person is editing a page.
I'm a big wiki fan (I've installed them in companies) and can see exactly what they mean, although I'd regard ThinkFold as the 'idea generation' tool that's used to collaborate on ideas and then publish them into wiki, word, public outlines, etc. but it's a really interesting idea that they raised.