Donna FitzgeraldI was looking for something on the web. I think it was tips on how to be better organized if you’re right brained and think stack technology refers to the tower of papers on your desk. Anyway I ultimately ended up somewhere else entirely and saw something I actually thought might be useful to my fellow program managers. Foamee (http://foamee.com/ ) is a twitter app that lets you send somebody a tweet to say “thanks and I owe you a beer or a coffee”. While I normally wouldn’t recommend saying thank you in a twitter, what appealed to me about the app is that it will remind you to pay up. The web site keeps a record of who you owe and you actually have to put in a note that you paid off to clear the “debt”
Whether or not this is the right technology, I have to say I found the fact that I could send a project team member an atta boy or atta girl and then actually make sure that I took the time to take them out for coffee, rather appealing. In my experience the personal attention of a busy program manager can mean more to a team member than the more common $25 gift certificate.
Of course forgetting who you owe a coffee or a beer to might only be a problem for those of us who are right brained but since that was how I found the link in the first place it just seemed rather serendipitous.
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Category: Program Management Technology Tags: Program Management, Twitter
