http://www.eakes.org/65/reply-all-micro-groups/ Software Engineering, Social Technology, Product Design Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:07:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.eakes.org/65/reply-all-micro-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-20 berbels Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:42:13 +0000 http://www.eakes.org/?p=65#comment-20 This is reminds me of the 'email group' listings in address books. At first pass, an email group appears to be useful in keeping track of subsets of comrades. It allows you one click contact to the 5 person "early morning coffee" group or the 20 person "late evening drinks" group. However, unless a user constantly updates and maintains the list, it rapidly becomes invalid as social group members migrate. This renders the 'email group' list invalid and unlike the Reply-All Micro-Group, that group maintains presence in the address book. As far as I can see that serves two functions; the first being to take up space and give the user more information to discount when searching for valid groups and individuals. The second being a snapshot in time- a type of a quick memory jog "remember when we had Thursday beer nights". Or in my case "remember when we had Saturday playgroup". This is reminds me of the ‘email group’ listings in address books. At first pass, an email group appears to be useful in keeping track of subsets of comrades. It allows you one click contact to the 5 person “early morning coffee” group or the 20 person “late evening drinks” group. However, unless a user constantly updates and maintains the list, it rapidly becomes invalid as social group members migrate. This renders the ‘email group’ list invalid and unlike the Reply-All Micro-Group, that group maintains presence in the address book.
As far as I can see that serves two functions; the first being to take up space and give the user more information to discount when searching for valid groups and individuals. The second being a snapshot in time- a type of a quick memory jog “remember when we had Thursday beer nights”. Or in my case “remember when we had Saturday playgroup”.

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