rename toots to ... anything

[chadwhitacre]

What was I thinking?

[chadwhitacre]

Or just drop it and integrate more tightly with Twitter? I'm so torn!

[ehmatthes]

I haven't used it yet, but something within gittip sounds useful. I never use features on one site that require broadcasting to external sites such as twitter and facebook.

I agree completely on the name change.

[DamosDaze]

Well the site is called gitTIP. How bout calling them hattips? ;)

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On Jun 25, 2013 10:25 AM, "Eric Matthes" [email protected] wrote:

I haven't used it yet, but something within gittip sounds useful. I never
use features on one site that require broadcasting to external sites such
as twitter and facebook.

I agree completely on the name change.

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[cattsmall]

Is the purpose of a toot supposed to be like tooting your own horn? Or a hattip like @DamosDaze suggests?

[chadwhitacre]

@cattsmall The purpose is to toot your own horn and the horns of others. It's a way to tell the rest of us about the awesome stuff you do, and a way for the rest of us to thank and encourage you.

[timothyfcook]

There's really two separate purposes here:

1. Let gittipees LOG their progress, so that supporters can see what they're working on.
2. Let supporters THANK folks working on great projects by leaving them some written encouragement. This could be in response to a recent LOG posting or as an isolated thread.

Example:
"The Gittip Team just launched the new Teams functions check it out here: https://medium.com/building-gittip"
In early talks, this function was supposed to enable a form of accountability, and a past/present/future log or portfolio of what folks are producing that is of value/interest to their gittip supporters.

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Here's an idea on some new language:

Just call it "The Book" or "Logbook" or just "Log"

Both parties (supporters and recipients) can "Write in The Book" or "Leave a Note". I also like the idea of supporters being able to give Heart-Coins (as a sort of +1) to recipients in response to their updates. I would Heart-Coin your recent update on adding the Team functionality.

Recipients can write a short log of a recent project; supporters can write encouraging thank you notes and Heart-Coin things.

Functionally it's kind of like a guestbook/mini-blog. It's not very different than Facebook's "Wall" although now, it seems, that the content of Horn (Book) postings are only viewable by the Horn's owner; that seems like fine logic moving forward, as long as the public can see that others have left notes/heart-coins.

Being able to see that others have encouraged/hearted something would make me feel good about supporting something/someone that sounds cool, if I don't know the person.

[chadwhitacre]

Or maybe we should just make it bone-simple and call it "Updates" and allow comments as our "thank you" outlet. I do like the heart-coin idea though.

[chadwhitacre]

This: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tipping_tooting.

[tshepang]

@whit537 great humor; thanks

[singpolyma]

I don't really see the point of this feature. Links to social media profiles you already have seems more productive.

[timothyfcook]

I think the feature has serious value; a feed of someone's twitter profile
could be full of all sorts of content. It seems important for Gittip
supporters to be able to have a consistent mini-news feed of projects that
people are working on that deserve Gittip support and/or work they've been
enabled to do because of Gittip support.

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[email protected]> wrote:

I don't really see the point of this feature. Links to social media
profiles you already have seems more productive.

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[mvdkleijn]

I think the "toot your own horn" idea as a way of providing simple updates to givers is nice.. I agree the name should be changed though. It feel unnecessarily self-promoting now... just updates is fine thanks.

@timothyfcook & @whit537 Please also see my issue #1323 where I suggest (amongst others) to have a pull in data from twitter based on a hash tag the receiver can set. (allowing for targeted tweets)

[chadwhitacre]

"Tooting one's own horns" is mentioned in this review of Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last.

[untitaker]

How about making it a comments section for profiles?

[untitaker]

Or renaming it to "{username} is making the world better by..."

[cakey]

My idea for the horn:

• Create connections between givers and receivers.
• Stay anonymous
• Reasons to use it over existing social platforms

I believe anonymous 'tip notes' are the way to do this. Each person who tips can leave an optional short message. This collection of messages is displayed prominently on the receivers profile. The collection creates a relationship, gives the receiver satisfaction and knowledge of what is being rewarded, and signals to the rest of the community the type of awesome work that the receiver is doing.

This serves as a solution to #1328 and improves #1323.

[chadwhitacre]

#1466