Use Case: Consolidating Activities from Multiple Services into Secondary Productivity-related Collections

Social Web Incubator Community Group,

Hello. I would like to share some quick ideas and a use case. The gist is: simplifying and automating the creation and publication a kind of "granular curriculum vitae" of daily productivity-related activities from multiple services (e.g., GitHub and Wikipedia), these items entirely separate — available in another tab — from end-users' traditional social-media posts. That is, end-users might want to be able to separate their traditional social-media items from their public, collaborative, productivity-related activities and contributions.

With respect to these services' user experiences, perhaps sites' settings and configurations, during-activity checkboxes, post-activity popup windows, or later item-based menuing systems could enable end-users to be able to easily express whether or not to: "send me a summary of or a quote of my completed activity from this service to my productivity-related collection on my social-media site or on my blog."

In theory, end-users could opt to configure services (e.g., GitHub or Wikipedia) to manually or automatically send certain types of their activities to named collections that they added and described, e.g., "Productivity", this perhaps resulting in the presentation of new menu or submenu option for sharing items from these services.

As considered, summaries of or quotes from end-users' activities from various interoperating services (e.g., GitHub or Wikipedia) would present hyperlinks to the services' websites, driving traffic to and encouraging collaboration on these services.

Thank you. I hope that these ideas and the use case are of some interest.


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski