Twitter functionality in the intranet system
February 18th, 2009 by Nigel Davies
I was really pleased today to review functionality produced by a developer for one of our American clients, that provides Twitter functionality, but with images as well with the most recent tweets displayed wherever the client requests.
What was particularly interesting?
- This was produced for a client that has an extended community out on the road and wanted to engage with them via the intranet. So it was a real business need, and not a pointless embracing of web 2.0 functionality with no business foundation.
- It took the developer a very short time indeed to produce the required application and component.
- The API was perfect – the developer needed no assistance from the core team.
- The result is very pleasing aesthetically – as the designer can work completely independently from the developer.
Most importantly it demonstrates exactly the vision of Claromentis – a commercially supported framework that can be extended to meet bespoke business needs by the open source community, or any PHP developers on a commercial basis.
Excellent!
It’s a very simple but functional application that took very little time to create. As a result of this application, the intranet for this company has now been opened to an extended audience, and encourages participation from a group of employees who otherwise would have been very unlikely to have been involved in the intranet at all!!
This is a great example to all.