Workstreaming – The New Facetime
Anne Zelenka over at Web Worker Daily has a post about the ‘new’ facetime. Do you use this technique at work to project the ‘look of being busy’? If you do, you now have a new tool called ‘workstreaming’. If you’ve ever sent an e-mail to your boss at 11:00 PM to let him or her know how hard you are working, you’ve used workstreaming.
Anne says that workstreaming is:
producing an RSS feed of all the bits and pieces of your online self in date-time order. But lifestreaming incorporates everything from the personal to the professional to the trivial, while workstreaming is only about showing what you’ve just accomplished, what you’re working on now, and what you’re planning to do in the future.
The benefits of workstreaming include satisfying your boss (or client) that you’re making regular progress towards shared goals, notifying team members of your status in case it affects their work, and even giving yourself a sense of accomplishment and progress. Because it’s oriented to what you’re producing and doing and not just about how much time you’re spending on it, workstreaming isn’t so burdensome and misguided as face time requirements. However, workstreaming could certainly be manipulated to give the illusion you’re working when you’re not.
I KNEW there was a really practical way to use all this new technology!
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