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The importance of and approach to Search in the BlueJean Time community #workvssocialnetworking #bigdata
Created by Solomon Thompson Jr Sat Oct 04 20:14:03 EDT 2014
<h3><em><img src="https://www.bluejeantime.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/G-_Bluejeantime_NewHomepage_PrivateProfile.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="80" /></em></h3> <h1>Global Feed Search</h1> <h1>WORK IN PROGRESS - VERY RAW NOW</h1> <p>BlueJean Time is a platform designed to enable humans to work online and deal with the concerns surrounding work:</p> <ul> <li>privacy</li> <li>brainstorming - decisions - plans - execution - tracking - auditing</li> <li>retrieval of content leveraging search and using naming conventions and filing/tagging approaches</li> </ul> <p>As such, BlueJean Time takes a different approach to search than seen on most social networking platforms.</p> <p>Working or running a business, or planning an event as an organization or team etc, has a specific set of concerns.  The issues of Privacy and of the workflow from concept to cash will be discussed elsewhere.  Here we're focused on handling and finding of content.</p> <p>In businesses or any ongoing group of two or more humans, there is a need to be able to store and retrieve information.  Business is about objectives, decisions, planning, executing and tracking progress not only for communication, collaboration and process improvement but also for compliance to regulations and dealing with legal concerns etc.</p> <p>Given the importance of retrieving information which may have been saved/posted yesterday or years before, there is a need to have a more robust search than what is provided by pushing information to you with feeds and notifications.  There is a need to leverage naming conventions and tagging approaches so that you can narrow down your search to exactly what you want vs what is most recent or popular.  These same concerns are faced by those who work in an office and have personal computers and file cabinets.  Items need to be tagged and stored in a structure enabling office staff trained in the conventions of the office to be able to file and retrieve information.</p> <p>Similarly, in the BlueJean Time virtual Place (which is very much like a physical office), a company can develop naming conventions and systems for filing information in a structure that enables easy retrieval by those properly trained. Instead of having paper files put in File Cabinets and folders for HR or Marketing or projects, BlueJean Time has a structure of Places which holds electronic files (File leftbar), and additionally, artifacts dealing with normal business process of brainstorming and producing work products (Topics), making decisions through voting (elections), and making plans out of the action items from meetings (Checklists) and scheduling of meetings (Calendar Events)... all of which are only known about by and accessible to the people who have been invited to be a part of the Place.  Most companies have multiple places which have members who have a need to know the contents of the place.  Pretty quickly as companies grow, the number of places explode (our company has over 30 places).</p> <p>So, how does one find a file, or a decision or a task assigned to them in this virtual world mirroring the complexity of our real world?</p> <p>BlueJean Time has developed a powerful search approach called the <em><strong>Global Feed Search</strong></em>.  To understand how it works, a little more needs to be said about the organization of information in this platform.</p> <p><img src="https://www.bluejeantime.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/GlobalFeedSearchPic.png" alt="" width="800" height="300" /></p> <p>As mentioned above ,the fundamental grouping of things (humans and artifacts) are done by PLACES.  A place contains work artifacts like topics, elections, checklists, calendar events and files.  Each human in the BlueJean Time Community is a member of at least one place (the BlueJean Time community which is public).  However, one can be a member of lots of places and as such have access to the information in each of these places.</p> <p>How does one find information across all of the places they are in?  A very powerful way, though not the only way, is through the Global Feed Search.</p> <p>First the Global Feed itself (similarly to News Feed from Facebook) gives you visibility to all of the creation and update events (like upload of tiles, creation of topics, elections, addition of comments...) going on in every place that you are a member of including the BlueJean Time community... since the inception of the Community and since you first joined the community and became a member of your first non-community place.</p> <p>So thousands of events are created every day and you have visibility into those, which based upon your place memberships, you should have access.  You can see them in the order of most recent on top.</p> <p>This is lots and lots of information... so here's why the Global Feed search is valuable.</p> <p>The Global Feed Search allows you to filter all of this information so can see exactly what you want to see.</p> <p><strong>Person</strong> - narrows the feed to who made the update to any artifact</p> <p><strong>Place</strong> - narrows the feed to only show activities in the Place or Room (both are the same in structure, they just differ in how created and slightly in user experience) specified in that search criteria field</p> <p><strong>Thing</strong> - let's you search for a specific artifact (like topic, checklist, election...) if you happen to remember a string that is in the name of the artifact</p> <p><strong>From</strong> - let's you pick a Date in the past so that you only see activity which occurred since that date</p> <p><strong>To</strong> - let's you pick a Date (if left blank will assume today) before which activities occurred</p> <p>So, if you don't remember the <strong>Place</strong>, you can just fill in the <strong>Thing</strong>.  If you don't remember the <strong>Thing</strong> or <strong>Place</strong> but remember that a particular <strong>Person</strong> provided content you seek then you can just put in their name in the <strong>Person</strong> entry field.  If you can't remember any of that but know if happened in June of 2013, because that was your birthday month then you can put <strong>From</strong> June 1st and <strong>To</strong> June 30th.  </p> <p><em><strong>This enables the ability to sift though huge amounts of data (buzz word BIGDATA) to find exactly what you seek!</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p> </p>


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