Common Challenge

Now, I have decided to really immerse in all social trends on the web. That means I just got an account on… twitter(!). Ok, I know I’m a bit behind, but this is (kind of) my point. Do we (social web-apps developers) really have to use everything that is on top right now? Do we have to set up an account in the just-released-so-hot-new-service? Because it definitely takes more time than an average web-worker can afford.

The answer, as one of my university professors usually said, is probably same as always: It depends. For instance, in our team of 3, I’m the one responsible for (among making coffee, running with papers and other super-important stuff) marketing & PR (whoaa - do we need PR? - yes we do). That means reading tons of blog posts, twitts and other junk every day. But it’s supposed to be 2 way communication, if it’s to cause us any good, so I also have to get to know some people. And Twitter is one of the places I can stalk them (yea!) and communicate with them (haven’t figured that one out yet…). For instance, Robert Scoble is following me on twitter 9 minutes after I started following him - maybe if I shout loud enough he’ll hear me and mention us in one of his posts (no, I’m not naive enough to think it’ll work this way, it’s just a rhetorical figure).

The conclusion: I don’t know if Twitter will work for us, but as web entrepreneurs we have to BE on the social web, not JUST work there - if we want to be heard. And for me it means setting tons more of accounts and trying services I (sometimes) think are complete rubbish.

And BTW, you can follow me on Twitter HERE>>.

Update:

I also set up an account on Blip.pl, polish clone of Twitter. You can stalk me here.

It took me a long time to write this post. 99% of this time was thinking how to do it the best possible way. 1% was actually doing it. Without this 1% it wouldn’t be possible for you to read this post, which would make the whole effort pointless. It’s quite an often thing, that just 1% of what you do makes the whole thing matter. Which doesn’t make the other 99% any less important.

So much for an introduction
Even though this post is coming out in march ‘08, and it says: The art of the start, it doesn’t mean we’re just beginning. In fact - we’re half-way done.
We started around 6 months ago with some ideas, plenty of energy and a bit of free lunch-time. We knew we wanted to make important products. Things that will really bring value to our customers. Things that will improve lives. 
It may sound big. And it is. Some of our ideas are dead simple. Some are so complicated even we still don’t understand what they’re actually going to do But all are going to influence the way users live and work. That’s our basic goal.

The topic is not accidental - a title of a book by Guy Kawasaki. We seem to do a lot of reading and we constantly learn, which can be important for you, as we will test some theories in practice, and will post our experiences on this blog.

So this blog is going to be about Dooyt (obviously - more on it soon), management (business, time, project) and at last but not least - starting up

Make sure you come back, at least once a week.

Dooyt is a simple project created out of passion for self development, self management, achievements and doing things together (hence ‘Common Challenge’ in the name of our blog). Dooyt is also a Common Challenge of three guys connected by a similiar vision: improving their (life and work) environment step by step with their projects. You will find more and more precise information about what Dooyt is and what it will become in the near future. But this is just a short ‘about’ note - more info will show up on our blog Stay tuned!

In the meantime we encourage everyone to sign up for the upcomming beta tests of our project at www.dooyt.com.

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