Take a tour

Statusnet is a microblogging tool. Companies can use it to keep each other informed of what you are working on. You can consider it as a private Twitter/Facebook.

This page describes how a company employee can use a private StatusNet installation.

Let's start

Yes, I am curious, tell me how I can start!

Register

Register yourself and follow the guidelines below

• nickname: enter your first name (remove spaces and punctuation)
• email: enter your corporate email address

The homepage is shown.

Enter a message

Enter your first message (also called 'notice') in the textarea at the top: describe what are you currently working on.

• If your message contains a keyword, then add a hash tag ('#') before the word. For example: "updating the #usermanual for our #android app"

Reply to a message

You can also react on a message of someone else:

Find a message of a colleague, and click on the 'reply' button. (the 2nd icon)

Add you reaction in the textarea, and click on Send.

Your message is added to the public timeline (so it is visible for everyone). At the end of the message you see a link 'in context'. Click on it, to the threaded discussion.

Click on the logo in the top left to return to the homepage.

Join a team

Most of you are part of several teams; official teams (for example IT dept, helpdesk, management) or unofficial teams (guys on the 1st floor, employees living in Amsterdam).

Click on 'Groups' (at the left menu) and see if you belong to one of these groups.

If you have found a team, join the team by clicking on the 'Join' button next to that team.

Find messages with the same topic

When you use hash tags (#) in your message to mark a keyword, those keywords become a hyperlink. If you click on it, you will see all messages that contain the same keyword.

Click on a keyword of someone else's message. Now you see all messages with the same hash tag.

Click on the logo in the top left to return to the homepage.

Mark a message as favourite

Some messages are not very interesting for you, but others might be very interesting. You can indicate this, so then you can find them easily the next week for example. Or to help colleagues to filter the messages that were interesting to others.

Find a message that is interesting for you. Click on the 'favor' button (the first icon, with the heart). The message is added to your favorites.

Now go to the link 'Personal' (you can find it at the top of the page), and then on the menu item 'Favorites' (at the left side of the page). Here you will find all your favored messages.

You can also see a list of messages favored by others. Go to the home page, and have a look at the panel with Popular Notices.

Advanced usage

Wow, I can handle more, so tell me some more advanced features!

Enter a direct notice

Your first notice is visible for everybody. But you can also send a notice to 1 person. This is called a 'direct notice'. Tell someone (in the example below we use someone named 'admin' ) that you like statusnet:

Go to the textarea, and enter 'd admin ' plus a personal message, for example 'I like #statusnet!'

So start your message with 'd' + space + username, for a direct notice.

Send a notice to a group

You can also address a group. Send a message to the lunch team:

Go to the textarea and enter '!lunchteam I prefer #bio and #fairtrade products, such as <your favourite bread topping>'.

So start your message with '!' + group name, for a group message.

Use an other client

You can use the website to view and enter messages. But you can also use a standalone application. See also apps.

Windows

download and install from http://status.net/desktop

Linux

Pino

Pino is easily installable for Fedora:

yum install pino

• Go to Preferences > Account, Add
  • Service: 'other'
  • login: your statusnet username
  • API proxy or other service: <url_of_your_statusnet>/api/

Gwibber

You can download it from http://gwibber.com/

• Go to Edit > Accounts
  • Click Add...
  • Choose StatusNet from the dropdown and click Add
  • domain: <url_of_your_statusnet>