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Get A Room! – Why Campfire Rocks

Jason Sendelbach, Wednesday, March 18, 2009 @ 9:38 am

Campfire, a group chat program, allows teams to have chat rooms, and search the old chat content.  I used campfire about a year ago, right before we were going live on a project.  I hated it. Here's why:

• There were about 6 of us in the room, and we were all pairing on different activities.  I kept on having to check back into the room on things I really didn't care about.  I found that as soon as my pair and I finished a task, we had to scroll through pages of chat to get caught up on the details of the other pairs' activities.
• It was a web client, so I had to actively poll for updates.
• It seemed to detract time from my already busy schedule.
• We were all rushing to finish up things for go live, and it was a new program to the team.  Perhaps if we had used it all along, it may have been more useful

We recently started using it on the current project that I'm managing.  I now love it.  Here's why:

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