Flowdock has been designed to be the best group messenger in the world, but it can be so much more. We’ve previously covered using tags to abolish the barrier of reporting bugs, and now I’ll show how you can make your team act as a single unit in tracking, creating, molding, protecting and generally managing your brand.
Flowdock allows your team to react to everything with zero delay. You can pipe anything into Flowdock’s Influx as RSS feeds, tweets or emails. Here’s a couple of things we’ve found immensely useful in tracking our brands. You should try them out.
Add Twitter tracking for your brand
This is basic functionality of Influx in Flowdock.
1. Go to Influx and select sources from the top right
2. Choose the Twitter tab and add your brands as Twitter searches
3. React with zero delay
Add Google Alerts for your brand
1. Go to Google Alerts and add alerts (RSS) with your brand names as search terms
Choose “Feed” in the “Deliver to” selection.
2. Copy the alert’s feed address from Google Alerts
3. Add the feed to Influx through the sources dialog
4. See what the internet says about your brand, and discuss it in Flowdock
Flowdock is completely real-time, and so will your team be once you start using it.