🎉 BWAMP by FullStory - Your Team's New Remote for Remote (Video Call) Participation

I ugly laughed for 15 solid minutes on the all hands meeting when BWAMP was first unveiled. 15,040/10

Back in March when the team at FullStory went fully remote, the company's weekly all-hands became a 200+ person Google Meet. And it took on a whole new quality: Silence. - “Can you see my screen?” 🦗 (Silence.) - “Many thanks to Rachel for her support on this project.” 🦗 (Silence.) Normally, all-hands meetings meant that a sizable, live audience cheered on presenters, toasted co-workers, and laughed at funny asides—normal stuff everyone takes for granted when you're physically next to your coworkers. Thankfully, the enterprising devs and designers at FullStory had an idea—a silly, simple idea to create a second channel for visual and audible audience feedback: BWAMP! 🎉🎉🎉 Build a live channel for audience feedback that could be used with any video calling service. That way, anyone could log in to BWAMP.me and engage with other BWAMPers logged in—to react, engage, and participate in new and fun ways in large team meetings! With 👏, 🎉, 🐴, ✨, 😂 (and more surprises), everyone might participate in the action, even at a distance, even when muted. Now it's: - “Can you see my screen?” 👍 ("Yes!"). - “Many thanks to Rachel for her support on this project.” 🍻🥂 ("Clink!"). - And so on. I experienced firsthand the power of BWAMP. Quirky and fun, BWAMP engages the audience in a whole new way. You cheer. You laugh. You sparkle and clink. And if you have a team meeting with more than, say, 10 people, set aside that ice breaker—give BWAMP a try. Go BWAMP 🎉 your hearts out. 😻 — P.S. Though I'm no longer at FullStory (now at MURAL!), I'm thrilled to see this hilarious bit of FullStory culture (finally!) released into the wild for anyone and everyone, love it or hate it. Read more about BWAMP at FullStory's engineering blog: https://bionic.fullstory.com/bwamp/

I'm so excited that BWAMP is out in the world now. It has been a beloved tool at FullStory for quite some time in various formats. When the full FullStory team began quarantining we found we had so many video conference calls where we wanted to be able to cheer or toast or give a thumbs up or down but negotiating mute and not talking over one another is just honestly really hard. Scott B and Adam took Bwamp and turned it into the amazing tool hunted here today. You just open BWAMP up in a separate window and any teammates that want to hear bwamps log in as well. This keeps the conference call audio nice and clean but, if desired, you can hear and give feedback in the form of bwamps of all kinds. As Scott B Explains on our engineering blog Bionic, "BWAMP is a separate feedback channel that runs alongside video meetings. Now, the audience will be able to participate directly (and instantly) with vital feedback to the speaker: applause, laughter, clinking glasses, or (of course) bwamps! Cheerful noises and floating emoji bubbles make BWAMP an audio+visual experience. “Can you see my screen?” 👍 ("Yes!"). “Many thanks to Rachel for her support on this project.” 🍻🥂 ("Clink!"). And so on. Listen and watch to see which members of your team are engaged. Just don't BWAMP too loudly while your friends are speaking, or somebody may try to revoke your BWAMP privileges. And don't forget that volume slider if things get too noisy!"

“Bwamping” was one of my favorite FullStoryisms. Love that this is available now!

So glad to see that BWAMP is now available to the web at large! This tool makes large, all-hands meetings more fun and engaging. My favorite BWAMP is: ✨ Thank you @justin0wings for unleashing the BWAMP!

My heart grew 3x sizes the first time I used BWAMP. 😍

Wow! I felt the same as the girl on the first video when I talked aloud and all were silent. So, we'll try it :D