In Leading After a Layoff, I recommend that you avoid status meetings in which your team members sit in a room and wait for their turn to talk, while you sit at the head of the table and collect status. This is largely a waste of time (and the “communication” that occurs rarely justifies it.)
Instead, you can replace status meetings with short emails, or even a microblogging service. Twitter is one microblogging service, but it is too public. Now there is a solution.
Yammer is a microblogging service that groups people from the same company together so they can see each other’s updates. Then you can create a subgroup for your team and use the service to gather status.
The folks at Lifehacker have a nice post on Yammer.
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Another option.. Use a RSS feed system. There are many out there, that allow you to subscribe (and some are automatic based on your company credentials) so that you are automaticallly notified via a push technology.
The problem with most microblogging system, I have to go to the site to get the info.. Pull technologies tend to fall in the long run for that reason