And this brings me to the point of this post. Within 20 minutes of my first Twitter message I got a call from a Comcast executive in Philadelphia who wanted to know how he could help. He said he monitors Twitter and blogs to get an understanding of what people are saying about Comcast, and so he saw the discussion break out around my messages.
This is definetly interesting and a way that business needs to be looking in from above, below and side to side - to what people are saying about them.
Networking effectiveness starts with a positive personal attitude and an understanding that successful networking is built on a spirit of giving and sharing and not of bargaining and keeping score.
I love the last line in the quote above. It’s like, dude…if you’re networking simply to see how many connections you can get, please! But if you look at networking as a conversation and a relationship - it can be more sucessful or at least more fruitful.
I think of it like all these guys (Robert Scoble and Jason Calacanus) who try and see how many Twitter followers they can aquire or facebook friends. (And I understand they are looking at more as marketing than networking.) But they are definitely not engaging people in two-way conversation, they cannot keep up if 10,000 Twiiter-fans and facebook friends are asking for help.
I think of it as more art than science myself, but there are definitely formulas to success.
Source: WikipediaI love forums - and really they have been around forever. (Pre-internet is forever you know.) But I am really frustrated that there has been very little innovation in the area. Why s that?
Do they (forums) really not matter anymore? It seems like they were one of the first conversations to happen on the web. They pre-date IM and basically allow a “real-time” chat. (Its really close to realtime, you would refresh for new comments.)
I wonder if forums will evolve - or will they become obsolete via other technology. Wiki’s are great, but they don’t offer the conversation forums do. Twitter has the real time feel and conversation, but it is hard to archive and search the good information later.
So what is next? I’m not sure - although I’m not going to make it to the Web 2.0 conference in San Fran this year - I’m hoping to send the challenge along with a friend to pop it into a birds-of-feather session.
Twitter is cool…so Jason and I are experimenting with an idea called SuperTweets.
We put together a simple site which uses a feed from Twitter (aggregated by TweetScan) and displays the results. Please stop by and take a look and see if your post is up - just add @supertweets to your Twitter post.
The concept was used by Politweets to track political coverage and we thought it would be an interesting way to analyze the game and commercials in real time.
Microblogging continues to prove an interesting medium and we hope this is a worthy example too!
This was a interesting post I found at contentious.com the other day about a concept Amy calls “Tweetups“
A few days ago, it occurred to me that it might be nice if there was an online tool or service that would facilitate local “tweetups” (informal, spontaneous gatherings of local Twitter users). Right now, tweetups start when one person in a town or city proposes one — like: “How about a Tweetup at The Cup in downtown Boulder this afternoon, 2pm?”
This is a great way to find people near you and put together a quick unconference of sorts…cool.
That’s the hard lesson learned by veteran GOP political strategist Ed Rollins, who was repeatedly flummoxed in a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace, who hectored him about a conversation he had that was transcribed and sent to a TownHall.com blog by the one other person in the restaurant.
It still gets hard to leverage all of these items when the rubber hits the road - good stuff!
Patrick Ruffini blogged on Dec. 19th that he was shaking things up a bit - “Twittering Iowa“
I would like to launch an experiment with Twitter on Iowa Caucus night. If you’re caucusing in Iowa on January 3rd, sign up for Twitter, make sure you have the mobile feature turned on for the night, and send a Twitter a text message with your caucus location and the results in 140 characters or less. If possible, please send your message from inside the caucus location as the vote totals are being announced. Make sure your tweet contains the word “caucus” or is prefixed “@IowaCaucus” so we’ll pick it up at the account we have designated for this purpose. We’ll be tabulating the results and providing a real-time tally of our totals in the Republican and Democratic Caucuses.
Wow - I have emailed this to my com padres at gazetteonline.com - I think they are going to pull the twitter feed into their caucus site.
Most of what I share about how to blog I’ve learned by doing, usually by trial and error. The same can be said as it applies to growing traffic to my blogs over the years.
“I was a little late to the game on Twitter, but it’s quickly becoming my favorite social network, and represents the best of what I think is the power of Web 2.0. Despite all the ‘exciting’ news about Facebook over the last 36 hours, I have to admit, I’m experiencing a bit of Facebook fatigue.”
I found both of these articles interesting - what I really like is it appears people are really trying to figure out Web 2.0 - not just going with the flow.
Image from Wikipedia
around my messages.
