In my last blog post I stated that I was just starting to use Twitter, a useful text messaging tool. I must admit that it amazes me at how many people are following me – WOW!! If you are not a Twitter, yet….you receive email alerts informing you who has signed up to follow you regarding a particular topic. The topic can be any subject or person, just anything. Some people who follow me I know, and others I haven’t a clue about.
One business friend, Dana Doody from The Expo Group, sent an email saying “Hi Joyce — You better jump in there and update.” The pressure is on. So as I continue my learning curve on this topic I am looking for advice on how to effectively use Twitter.
Now I have been contacted by the EventVue folks (www.eventvue.com) and they have a service that aggregates the Tweets and blogs from conference attendees. Last week EventVue was a part of DEMOFall08, a technology conference in San Diego. This morning I talked with Rob Johnson of EventVue and he was telling me that the feedback he was getting from the conference attendees was great. Now there were a few who thought the “conversation” was too much. Rob used the term”extra noise” to describe the volume of Tweets happening at the conference. I guess the amount a Tweets a conference attendee must filter through could be tremendous, compared to a normal day.
This technology tool, like many before it, has absolute advocates who understand it and for whom it has become indispensable. Then there are “newbie’s” who are trying to catch up and all the “noise” is something we embrace or we get off of the train.
Please feel free to enlighten me on how you are using Twitter in your business routine – what has been effective for you?
Now to be totally fair Plaxo and LinkedIn, other social media groups, have a feature very similar to Twitter which you can use to keep your network informed on what you are doing.
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