Comments on: Do You Twitter For Work? http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/ Exploring The Intersections Of Technology and Society Fri, 25 May 2012 20:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: antoniocapo http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24017 antoniocapo Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:06:15 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/#comment-24017 I have meetings all day. Many projects to manage. I collaborate with New York, Saint Louis, Boston, Chicago, China, Japan, Italy, UK, Germany, Australia and others. My life is fast. I twitter.<br><br>I went into facebook and it worked for a while. Now it is too slow.<br>My friends and co-workers have @ symbols either before or after their names. I take breaks. I clear my thoughts. I get ideas. I meet my co-workers in corporate offices and my @friends at unconferences.<br><br>I am not attached to a location. I am attached to a business objective. I need tools. Fast tools. Mobile tools. Reliable tools. Good ideas. Better processes. I twitter. I have meetings all day. Many projects to manage. I collaborate with New York, Saint Louis, Boston, Chicago, China, Japan, Italy, UK, Germany, Australia and others. My life is fast. I twitter.

I went into facebook and it worked for a while. Now it is too slow.
My friends and co-workers have @ symbols either before or after their names. I take breaks. I clear my thoughts. I get ideas. I meet my co-workers in corporate offices and my @friends at unconferences.

I am not attached to a location. I am attached to a business objective. I need tools. Fast tools. Mobile tools. Reliable tools. Good ideas. Better processes. I twitter.

]]> By: Jordan http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24016 Jordan Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:46:13 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/#comment-24016 I use Twitter to follow people in my industry that I know and/or respect. I've found it to be a great way to keep up with the buzz and conversations taking place, oftentimes behind the scenes, and I find useful bits of information there. Much of my time at work is spent researching new media and online marketing-specifically for nonprofits - and there are a ton of conversations happening in Twitter that I don't catch in other spaces. I use Twitter to follow people in my industry that I know and/or respect. I've found it to be a great way to keep up with the buzz and conversations taking place, oftentimes behind the scenes, and I find useful bits of information there. Much of my time at work is spent researching new media and online marketing-specifically for nonprofits – and there are a ton of conversations happening in Twitter that I don't catch in other spaces.

]]> By: Akela Talamasca http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24015 Akela Talamasca Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:37:27 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/#comment-24015 I use Twitter in a work context to tweet the URLs of blogposts I write for <a href="http://Massively.com">Massively.com</a>. Consequently, I've picked up a lot of new readers just from my follower list alone, and my followers also engage in word-of-mouth advertising for the site. Win! I use Twitter in a work context to tweet the URLs of blogposts I write for Massively.com. Consequently, I've picked up a lot of new readers just from my follower list alone, and my followers also engage in word-of-mouth advertising for the site. Win!

]]> By: Nick Schmidt http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24013 Nick Schmidt Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:21:15 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/#comment-24013 hmm.. I think businesses simply don't understand.Although twitter limits how much you can say. Sometimes you need more info in a business situation.<br><br>but people like us use Twitter for networking,marketing, and follow friends.<br><br>You could use it for a business, just only follow people who you actually work for and only allow people from work to know your twitter.. There that is a simple way to make it work. That wasn't hard.. hmm.. I think businesses simply don't understand.Although twitter limits how much you can say. Sometimes you need more info in a business situation.

but people like us use Twitter for networking,marketing, and follow friends.

You could use it for a business, just only follow people who you actually work for and only allow people from work to know your twitter.. There that is a simple way to make it work. That wasn't hard..

]]> By: Ed Bennett http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24014 Ed Bennett Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:09:37 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/#comment-24014 I am yet to see twitter being used in a truely worthwhile way. It's just too immediate, also no one really updates them often enought for them to be accurate and when you are working in such small time spans they need to be constantly updated. All my friends who use twitter are commit to it for about 1 week then it just become used for jokes, 'I'm going to the toilet' so on. I think twitter will fade into obscuraity in about 2 years. I am yet to see twitter being used in a truely worthwhile way. It's just too immediate, also no one really updates them often enought for them to be accurate and when you are working in such small time spans they need to be constantly updated. All my friends who use twitter are commit to it for about 1 week then it just become used for jokes, 'I'm going to the toilet' so on. I think twitter will fade into obscuraity in about 2 years.

]]> By: sbspalding http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24012 sbspalding Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:10:14 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/#comment-24012 I can't agree with you more about the "real world" thing. I guess my question breaks into two.<br><br>Is it that businesses simply don't understand that things like Twitter can have legitimate, professional uses (they lump them in with Facebook/Myspace as "time wasters)<br><br>OR<br><br>Is it that tech people like ourselves are trying too hard to fit a square peg into a round hole? Is Twitter actually a waste of time that we continually try to pretty up to look like a "conversation tool"? I can't agree with you more about the “real world” thing. I guess my question breaks into two.

Is it that businesses simply don't understand that things like Twitter can have legitimate, professional uses (they lump them in with Facebook/Myspace as “time wasters)

OR

Is it that tech people like ourselves are trying too hard to fit a square peg into a round hole? Is Twitter actually a waste of time that we continually try to pretty up to look like a “conversation tool”?

]]> By: Nick Schmidt http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/comment-page-1/#comment-24011 Nick Schmidt Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:02:31 +0000 http://howtosplitanatom.com/questions/do-you-twitter-for-work/#comment-24011 Interesting. I don't think the "real world" has gotten to know the power of twitter and stuff like it. However it seems that the people you talked to about this issue are "techies". Meaning they are up to date with what is going on in the internet industry.<br><br>As a majority I think the business world doesn't like twitter at all. They think it is just another time waster. It could be and its fun, but bottom line, they just don't understand it. <br><br> For instance. I'm using the public free wifi at the Indiana University hospital in Indy right now and Twitter is blocked. So for some reason it is a big problem in some peoples eyes still.<br><br>Thank god for cellphone with internet & text messaging so I can update my twitter. Interesting. I don't think the “real world” has gotten to know the power of twitter and stuff like it. However it seems that the people you talked to about this issue are “techies”. Meaning they are up to date with what is going on in the internet industry.

As a majority I think the business world doesn't like twitter at all. They think it is just another time waster. It could be and its fun, but bottom line, they just don't understand it.

For instance. I'm using the public free wifi at the Indiana University hospital in Indy right now and Twitter is blocked. So for some reason it is a big problem in some peoples eyes still.

Thank god for cellphone with internet & text messaging so I can update my twitter.

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