Looking for a Twitter image for my class slides, I came across these. Let’s see, which ones ring most accurate?

and finally, one that feels like me around most of the people I know:

• Finally coming back online with a computer, and not just a BlackBerry. Mobile computing is good in a crunch, but not to rely on. #
• @krosenfeld I was falling asleep while pressing and ironing shirts late last night. #
• @krosenfeld I like to try public transit whenever I travel, and for all of our transit troubles in NY, the subway system is rather efficient #
• @krosenfeld Interestingly as well, mass transit is not class or status based, as I find in many other cities. Rather democratic, to be sure. #
• @coyenator Starting to wonder if there was a weekend in there someplace . . . #
• Looking forward to the #CP2tech01 conference call this afternoon. #
• Ate a Veggie Delight sandwich at Subway. Starting the week off healthily. #
• Working on notes for a project steering committee meeting this Thursday. #
• Joining the #cp2tech01 phone conference at the beginning of Week 3. #
• @abalone Wonderful. Just got onto the call. #
• @skydaddy yumm #
• Interesting way of introducing people on the #cp2tech01 call. Introduce yourself and mention which tool you most like or are challenged by. #
• #CP2tech01 I like WebCrossing and Twitter (of course). #
• #CP2tech01 call is discussing waving in different contexts. Feeling lost. Skype is breaking up and quite a challenge to listen to. #
• #CP2tech01 Not sure I understand the wave concept. Can’t see it. #
• #CP2tech01 Completely lost. Getting frustrated. Perhaps the workshop in general forgot all people cannot see the chat? #
• @shirleyearley Not quite addicted (me), rather I am amazed at its plethora of uses. #
• #CP2tech01 There are a lot of tools, and they can be a challenge if we are new to them. #
• @BronSt I think that is a good suggestion for NetVibes. I have an account, but do not know how to use it as you mentioned. #CP2tech01 #
• @CP2tech01 I think that it is easy to open accounts, but an entirely different thing to know what to do with them. #
• @abalone Yes; thank you. The challenge is when people say I will send this link or that one, or about muting, etc. #
• @abalone Is that listed / indexed on the wiki anyplace yet? #
• @derekcx Still no avatar pic? #
• @coyenator That is the case for nearly everybody I have spoken too. I wonder why that is the case that it happens only after prolonged use? #
• @shirleyearley Netvibes seems like a good choice for me. Just created a new account, as it was not very robust last year. #
• @CP2Tech01 I am not sure what igoogle tools are. #
• @CP2Tech01 Is igoogle the same as Google email or Google chat? #
• @BronST Where did you load that screenshot? #
• Have to leave to run to another meeting #CP2Tech01. Thank you for assistance all with translating the skype texts. #
• Final meeting at work and into the train. Tonight will finish my lessons for tomorrow’s Leadership course. #
• Want to use Twitter in the graduate Leadership class I begin teaching tomorrow night. Any ideas how? #
• @leelefever Oh, you love it, Lee! #
• @cindybrock Congrats, #
• @brlamb Vacation? #
• @BronSt Thank you. #
• @bdieu Thank you, Bee. So, just the normal Google apps then? #
• I shared the list of required and recommended texts for my Leadership class that begins tomorrow. Why do people rarely do this publicly? #

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I am teaching a Leadership class at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies that begins tomorrow. The course is an elective course in the Strategy and Leadership Concentration toward an M.S. in Management and Systems through the Management and Information Technology Program within the Division of Programs in Business.

While the course description is already online for anybody to see here, I thought instead I will lead by setting an example of sharing text references. Academics (and even scholar-practitioners, which is a title I use for my own work) do not easily and publicly share what materials they are using for a certain course, so I thought I will share my required and recommended texts, specifically to assist others who may be building such a leadership course for the first time and are looking for appropriate texts.

Required:

• Bass, B. M. & Riggio, R. E. (2006). Transformational Leadership (2^nd ed.). Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. ISBN 0805847626
• Collins, J. (2001). Good to Great. New York: Collins. ISBN 0066620996
• Northouse, P. G. (2007). Leadership: Theory and Practice (4^th ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. ISBN 141294161X

Recommended:

• Kouzes, J. M. & Posner, B. Z. (2007). The Leadership Challenge (4^th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 0787984914
• Marquardt, M. J. (2005). Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions By Knowing What To Ask. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0787977462

I am expecting great things from my students in this course, and expect to share a bit about the experience between here and Twitter.

• $62.00 for gas. In New Jersey (the cheap gas capital), no less! #
• Heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see a few shows that are about to close. #
• Heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see a few shows that are about to close. #
• The subways are such a mess on the weekends. #
• Having a drink on the Met’s roof, enjoying the Jeff Koons’ sculptures. #
• Took lots of pics at the museum and in Central Park with the new camera. Hope I did them right. #
• Bus driver on the M3 just yelled at the passengers to move back. Cannot be an easy job. #
• Doing some laundry I forgot to take with me this weekend. #

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• Still very wet outside, though the sun is out and it is warming up. #
• Have a vet appointment this morning for annual shots and a check-up. Enjoying coffee until then. #
• Doing laundry and about to vacuum. #
• Washer and dryer finally got adjusted. Hurray; I can do my own laundry now! #
• Tool cool and damp today to mow the lawn. First mow of the year will need to wait. #
• Making stuffed shells for dinner. Walking the dogs first. #
• Strange to not have Internet access over the weekend, outside of my BlackBerry. #

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• Took today off as a vacation day. Wish the weather were nicer, but a still nice to have some time to myself. #
• @dougsymington Thank you, Doug. Will remember that for the next time there is a Twitter issue like this. #
• @eich0041 You have never had meetings where the focus was to schedule other meetings, too??!! #
• @eich0041 I know, as a researcher you conduct research for the purpose of more research! #

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• Attending an Effective Meetings training session all day. As my day is filled with meetings, perhaps it may help. #
• What happened to the Next button to see previous Tweets? #
• Chocolate chocolate cookies for dessert. Should attend training every day! #
• Seen in the PATH station at 33rd St.: Automatic External Defibrilator. Who would have imagined that there? #

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Will the useful and interactive Twitter applications never stop? Thanks to the wonderful Twitterholics website, I just discovered TweetWheel.

This online application analyzes all of the followers we have and then identifies which of them in turn follow one another. In other words, this visually shows relationships between those people I follow. Bring the cursor over each name, and colored lines appear that link them to one another based on their relationships. While some relationships I know, a number of them were a surprise.  As followers and relationships are dynamic while the TweetWheel takes a snapshot in time, you may want to generate this repeatedly. One word of caution, depending on the number of people you follow, this can take some time. As I have recently added a number of new people I follow (from the Connected Futures CP2tech01 workshop), this program helps me understand those people’s relationships a little better.

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What community-building or other uses can you imagine for this?

• @kanter ts Go, SuperBeth! #
• The woman in front of me in line at the coffee cart was surprised when the man told her they only take cash; no credit cards. WTF?! #
• Having difficulties accessing NYU research databases from my work this morning. #
• Attending a #cp2tech01 workshop field trip in the Ciaris community http://www.ciaris.org #
• @smithjd Thank you, John. As I am attending the #cp2tech01 vai phone calls and not skype, I at times feel not as much a participant. #
• @cp2tech We should brainstorm how to visually represent people who attend teleconferences from different locations (phone, skype, etc.). #
• @cp2tech Twitter is a wonderful back channel for some of these communication issues. #
• Trying to understand CIARIS’ mission against "social exclusion." That seems somewhat broad; am not sure if I am reading it right. #cp2tech01 #
• @smithjd John, I cannot find the RSS feed again. Can it be on the front page for ease of access? #cp2tech01 #
• @maniactive If only we can be so lucky. For the coffee cart, they do not even have electricity! #
• @abalone Thank you for the link. I wonder if some of my confusion is that there does not seem to be anything similar in the US? #cp2tech01 #
• @phdaisy Yuck. That is a means of last resort. Can’t you use Outlook itself? I know I can for my university email. #
• @abalone Not now, still trying to understand this. Rich lesson in cross-cultural applications of social issues and CoP. #cp2tech01 #
• @BronSt Bron being a tough timekeeper! You would fit well with my internal project workgroups! #
• @socialthing Can we help test? #
• @abalone Who was busted - me or you? #
• @maniactive They are indeed a hard working crew of two who are set up quite early. #
• @abalone Me?!?! Not multitasking; think of it instead as working to capacity. #
• @abalone Inspiration for blogging comes from all over the place http://tinyurl.com/6gc365 #cp2tech01. #
• Attending the #cp2tech01 field trip with Webheads in Action. #
• @socialthing Very cool. Thank you! #
• @abalone Thank you! @CP2Tech01 #CP2Tech01 #
• @cp2tech01 RRRRRRR; are muted again. Those participating on the teleconference but NOT on skype are challenged with participating. #
• @Currie @bdieu and @abalone — thank you for helping to intermediate between skype and Twitter (pure teleconference) #CP2tech01 #
• @cp2tech01 What is the "pub aspect" mentioned on the field trip? #
• @etheoreal Much appreciated #cp2tech01 #
• @abalone Not sure if that really helps . . .
  #CP2tech01 #
• @abalone Exellent. Thank you! @CP2Tech01 #
• @CP2Tech01 QUESTION about Webheads, to follow up with @Currie - Webheads seems so decentralized; how can it still be considered a community? #
• @BronSt Thank you for asking my question! #
• @BronSt I suppose I am having trouble wrapping my mind over what this is. #cp2tech01 #
• @BronSt I think that usually there is a central web site with references to the other technologies to "ground" the community #cp2tech01 #
• @susny Interesting, Sus. How do people know where to look for these folks? #cp2tech01 #
• @injenuity Do share . . . #
• @cp2tech01 My headphone is muted! #
• @cp2tech01 I just signed up for the Webheads Yahoo group; awaiting approval. Good start #cp2tech01 #
• Going to a faculty workshop on graduate program student grading. Anybody have any grading horror stories to share? #

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