Day: May 15, 2008

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-05-15

  • Working on a presentation I have to give in June. #
  • Had a wonderful traditional English dinner. Baked beans over toast with cheese. #
  • Listening to "Quantas sabedes amar (Martin Codax 13th Century)" on the album Danzas Medievales Españolas. #
  • Switching to "Quantas Sabedes Amare Amigo" by Ensemble Alcatraz. I love Medieval music. #
  • Wow, John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama http://tinyurl.com/6erkfm #
  • Reviewing the results of the Critical Incident Questionnaire from my class last night. #
  • @butwait Night, Shelley. #
  • If I failed as often as Twitter http://tinyurl.com/67ksgr, I would not get paid. Hey, we don’t pay for Twitter, do we? #
  • Still thinking about NetVibes after the wonderful discussion with @etheoreal and @BronSt. Hope colleagues in #cp2tech01 can also share. #
  • @coyenator I studied and sang Gregorian Chant while doing a graduate degree. Still chant the Rorate Coeli when nobody can hear. #
  • @abenamer Mr. Popularity! #
  • @coyenator Do you mean like a keyword search on just a single page that is already open? #
  • @nattynato Welcome to the Twitterverse! Why do you think Twitter is being explored in the context of leadership? #
  • @rlk300 So, any additional thoughts about using Twitter? #
  • I have been thinking about how Twitter use is changing communication itself. Leadership opportunities and needs abound! #
  • @betsyweber Ouch. Have been through all of that, with the second one being the most unpleasent. The best for you all. #
  • @jimgroom Are you here in NYC now, without meeting me for a drink or snack??? #
  • @ChrisRicca They seem to avoid mine when I out them out. The ones I encounter seem to be more devious. #
  • @pinoyboy Very true about that. Just remember, the wearer was not your mom! #
  • @nattynato What kind of coding? #
  • Going for a walk out at lunch. Nice to clear the mind and senses. #
  • @sgance I just overpaid and underenjoyed a latte. #
  • @RobinYap That worked once to get me into an office and out of a cube farm. #
  • @ChrisRicca Why would you want to get them off? I thought you just threw it into the trash chute? #
  • @jimgroom Here’s looking at you, kid. Let me know. #
  • California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban http://tinyurl.com/4mzyj8 #
  • @maniactive Switch to Verizon Wireless. They only bother you if you do not pay! #
  • @jfeo Welcome to the Twitterverse! #
  • Brutal project meetings today. #
  • Working on case studies in class. #

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Twitter in Business Week & in My Graduate Leadership Class

I have been saying for some time now that Twitter is one of those phenomena that come along from time to time that changes the very way we communicate. It does not allow us simply one more way of doing what we have been doing. Instead, it alters communication itself.

Those of us who Tweet often think and share and communicate and interact differently from before we started with the application.

I used the example in my graduate Leadership class on Tuesday night, “How many of you have cell phones?” Yes, all their hands raised. What surprised me was my follow-up, “How many of you do not have land-lines at home?” Half raised their hands. HALF! In only a few short years the importance and modality and paradigm of using a phone has changed, and in the process our connectivity and expectations and ways of communicating have changed as well.

Business Week seems to be leaning in this direction as well with their article in this week’s issue. Those of us who have been using Twitter find our ways of interacting different as well.

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Case in point. I Tweeted on Tuesday night, in my graduate Leadership class, while I was demonstrating Twitter. I sent a Tweet and asked anybody out there to say hello to my class. I received 5 replies from friends and colleagues around the world who were reading Twitter and sent their greetings and encouragement in return. FIVE people. Unscheduled. Unplanned. Real-time. Try communicating to a group in any other medium and getting a response back so quickly. The speed of information exchange, idea development, collaboration, and our very approach to communication itself is now put on its head.

Where is leadership in all this? I think the question is more along the lines of new possibilities for leadership in ways we never considered. With communication increasingly flat, the sky is the limit.

Do you agree with my assessment?