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Comment on CNN Enterprise Twitter Post

by Laura Fitton on August 14, 2008

Below is the comment I wrote on the @adamlashinsky and @padmasree post “Another view on Twitter”

Not only do ideas get stronger when shared, but working relationships, mutual support, motivation, collaboration, etc. also explode.

One reason “microsharing” is so powerful is that it oddly mimics the dynamics of how natural human relationships form. Oblique interactions, gradual knowing, discovery of common interests and other social objects build trust and connect minds together in surprisingly powerful ways.

And by the way, I’m not too worried about what the “intended” uses of Twitter were, because I see dozens and dozens of “unintended” uses becoming deceptively powerful and helpful in people’s everyday lives.

What consistently creates professional and personal value for people on Twitter are some of the very oldest principles of success. Things like building your professional network, harnessing the power loose ties, surrounding yourself with successful people, finding mentors and collaborators, conferring on best solutions/practices, interacting socially as well as professionally (Twitter as golf course), etc.

Building personal caring and affinity between co-workers is an important part of creating a productive business culture. Microsharing has the potential to boost that and unlock some pretty compelling business value through a number of use cases (the most compelling of which we may not even know yet).

These slides are from my recent keynote on the topic at Jive software’s enterprise UI/UX Summit in Aspen: http://www.slideshare.net/pistachio/uiux-aspen-jive (see thumbnails in the post just prior to this…)

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Woo Hoo! A DIY Embryonic Brainsieve

June 4, 2008

This is awesome because if you know me, you KNOW I don’t know a G-D thing about developing, coding or, for that matter, following directions.
YET,
Using NewsGator Editor’s Desk (they are a client) I just hacked together a very awkward-looking but interesting little widget AND made it into a Facebook application. It’s an ugly* little [...]

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Lecturing Today at Bentley College

April 28, 2008

I am lecturing twice today at Bentley College in Waltham, MA for Professor Mark Frydenberg’s IT101 course: Introduction to Information Technology. Mark is extraordinary in the degree to which he incorporates, teaches and uses web 2.0 tools (wikis, blogging, popfly mashups) in his class.
The morning class was delightful and of course, we live streamed [...]

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Community and Your Business as a Social Object

April 7, 2008

Community, duh, equals people with things in Common. Those things in common are what Hugh McLeod at Gapingvoid has been calling social objects.
Apple’s lack of “social media” efforts have been widely criticized, BUT. Who has arguably the strongest cult, err, community following of any technology company going? Oh yeah. Right.
They did it by creating things [...]

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Storytelling, Scaling and the “Shared Items” Experience of SXSW

March 14, 2008

I rely on “shared items” feeds in my RSS reader. I “subscribe” to hundreds more feeds than I can follow and a firehose of ideas pours through every day. Shared items allow friends to highlight the “best of” their reading experiences and stream out little personal “highlight reels” from all the material they happen to [...]

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Twitter Tools Wishlist

January 6, 2008

(aka: Tools for Parsing Your Twitter Idea Farm)
Here are some Twitter applications I’d LOVE to use. The more I think about how friggin powerful Twitter has been in my life, the more I want to be able to dig back into Twitter streams and scoop out potentially useful chunks.
Do any of these tools exist already? [...]

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Communities Make it Stronger Faster Better

January 2, 2008

Amazon Gets Into MMO-Powered Crowdsourcing – GigaOM
I found this really interesting. Amazon, whose tools for surfacing, associating and recommending content (products) fascinate me, is pulling in incentives from the MMOG world to encourage its “experts” community to assist other shoppers.
To me Amazon is way ahead of other players in establishing and developing the kind of [...]

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