Tagged with: Backstory • networking • Social Media • twitter
Some people still wonder how Twitter can be useful. Short 140 character messages about what you had for lunch. Hmph!
Although I got some great lunch suggestions from the Twitterverse, this is not why I find it useful. Hal Macomber explained microblogging as being able to stick your head out of your cubicle and ask: “Does anyone know something about XYZ?”
In June I visited the Best Practice Showcase in London, an event for programme and project management. Before I went (by ferry, taking the long and slow way; don’t ask) I sent a message through Twitter if anyone was going to be there and wanted to drink some coffee. I was able to connect with great people at the event without having to be an Awkward Business Card Ninja and approaching Total Strangers with “How do you like the event so far?”
Sticking my head out of my cubicle into the Twitterverse and asking: “Does anyone go to XYZ?”
With Lindsay Scott from Arras People.
Read the fabulous blog “How to Manage a Camel“.
With Sarah Lockey from SasLockey.com
Read her new and fresh blog on Project Management and stuff.
Business card ninjas can be cool and social, but I wonder if your pre-announcement let you connect more successfully with those you met. I would think so.
Absolutely, Diwant. There is so much you don’t have to explain or clarify this way.