Twitter for project managers

Another mini series of blogs on a topic for project managers – enjoy the four parter on Twitter

Social Media has grown. Facebook is the communication method of choice for some groups of people. Foursquare tells you where people often are. Some counties or age groups use it a lot, for others it is only common in some sectors. Twitter.com carries the news from the spot as it happens and commentary from conferences and events in just 140 characters.

To get the best from Twitter you need to build a network of contacts to “follow”. These are people or organisations who give you useful information or who you hold online conversations. There are also tools that will tell you what the world or your part of it are posting about (tweeting) by looking at these trending topics, you may discover others who tweet the sorts of things that interest you.

In your main Twitter account settings, you have a choice to make your account private. That means you can choose if you allow others to follow you and see your posts. I am not convinced of the practical use of these. While Twitter has a pretty good record of defending it’s data, nothing you post onto a public site, even behind a privacy wall, is truly private any longer. I compare it to having a changing room in a big store that has salon doors – there is some protection of your modesty but it is not truly private.

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