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Asia Digital Map » Blog Archive » Much Ado About Twitter — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:47:33 +0000

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By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:42:54 +0000

I often go back and forth on the value of social media versus real life. In so many ways, to get engaged through social media is easier, but doing so in real life is more meaningful. Thanks for the reminder!

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By: Adam Salamon

Adam Salamon — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:54:28 +0000

Glad to hear that you’re getting tangible benefits from Twitter.

To your point on in-person networking: In all honesty, I hate the term networking. First, it doesn’t really work. It’s a lot of time spent with very little honest return. The reason I added Philanthropy and “getting things done” to the list, is that those activities actually create real lasting relationships. They take a relationship on a journey so at the end, you’ve had experiences together.

I’m glad to hear you are using Twitter the way you are. I’m interested to hear about how that progresses.

Thanks for the comments, Beverly!

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Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:08:11 +0000

[...] @danschawbel. Dan is an expert on personal branding and social media with many accolades to his credit. His site The Personal Branding Blog has many useful insights on how to go about getting where you want to be. We all have great ideas right? Dan shares tips on how to get aligned with your goals. BTW: One of my favorite articles is his discussion about Twitter. [...]

By: Jurgen Wolff

Jurgen Wolff — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:24:00 +0000

you mean actually DO something? What a concept! Re Twitter well as broadening the range of meaningful ideas coming your way, it’s also broadening the range of meaningless ideas coming your way–and pretty soon the huge barrage of unwanted marketing messages coming your way.

By: June Cleaver

June Cleaver — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:08:05 +0000

Hey Dan, I actually FOUND you via twitter. Other than that, I’ve so far find little measurable use for twitter other than for those that either are: already a famous name or brand., already part of an established community, or, already have a real life social network of friends that actually DO USE twitter.

I personally resisted participating on it – because none of my friends have time to “tweet” all day – or a big name brand. So the whole notion of twitter seemed to me a huge time waste. But because so many advocated using it- I figured I couldn’t shrug it off without some first hand knowledge.

Well, granted there are many VERY smart and talented folks on twitter -but having now some first hand experience on twitter – it really does feel like OVER communication; information overload.

And the idea of finding “followers” frankly sounds annoying. Who really wants to unless they are pushing an agenda? So while I see the benefit of twitter, I don’t see it as the course of action that will yield the biggest ROI (time wise) in the immediate for anyone starting up anything.

But I am glad I found your twitter page (by accident actually!) – I did leave you a “tweet” and wanted to let you know I’ll be keeping an eye on your blog here.

By: Jacob Share

Jacob Share — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:14:06 +0000

Mike- nice idea for Tweetdeck. I imagine that most of the people you know are ones that you knew before you were on Twitter, so it’s not their reflex to nudge you there. What do you think?

Adam- what I take away from this thought-provoker is that, easy as it is, people shouldn’t ignore networking offline. Too true.

By: Beverly Macy

Beverly Macy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:41:38 +0000

Adam,
Thanks for the great post. I agree with you on in-person networking and glad to see you added philanthropy to the list. Volunteering around a social issue with other passionate people is not only a great feeling but a good way to expand your connections and “do well while doing good”.

I do also agree with you that it is a misnomer to think that because your chatting away on Twitter you are therefore “connected”. However, I’ve found that in a relatively short period of time my network has extended and been enhanced because of Twitter. An example is the upcoming event I am co-hosting at the UCLA Faculty Center with Rodney Rumford. Our speaker base and industry partner base was greatly expanded by the presence of @gravitysummit on Twitter. It’s been fascinating to see the virtual translate into the real world. We’ll keep you posted on how it all turns out!