Installed TweetDeck and started following #socialmedia yesterday, inspired by watching Kate Buck use TweetDeck in a hallway of BlogWorld last week (thanks Kate for the private crash course!). Within a few minutes, the stream of tweets suggested several interesting directions of investigation. About 1/4 of tweets hashtagged #socialmedia look interesting to me – much better than I thought it would be!
Watching the flow of tweets suggest as many paths of exploration, I feel the limits of my own personal filters and an urge to widen them: I don’t understand that tweet, what am I missing?
Some of the tweets are annoying (why should I care if XYZ joined such or such group? Or please don’t sell my your stuff so directly…), but fairly easy to recognize and skip. Some of the messages repeat themselves from time to time and it’s OK, it makes me feel like I’ve been around for a while.
I feel I’m monitoring the world of social media in real time and it’s pretty cool. Tweets lead to blogs, blogs lead to sites, and sites lead to books. The whole domain opens itself very easily.
October 22, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Thanks for being such a great student… If you would like to continue our to chat, once you’ve had time to process and digest, feel free to connect with me!