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Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by Erin

Erin — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:35:09 +0000

Such an interesting debate, and I dig your stance. Ever since I started tweeting on behalf of my company (@t3thinktank), my personal feed has been suffering, as I post most of the good stuff on the company’s feed.

Just another juice COW (Can Of Worms) in the social media saga. I love it.

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“Technology Graveyard” « The Hil Street Journal — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:37:27 +0000

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Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by Jeff Buterbaugh

Jeff Buterbaugh — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:10:32 +0000

Deirdre,

While I enjoy following colleagues’ “hybrid” twitter accounts I think there are many good reasons to maintain separate personal and business accounts. My Facebook friends are my friends, and while I discuss my NI life there I also discuss politics and religion there. I suspect I might lose some twitter followers on my “business” accounts if I maintained a single list of contacts.

I think what we agree on is that even a “business” twitter account should be personal in nature, and provide insight into the personality, humor, etc. of the author.

My basic (tentative) approach is to accept most/all connections from friends / colleagues on LinkedIn, @measure, and @nivision, and limit Facebook and @buterbaugh friends to those who believe to be comfortable with my strong opinions on a wide variety of topics, pictures of my kids, childhood wackiness, etc.

I think another dimension to this discussion, especially on the Facebook side of things, is the fact that other people can post and tag material that is linked to you. While diligent monitoring allows you to “untag” material, it is still possible that career-limiting content could be posted ABOUT you on Facebook. I don’t have any examples of this, but it is a concern. Thanks for tackling this.

PS — @niweek is a good example of an account that probably should be kept pretty cleanly on topic

Comment on Omegle.com Saved Me from Eating Cow Bones by hilstreet

hilstreet — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:58:53 +0000

sewing? LOL

Comment on Omegle.com Saved Me from Eating Cow Bones by emiliekopp

emiliekopp — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:10:20 +0000

What can I say, us Dutch are early adopters. And may I say I still think the gummi pigs are delicious.

Comment on Omegle.com Saved Me from Eating Cow Bones by Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:10:08 +0000

Ok so I tried it. And I also got someone in the Netherlands. What’s up with that, Emilie?

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Omegle.com Saved Me from Eating Cow Bones « Tune In and Geek Out — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:38:24 +0000

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Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by deirdrewalsh

deirdrewalsh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:15:34 +0000

LUCAS — Great to see you on my blog. Just wrote a post about our conversation!! Glad to see you are a “real” person. Look forward to chatting more as real people and not “strangers.”

Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by Lisa Wade

Lisa Wade — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:20:40 +0000

I use the ImpactAVillage twitter account to find out who is doing what in Sudan and what is going on. I do a daily search on “Sudan” to monitor conversations. There are lots of conversations and it has helped me keep my finger on the pulse in a volatile country. Just last week I found someone from NY who tweeted that they were building a school in Malek, Southern Sudan (very small village!). That is where we are about to build our 1st school. One tweet lead to another and now Deng Jongkuch (a “Lost Boy of Sudan” who is on our board) is going to meet Adeui (a Lost Girl of Sudan at the other non profit in NY) in Malek this June to talk to the elders of the village together. Twitter helped connect two organizations on opposite sides of the US that will now work together in Malek to build a school. Amazing!

Mostly my tweets are informational and conversational but every now and again I send a tweet asking for donations to help us improve education in Southern Sudan. (www.ImpactAVillage.org).

I am trying to establish similar connections with the Galil account but havent had as much success because the motion control community and chatter is so much smaller than the chatter in Sudan. I dont think the motion control community has embraced Twitter yet.

I see that you have established quite a community on LabView which is fantastic! Galil does have some customers who use our motion controllers with LabView.

Keep on Tweeting!
Lisa

Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by deirdrewalsh

deirdrewalsh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:52:14 +0000

Lisa — thanks for the awesome use cases. I agree that there is a place for corporate or organization Twitter accounts, as long as they don’t just repurpose an RSS feed.

I’m also interesting in learning more about your ImpactAVillage account. Are you using it to encourage social action, donations, etc? How does that compare to your corporate account?

We should chat soon!

Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:35:44 +0000

My previous comment is gone…

Happy to talk to you on Omegle!

Cheers,

Lucas

(Note: JIF rules!)

Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:33:33 +0000

Hello Deirdre,

Just spoke about a lot of things on Omegle (gummy’s, Austin and JIF peanut butter!).

I am sure to contact you when I need tips for my TX-visit this September.

Cheers from the Netherlands!

Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by Lisa Wade

Lisa Wade — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:28:32 +0000

Deirdre- Thanks for the excellent article. The topic on how to “name” yourself on Twitter has puzzled me as well. I work for Galil Motion Control-a high-tech company that makes motion controllers, and I am also on the board of ImpactAVillage-a non-profit that builds schools in Southern Sudan. The conversations and followers for both are very different! I originally just had a Twitter account under my own name but because of the different audiences, decided it was best to create two different accounts, one named Galil and the other named ImpactAVillage. I ended up deleting my personal account (I guess I dont have a life!). In the non-profit world, having an account with an organization name is important to give branding especially for smaller organizations. I find it’s still important to make personal tweets so that people know there is a real, living person behind the organization logo. While there is abundant chatter between NGOs in Africa, there is still not much of a twitter audience for motion control. I dont like strictly “company” tweets that pitch new products, etc and I think its important to include real conversation. It’s what Twitter is all about.
Lisa

Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by Morgan

Morgan — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:21:52 +0000

Robert–

I am glad you’re trying to do this, can’t wait to see how it turns out!

@morgannorris

Comment on The Lines are Getting Blurry by deirdrewalsh

deirdrewalsh — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:30:10 +0000

Jane — I thought about you as I wrote this post. You were the one exception I could think of.

I love your Twitter accounts — both of them! In large part because your personality shows through on the 3MJane. Everything from your profile pic to hilarious tweets like, “Getting ready to brainstorm new name for embedded capacitance material … hoping for something short and easier to spell,” show that you are a real person and not a corporate drone.

Twitter marketing strategy is not formalized yet, so I hope we can continue to experiment and learn from each other.