Comments on: Let’s all pick on twitter http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/06/lets-all-pick-on-twitter/ A law blog written by someone from IT or an IT blog written by someone who works for a law firm Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:57:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Farko http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/06/lets-all-pick-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1740 Farko Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:10:41 +0000 http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/06/lets-all-pick-on-twitter/#comment-1740 I read your article with great pleasure. Thank you. I read your article with great pleasure. Thank you.

]]> By: John Goalby http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/06/lets-all-pick-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1678 John Goalby Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:05:00 +0000 http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/06/lets-all-pick-on-twitter/#comment-1678 Nice post! I have dispensed with RSS feeds because of Twitter. I couldn't keep up with both and 140 characters is a lot quicker to read than pages of blog posts. If the headline captures my attention I take a look. I also don't feel I have to keep up with Twitter whereas with RSS feeds I felt I did. John. Nice post!

I have dispensed with RSS feeds because of Twitter. I couldn’t keep up with both and 140 characters is a lot quicker to read than pages of blog posts. If the headline captures my attention I take a look. I also don’t feel I have to keep up with Twitter whereas with RSS feeds I felt I did.

John.

]]> By: Jes Breslaw http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/06/lets-all-pick-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1644 Jes Breslaw Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:56:03 +0000 http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/06/lets-all-pick-on-twitter/#comment-1644 It's not just the way we communicate that is changing, it's the way we find and distribute information. Micro-blogging is the only medium I have come across that allows a high volume of content from multiple sources on specific topics at the click of a button. Some consumers of information (be it b2b or b2c) are demanding these channels, regardless of whether the suppliers of it want to or not. They will make their purchasing decision on the way THEY want to be dealt with and if that is via micro-blogging so be it. The trouble with twitter, is it takes some initial effort to understand how it works and unless you follow interesting and relevant people/ organisations it's easy to lose interest. On the other hand I know Legal Tech people on twitter appreciate the content we post, but there just aren't that many using it... yet! Email is still a necessary evil, but only because other mediums are not yet developed enough. Google wave is a great example of the future. Live, collaborative interaction using lots of different mediums at the same time. You must also remember that it's very early days for Twitter. It has minimal functionality. I have no doubt whatsoever that once it becomes a business, it's value will increase to the business community and penetration will force most companies to take notice. As for 16 yr olds vs. business, I would argue that generation y is already here. I engage with customers and partners over MSN, Twitter, Blogs etc and I'm 34 years young :-) It’s not just the way we communicate that is changing, it’s the way we find and distribute information. Micro-blogging is the only medium I have come across that allows a high volume of content from multiple sources on specific topics at the click of a button. Some consumers of information (be it b2b or b2c) are demanding these channels, regardless of whether the suppliers of it want to or not. They will make their purchasing decision on the way THEY want to be dealt with and if that is via micro-blogging so be it.

The trouble with twitter, is it takes some initial effort to understand how it works and unless you follow interesting and relevant people/ organisations it’s easy to lose interest. On the other hand I know Legal Tech people on twitter appreciate the content we post, but there just aren’t that many using it… yet!

Email is still a necessary evil, but only because other mediums are not yet developed enough. Google wave is a great example of the future. Live, collaborative interaction using lots of different mediums at the same time.

You must also remember that it’s very early days for Twitter. It has minimal functionality. I have no doubt whatsoever that once it becomes a business, it’s value will increase to the business community and penetration will force most companies to take notice.

As for 16 yr olds vs. business, I would argue that generation y is already here. I engage with customers and partners over MSN, Twitter, Blogs etc and I’m 34 years young :-)

]]> By: Krystan Honour http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/06/lets-all-pick-on-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1637 Krystan Honour Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:20:07 +0000 http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/06/lets-all-pick-on-twitter/#comment-1637 Interesting post, not sure I agree with the widespread takeup of micro-blogs yet, maybe in large corporate firms where there are evangelists who can fight the corner effectively for these tools, but all to often in smaller firms these sorts of things are viewed with suspision "people wittering (pun intentional) for 5 hours a day instead of getting on with work".. is a phrase I have heard from management in more than one firm.. usually with just cause. I don't think that this technology has found its niche yet in the business world, there are obviously new ways to exploit it as yet untapped. Personally I'd like to implement it for things like departmental announcements etc, but the arguments would be "we can do that in email why bother with micro blogs". A 16 year olds requirements are also very different to that of the current business user, and so I think a comparison with how they use these tools is currently a bit premature... only when they become decision makers in the years to come will some of the things you describe come true. Unfortunately until then it will be a few industry sectors with the people with the hoospa to make senior management see the value of such technology by demonstrating a real ROI... The moment you could show this affected the companies bottom line directly you would see business taking it more seriously.. just like they did with email. I mean you show me a company that doesn't have an email address. Interesting post, not sure I agree with the widespread takeup of micro-blogs yet, maybe in large corporate firms where there are evangelists who can fight the corner effectively for these tools, but all to often in smaller firms these sorts of things are viewed with suspision “people wittering (pun intentional) for 5 hours a day instead of getting on with work”.. is a phrase I have heard from management in more than one firm.. usually with just cause.

I don’t think that this technology has found its niche yet in the business world, there are obviously new ways to exploit it as yet untapped. Personally I’d like to implement it for things like departmental announcements etc, but the arguments would be “we can do that in email why bother with micro blogs”.

A 16 year olds requirements are also very different to that of the current business user, and so I think a comparison with how they use these tools is currently a bit premature… only when they become decision makers in the years to come will some of the things you describe come true.

Unfortunately until then it will be a few industry sectors with the people with the hoospa to make senior management see the value of such technology by demonstrating a real ROI… The moment you could show this affected the companies bottom line directly you would see business taking it more seriously.. just like they did with email. I mean you show me a company that doesn’t have an email address.

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