Comments on: Twitter’s Fundamental Flaw http://www.cofebuz.com/2009/06/29/twitters-fundamental-flaw/ Building Business though Networking: a New Way of Thinking about Relationships Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:37:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Twitter for Business? | Fandotech Blog http://www.cofebuz.com/2009/06/29/twitters-fundamental-flaw/comment-page-1/#comment-386 Twitter for Business? | Fandotech Blog Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:39:48 +0000 http://www.cofebuz.com/?p=1015#comment-386 [...] Twitter for Business? Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | Editorial | Gillian Kenny I just read a blog about Twitter and the challenges of leveraging the social networking phenom for business. (Click to read.) [...] [...] Twitter for Business? Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | Editorial | Gillian Kenny I just read a blog about Twitter and the challenges of leveraging the social networking phenom for business. (Click to read.) [...]

]]> By: Valerie Conyngham http://www.cofebuz.com/2009/06/29/twitters-fundamental-flaw/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Valerie Conyngham Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:19:51 +0000 http://www.cofebuz.com/?p=1015#comment-361 As Twitter continues to gain interest within the AEC community this is a timely and relevant overview. As someone who has been on Twitter for over a year, but has just started truly engaging with the medium, I would add that patience is an important virtue to bring to your strategy as it relates to Twitter. There is a lot of valuable content being tweeting for the AEC industry and I agree that the most important tactic is to take it away from a "me" conversation to a "what can I do for you" conversation. However, building a quality following, or even finding the right people to follow takes time and energy and is most successful if you realize the best approach to growth on Twitter is organic. The advice that I would give to any firm considering a Twitter account would be to build up relevant content, start following a small number of relevant people who are likely to follow you back and as your follower numbers increase, begin to follow more people who will in turn follow you. The last two pieces go hand in hand as one of the qualifiers people will look at before they follow you is your following to followers ratio. @valconyngham As Twitter continues to gain interest within the AEC community this is a timely and relevant overview. As someone who has been on Twitter for over a year, but has just started truly engaging with the medium, I would add that patience is an important virtue to bring to your strategy as it relates to Twitter. There is a lot of valuable content being tweeting for the AEC industry and I agree that the most important tactic is to take it away from a “me” conversation to a “what can I do for you” conversation. However, building a quality following, or even finding the right people to follow takes time and energy and is most successful if you realize the best approach to growth on Twitter is organic. The advice that I would give to any firm considering a Twitter account would be to build up relevant content, start following a small number of relevant people who are likely to follow you back and as your follower numbers increase, begin to follow more people who will in turn follow you. The last two pieces go hand in hand as one of the qualifiers people will look at before they follow you is your following to followers ratio. @valconyngham

]]> By: Tim Klabunde http://www.cofebuz.com/2009/06/29/twitters-fundamental-flaw/comment-page-1/#comment-359 Tim Klabunde Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:55:16 +0000 http://www.cofebuz.com/?p=1015#comment-359 David- Great thoughts! I am hopeful that in the Design and Construction industry mydcn.com will become one of the link-minded groups that you reference (it has had a great start). Thank you for your tweet and for your addition here on Cofebuz, your thoughts are welcome anytime! Tim David-
Great thoughts! I am hopeful that in the Design and Construction industry mydcn.com will become one of the link-minded groups that you reference (it has had a great start). Thank you for your tweet and for your addition here on Cofebuz, your thoughts are welcome anytime!
Tim

]]> By: Tim Klabunde http://www.cofebuz.com/2009/06/29/twitters-fundamental-flaw/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Tim Klabunde Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:54:26 +0000 http://www.cofebuz.com/?p=1015#comment-358 John- Great note about quantity vs. quality. When I was first learning about Twitter I was surprised to find out that many people use TweetDeck or other software to filter the updates of people that they officially "follow." You are correct, "quality trumps quantity every time." Tim John-
Great note about quantity vs. quality. When I was first learning about Twitter I was surprised to find out that many people use TweetDeck or other software to filter the updates of people that they officially “follow.” You are correct, “quality trumps quantity every time.”
Tim

]]> By: David http://www.cofebuz.com/2009/06/29/twitters-fundamental-flaw/comment-page-1/#comment-356 David Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:12:06 +0000 http://www.cofebuz.com/?p=1015#comment-356 Tim: Very well articulated and I agree. Whether your strategy is Twitter or some other form of Social Media you need to 1) have a strategy for your objective and 2) engage others by sharing. The trouble in the construction arena is either the adoption or the penetration - and most likely both. More effective like-minded groups need to be developed (potentially leveraging new technologies that can encorporate twitter-type technology) to help proliferate its communication power. Nice job and in the spirit of Social Media I will tweet about your blog. David Tim:

Very well articulated and I agree. Whether your strategy is Twitter or some other form of Social Media you need to 1) have a strategy for your objective and 2) engage others by sharing. The trouble in the construction arena is either the adoption or the penetration – and most likely both. More effective like-minded groups need to be developed (potentially leveraging new technologies that can encorporate twitter-type technology) to help proliferate its communication power.

Nice job and in the spirit of Social Media I will tweet about your blog.
David

]]> By: John R. Sedivy http://www.cofebuz.com/2009/06/29/twitters-fundamental-flaw/comment-page-1/#comment-355 John R. Sedivy Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:09:33 +0000 http://www.cofebuz.com/?p=1015#comment-355 Tim - Great article! You hit the nail on the head given the strengths and weaknesses of Twitter. One of the difficult aspects of that tool is finding who adds value. Most get caught up in the numbers game of trying to be followed (or follow) as many as possible. Of course as with many other things, less is more - quality trumps quantity every time. Well done! -John Tim – Great article! You hit the nail on the head given the strengths and weaknesses of Twitter. One of the difficult aspects of that tool is finding who adds value. Most get caught up in the numbers game of trying to be followed (or follow) as many as possible. Of course as with many other things, less is more – quality trumps quantity every time. Well done!

-John

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