When Janet Clarey told me I needed to get myself on Twitter, I grumbled. I thought to myself why would I want to maintain yet another account? Why would I want to share snippets of info about myself, in only 124 characters… I’m English born and bred, I can’t say what I need to stay in 124 characters! Returning from a conference where everybody was twittering away on their PDA’s I realized that I needed to get with it… so I bravely typed www.twitter.com and signed on in, and started stalking, well that’s how it felt initially, I felt like I was virtually psychic, reading the minds of my peers.
However, after others started to follow me, like a huge game of tag, I started to think about the thoughts that I put out on Twitter, and the responses that I got back, and I realize what an effective tool I was using. Just like many others, in this virtual world, I work from home, and use, to coin the phrase of many, Twitter as “my watercooler or coffee machine”. I share what I’m working on, get comments back and if I need some information on a specific topic, I just have to ask in 124 words or less (ok that still stumps me) and before too long an answer or 10 will appear.
While some may say that Twitter is time consuming, I find it to be an effective and efficient way for me to step outside of my office, converse with like minded folk and regroup my thoughts. Instead of wading through books or internet articles to find an answer to my question, I ask my peers. Twitter to me is a Performance Support Tool.
So Twitter concludes my Top 10 Time Saving Tools. Name one of yours?
This has been fun! Come on … follow me on Twitter lets get tweeting: emmaking_escp
Here are my followers to date : Provided by Twitter Mosaic
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