To Tweet or Not to Tweet
By Josh Seidman | Popularity: 7%For months, I’ve struggled with:
- Do I really have time in my life for one more expression of Ix personality via a new technology?
- Can I say anything of value in 140 characters or less?
- Is the Twittersphere providing any value to the world?
- Will tweeting distract or promote the advancement of Ix science or practice?
Just as my questions to start blogging couldn’t be answered by agonizing over the decision, I finally decided that the only way to find out was to start tweeting myself (jjseidman is my moniker for those who are interested).
During the IxCenter Board meeting, where some of the Board members — notably James Hereford and Alan Greene – discussed how they had tweeted about/during the meeting, I started to think that it was time to give it a try.
With the first-ever “Health 2. 0 Meets Ix” conference just hours away, there’s no better time to try it out than now.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Josh - I struggled with the same problem. I tried it once and found it fun but saw no value in it. I decided several weeks ago to make another run at it. I have now found a few things of value in “tweeting”:
* It’s a great way for me to follow things like Health 2.0/Ix conference w/o being there.
* It’s a great way for me to share simple things like “see this cool article” that weren’t worth posting to the blog.
* It’s an easy memory jog for me to post something to elaborate on in the blog later.
Enjoy.
April 27th, 2009 at 9:56 am
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