There is no doubt about it, 2009 was the year that Twitter came into its own. It was everywhere. Suddenly the social network found itself transformed from a niche tool used to network and share idea among geeks to one of the biggest buzz words of the year. You couldn’t turn on the local news without there being shown random people’s “Tweets” about everything happening. Even Oprah made an account. The perception has quickly become that if your company or organization is not on Twitter you are falling behind. Twitter has reached critical mass.
Should a 10 yr old have a Facebook account?
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Should a 10 yr old have a Facebook account?
I asked, in an early morning tweet, if our 10 yr old son should have a Facebook acct. The tweet also appeared on my Facebook status update. A Facebook friend then picked up the conversation and, it took off. You can read the rest of the story and updates here.
Is email dead (again!)?
I wrote here about lessons learned from a recent client Twitter chat.
The one thing I left out was probably the most interesting. Right before the chat began, our e-mail server went down. Instead of putting on the oxygen mask though, I took a deep breathe and thought about it. Reality was that modes of communication for the evening were IM, DM, text, gchat, skype, anything else that was quick. Sure e-mail is important but I didn’t loose sleep over it. We were running a Twitter chat so one might expect that participants would be doing the instant communication thing. I’m not sure though. Articles like this on passive-aggressive communication and this might tell a different story.