Follow Next Level Purchasing on Twitter
Though we've been on Twitter for a while now, I just realized that I had never mentioned that here.
If you already know what Twitter is about, check us out at http://www.twitter.com/nextlevelpurch
If you don't know about Twitter, I recommend reading the Wikipedia entry for Twitter and Chris Brogan's 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business.
Twitter is either going to make our generation look like we've developed a breakthrough way of connecting and communicating with others or that we were a generation that wasted technology and time on meaningless stuff. It's really up to us and how we use Twitter that will determine how future generations look back on this.
My recommendation: try it and see if it delivers any benefit to you. But do it from home until you learn to separate the valid professional use of Twitter from simply having fun. I have to admit, I'm still learning the ropes myself.
Once again, follow Next Level Purchasing at http://www.twitter.com/nextlevelpurch
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posted by Charles Dominick, SPSM @ 10:05 AM
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http://blog.sourcinginnovation.com/2008/05/17/twitter.aspx
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http://www.1938media.com/twitter-book-concept/
'Nuff said.
Doc,
You should be careful with your reputation...ranting against twitter and designing sites to look like 1999 (your words, not mine) in the name of making a "conscientious return to the good old days of the free web" may make your work seem more like Sourcing Stagnation rather than Sourcing Innovation.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a supporter and fan of the doctor. But resisting new technology developments rather than finding valid ways to use them and using the phrase "good old days" in any context makes one seem more like a dinosaur than an innovator.
If NLP can offer sage advice in soundbites of 140 characters, I want that compression algorithm.
Even Twitter's advocates and "power users" (Robert Scoble, for example) are starting to question its usefulness for their business -- and Scoble has tens of thousands of followers.
In terms of monetizing Twitter, nobody has figured that out yet. Smart people are thinking about it every day. Still no answer. So, should we all jump on a service with no revenue model, and start depending upon it?
There are two types of new techology:
(1) New technology that posesses value and offers individuals and business functionality that is useful, meaningful, and, especially with respect to the latter, profitable.
(2) "New" technology that is nothing more than trendy eye-candy with no useful functionality or value.
I am in full support of the former, and regulary profile companies on Sourcing Innovation that have truly innovative new technology.
But I abhor the latter. Just because it's "new" doesn't mean it's innovative. Just because it's "new", doesn't mean it has useful or valuable functionality or offers any functionality or value above and beyond the current generation of technology. And, as Anonymous points out, just because it's new doesn't mean there's a viable business model around it.
I believe I'm quite good at differentiating between the two. It looks like I called Facebook and Myspace right.
As I point out in an upcoming post, there's a reason why "facebooked" has become an urban slang slam and why "myspaced" has become a synonym for a late-night booty call. And I believe I've called Twitter right too. There has to be a reason why the blogger elite (including Loren Feldman of 1938 Media) slam Twitter on a regular basis ... and why even early advocates are now questioning it's value. And, as far as I'm concerned, that reason is that it's nothing more than trendy eye-candy with no viable revenue model to stand on.
So, given the choice between useful 1999 technology that was truly innovative at the time and useless 2009 technology that is worse than anything I could dig up with a trip through the wayback machine, I'll take the former anyday and wait for the truly innovative technologies to come along.
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