Comments on Learning Rocks: Why I don't like Twitter

Kate I spotted that one too, only after I had wri...

2011-06-29T14:46:22.996+01:00

Kate

I spotted that one too, only after I had written mine. He deals in referred fact, I deal in hunches. Who's better. Hmmmm.

I also spotted a good post on the same subject by Norman Lamont too, worth a read. I've added it to the end of the post.

You make a good point about feeling like you've started so you'll finish. I just doubt exactly how much the recipients are going to get from the chopped up message in the Twitter stream, interspersed with random messages from other people they follow, as opposed to picking up, let's say, a single Tweet by me a day later, linking to my blog in which I right out a thought out summary of the day, drawn from my notes.

Thanks for taking the time to return to post your thoughts.

Hi Dan, Really interesting points as I'm a fa...

2011-06-29T09:41:30.595+01:00

Hi Dan,

Really interesting points as I'm a fairly prolific tweeter of events and conferences that I attend. I also like to plug into the back channel when I'm not there. I tend to actually feel a certain level of responsibility that once I've started tweeting from an event, that if people are responding on the back channel that I can't suddenly stop and cut off their news feed!

I agree with you regarding the old fashioned note book as I remember things best when I write them down. But I do actually refer back to my tweets and dedicated streams after events and pull out key pieces of information or links that I can refer to. Donald Clark just wrote this blog entry which I thought was really great on this very subject:
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2011/06/social-media-learning-note-taking-on.html

Food for thought though, great post :)
Kate

James Thanks for your contribution and thanks for...

2011-06-28T14:30:41.798+01:00

James

Thanks for your contribution and thanks for coming out from behind the label too ;)

I'm not downing on Twitter in general as I find it invaluable myself, and particularly good for forming real world relationships that other platforms don't seem to achieve.

But in the role of backchannel to live events I am increasingly finding it intrusive, both as an attendee and as a Twitter user when others are at events.

Thanks for that, Dan. I share your views. The cha...

2011-06-28T14:06:59.756+01:00

Thanks for that, Dan. I share your views.

The challenge of tweeting conferences is a little less challenging for me since I trained as a psychotherapist years ago and the practice of active listening has stood me in good stead. (In this case, active listening is not identical to the models touted by HR depts.)

However, that was just an aside. Oh, here's another. Yup, multi-tasking is a myth created by a discrete and exclusive group of people to claim superiority over another. There's no way I'm going to name that group. Anyway, this myth is fed by a mistake in perception. It might appear to be multi-tasking or parallel processing but, like a computer's CPU, it is really switching quickly between the current tasks. This does increase the cognitive load and challenges short-term memory but it can be done.

Any-way. My point. Agreed - the typical member of the mid-career, professional groups we serve might not care for twitter. It serves little purpose and fuels the possibility of professional indiscretions and breaches of confidence. Also, as with Facebook, there is a risk of introducing stresses into their work life as they publicly display who their influences are.

However, for we ed techs it is invaluable. Once you weed out the over-enthusiastic 'Me!Me', it is a convenient tool for commenting and sharing innovative thinking.

2011-06-28T13:58:49.644+01:00

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Ever helpful @craigtaylor74 has suggested that Plu...

2011-06-28T09:13:22.378+01:00

Ever helpful @craigtaylor74 has suggested that Plume might be the tool for me because it has the precise #blocking capabilities that I suggested. Cheers Craig, I'll look at that.

http://levelupstudio.com/plume