Jen McClure issued a friendly challenge at the New Comm Forum: turn to the person nearest you who hasn’t used Twitter, and show them the ropes. (Twitter launched at the 2007 New Comm Forum.)
One thing led to another, and here I am, setting myself up on Twitter this afternoon. I couldn’t be doing this with any kind of immediate work benefit at all, were it not for Carter Lusher’s and Dave Eckert’s Analyst Twitter Directory.
With their directory, I was able to start following some favorite analysts in a matter of minutes. Interesting trivia: most of the analysts listed there also blog. Don’t see any other obvious common denominators, except that Charlene Li is the only female so far.
Also found in their directory 3 firms new to me: Accendor, Bathwick Group and SiriusDecisions.
Very cool. Carter and Dave are developing a specialty around new comms tools and analyst relations. This Twitter directory is a great example of their community spirit.
It’s the perfect solution for me for two reasons. First, I wouldn’t take the time to send emails to a bunch of people asking for their Twitter name. Let alone cause the interruption.
Second, I’m interested in following, versus being followed. That makes this ready-to-use list of Twitter names a comfortable, low key approach to adding analysts to follow.
Twitter seems like an interesting way to incubate many of the new professional relationships I started this week at New Comm Forum. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that Twitter is another reason to spend more time using my newest shiny thing, a Nokia N95.
Tags: Analyst, Blogging, SNCR, Social Media, Twitter
April 26th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Hi Barbara, Thanks for the link and the nice words. For folks trying out Twitter a good post to read is the “Newbie’s Guide to Twitter”
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9697867-2.html
SageCircle has a written a fair amount on Twitter and other forms of social media in the context of analyst relations and the analyst ecosystem. A list of posts can be found at:
http://sagecircle.wordpress.com/category/social-media/
Have fun with Twitter!
April 26th, 2008 at 10:46 am
A couple of viewpoints from Twittering industry analysts:
Jeremiah Owyang (Forrester Research) shares a short list of his fave Twitter add-ons: My Essential Twitter Tools.
And, Stowe Boyd (/Message) gives a short, casual compare of Twitter and Jaiku (alternative to Twitter): Twitter v Jaiku.
Written back in the day and still on topic, is RedMonk James Governor’s If Markets Are Conversations Then Twitter Is Money. The one point where the elapsed time has diverted from his assessment is that Twitter apparently hasn’t continued catching on like wild fire. From what I understood at New Comm Forum, uptake seems to bursty, rather than showing a steady incline.