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Archive for August 15th, 2008

Trying out Twitter

I have ignored it all year. Had absolutely no desire to do it.

Twitter.

I already have this Nortel blog, so how can Twitter and its 140 character limit per message possibly provide me any value when updating my “followers”?

Quite frankly, I’m not sure I know. I haven’t created a Twitter communications strategy, calculated the expected ROI, or any of those things that I’m told I should do before moving ahead.

I’m also supposed to be focusing on the conversations I want to have, and who I want to have them with…not the technology. At least that’s what Groundswell tells me.

So I had no desire and no plan — why …

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