Twitter. WTF?

by Mark Pollard on April 27, 2009 · Comments

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A presentation about Twitter – for people, not businesses.

Many thanks to Kelly Tall and The Leading Edge for hosting us last week. It’s weird talking about Twitter in real life. If you have feedback on the night or the presentation, you know what to do. Be kind.

Twitter. WTF?

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Stephen McGillen

one of the most accurate and honest articles about twitter - well done - no bullshit !

Ravi

Dear Mark
This is a lovely preso, Ian Lyons tweeted the link and I found it that way.
Will send it on. Cheers.

roneo (jo sabin)

Hello Mark,
This was a clear and brief summary. No jargon or marketing nonsense. Lovely.
I like ;-p

dj paine

excellent work mate. if i had to do a presentation on twitter it would be EXACTLY the same as this.

Katie Harris

As always, great stuff Mark!

Stephanie

Great PPT, thanks for these guidelines.

tristan

hey mate, nice preso.... i especially liked the reference to 'stalkernomics'. ha

edwardboches

Checked you out because Zach suggested it and I always take Zach's advice ;-).
Actually your experience is similar to many. Twitter has no instructions, but once you learn it's not about the tweet, it's about the experience of connecting with people and discovering what they have to offer and how the process of exploring, discovering, sharing and conversing can make you smarter or at least better informed, you realize it is, in fact, a valuable tool

Mark Pollard

Thanks, all. Have presented chunks of this a few times now and still not comfortable with saying 'Tweet' or 'follow'... weird. But I think there are interesting implications from Twitter (whether Twitter morphs into something completely different or not) that are worth people's time learning now: ie the way we access, share and create new value from existing information; how 'the stream' will affect how we see and play with information; and, a culture that continually demands transparency and open-ness.