Twitter Tweets – Week 12 (March 2009)
Do you twitter?
Twitter, a microblogging platform, allows you to send and receive free short messages of up to 140 characters.
Tweets can be private (called direct messages) or public. Twitter is 21st century CB Radio.
Here are selected project management and career twitter tweets from the last few weeks.
How can you use these?
- Look for project managers to follow @ravenyoung @sreejith_gce
- Scan the topics (Project Management Tools, Efficiency and Productivity, etc.) for subjects of interest to you
- Read some or all of the twitter tweets!
Take a look – you might find something that could help you on your project, with your career, or in your life. Have a great week. -Alec
Project Management Tools
- Agile and Scrum? Brief review of Pivotal Tracker Project Management Tool by Andy Volk http://is.gd/opzq
- @wefrahm have you looked at deskaway project management software? Looks promising http://www.deskaway.com/
- New guest post by Paul O’Brien – Free Project Management Tool – Delivery Status Grid http://is.gd/neBA Clients and executives love it.
- Free Project Management Tool – Paul O’Brien’s Promise Keeper. Dare you to use it and not improve your project metrics! http://bit.ly/Vd6N3
Efficiency and Productivity
- Are you losing 28% of your productivity every day in “switching cost”? Myth of multitasking on cranky middle manager http://is.gd/o0CW
- Reading How to increase the value of your mind maps by up to 80 percent by @chuckfrey Refactor! http://is.gd/n5VN
- How Bill Gates is said to take notes http://is.gd/ntHn
- Five best (paper) note taking tools from Lifehacker http://is.gd/1N7a
- Reading Malcolm Gladwell’s The social life of Paper http://is.gd/nszv Do you take paper notes?
- Reading How to Take Notes Like an Alpha-Geek by Tim Ferris – http://is.gd/vTz – How do you organize your notes and information?
- reading: 8 ways to use twitter more effectively @mintblogger http://is.gd/mHBx
Career
- Seth Godin – what to do when you have slack time? http://is.gd/mvtv
- get help for your project – 6 Free Project Management Forums http://is.gd/nBdJ by @alecsatin
- Shawn just added Making Project Management Better PM blog to the ICPM. http://tinyurl.com/ckjlll Thanks @TheICPM
- reading: How to use twitter to job hunt http://is.gd/kUAi Thanks @ravenyoung Happy Friday the 13th everyone – Alec
- @ravenyoung @sreejith_gce It is good to see sreejith here. PM Karma is good stuff http://pmkarma.blogspot.com/
- Will Monster.com help your Job Search? I ask Jeff Taylor on CNBC On The Money tonight @ 10pm ET http://tinyurl.com/8s8lan
Quips and Quotations
- For every complex problem there is a solution which is clear, simple and wrong! Jurgen Appelo on @projectshrink http://is.gd/oeSY
- RT @LimConsulting People don’t want a business opportunity; they want someone to lead them to success! So true.
- @sreejith_gce: You’re in good company. Most of us are learning twitter as we go. Maybe twitter is learning itself as it goes along.
News and Views
- RT @RobertLGoodman @Hakicoma Google forced to black out Street View photos http://tinyurl.com/ce64ca
Blogging
- Iris blog improvement program (now in beta) gives excellent advice. http://www.visionarybloggin… THX @easton
- @SHurleyHall the wordpress Thesis theme and support are excellent. You won’t be disappointed. http://diythemes.com/thesis/
Video Podcasts
- If you ever liked Jacques Cousteau – take a quick break and watch Sylvia Earle’s short video podcast on TED http://is.gd/k6AH
- RT: @ptcraven @alecsatin this is Dean Kamen o TED, incredible http://tinyurl.com/5a8oy2 truly so. Thanks again Paul.
- RT: @ptcraven and then there is this remarkable woman http://tinyurl.com/b8krtj – Fantastic!
- @ptcraven BTW I am so grateful for TED. Did you see this one by Larry Brilliant on pandemics http://is.gd/nyal
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Alec:
Super Duper!
Thank you for mentioning my name (at many places!)
You have turned out as the biggest promoter of my blog: Thanks a tonn mate!
Twitter = Simplicity
Each and every software which started taking the name of simplicity has seen becoming ’super complex’ over a period of time when they attempt to incorporate the user demands and feedbacks as much as possible into the software.
“What you are doing now” and the 140 charector limit shall be maintained. One text box & a submit button ~ thatz all we need for a tweet !
Third party applications shall be developed which read ‘tweets’ and assign popular ’standard’ tags(automatically or with intelligence). This may help people to find ‘tweeters’ who ‘tweet’ in a particular topic and tweets who fall under specific topics.
Twitter = One 140 Char Text box + One Submit button !!!
Cheers!
Sreejith Kesavan´s last blog post..Project Management in Times of Crisis
Twitter: alecsatin
Hi Sreejith,
Biggest promoter? Perhaps the crowd hasn’t found you yet! Just a matter of time
Alec
Alec´s last blog post..Get Everything Done – Mark Forster’s Autofocus System
Hi!
I’m back to blogging after many weeks.
Why dont you check out PM Karma for my latest book “Becoming a better PM by Tweeting” here !
Cheers!
Sreejith