In December of 2012, Twitter announced it had surpassed 200 million users. As TechCrunch noted, it was a 42% increase in their user base in under a year. Wow. Of course it was CEO Dick Costolo who let us know in the summer of 2012 that 400 million tweets were being sent each day. With the increase in users since that time, one can easily surmise we’re well past this number in early 2013. These data points got me thinking. How am I ever going to read 400 million tweets a day? No, not really. I’ll save that for a trip to the Library of Congress where they have already collected 170 billion tweets and are still going strong. What I’m referring to is our
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Are you a tweet king or a pretty thing? The crux of that argument is whether you believe micro-blogging is an active behavior or whether you treat it as passive oversight. Micro-blogging — to truly become effective whether personally or organizationally — ought to become both a personal and an organizational habit. “Habit refers to the extent to which behavior has become automatic as a result of prior learning.” Limayem, M., Hirt, S.G., and Cheung, C.M.K., “How habit limits the predictive power of intention: The case of information systems continuance,” MIS Quarterly (31:4), 2007, 705-737. The intention of micro-blogging, ergo, is to share. The act of sharing, therefore, should become a behavioural habit, irrespective of where you sit on the chain of command hierarchy. Quite
Inside the organization, a dilemma now exists and is rapidly taking shape. Employees want to connect with one another. Reasons are plentiful, including but not limited to the following: Increasing job demands > less time to get it all done Global workforce redistribution > 24 hour clock syndrome Cross functional – cross pollination projects > less formal/hierarchical teams Formal information overload > email & intranets are being ignored Micro-blogging is starting to become a very effective way in which organizations can mitigate some of the aforementioned points. The problem, however, is that due to the rise in popularity of Twitter and its consumer driven use as a life-casting tool, the inherent company benefits get lost in the shuffle. First of all, let’s discuss technology. I
When I was a kid, I had a dream that I’d have a Bachelors by 20, Masters by 30 and Doctorate by 40. Given life’s development with our household having a six, four and two year old, the doctorate by 40 is just not going to happen. Unless, there is another way. Peter Rawsthorne got me thinking in a recent Twitter post. do the PhD in the open, create your own curriculum & thesis, use all the technology available, supervisors will find you… I thought to myself, yes, that’s exactly what I should do. Drive this into the open and see what happens. Walk the talk when it comes to my Learning and Collaboration theorem/lifestyle, and go through a PhD 2.0 experience versus yesterday’s antiquated
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