Tweet This

I have always been a huge fan of Twitter, however I never realized how useful of a tool it was until I started to look at it in terms of a business tool. I am not much of a tweeter myself instead I have mostly used it to get up to the minute information on my favorite sports teams and players. Since taking this class I have started to experiment to see how I could use this tool to go out and gather the information I wanted rather than sit back and wait for the information to come to me. Through the use of TweetDeck I now have streams of information, sorted into pre-defined categories that I can review at will. Perhaps the greatest benefit is I am no longer limited to only seeing what the people I follow are saying, instead I get everything related to whatever topic I am interested in. Below is a Jing capture of my TweetDeck

While all of this is pretty cool there of course is a down side in the form of information over load. I will sometimes spend twenty minutes at a time on a single category where I used to only spend a few minutes. It will probably take some time to get in a routine where I am using my time the best with this resource but I have already seen some benefits. We are in the process of starting a Sales Through Service initiative at work and have gotten several great ideas from a Tweet Stream I put on my TweetDeck.