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By: Your watercooler was never like this | alex de carvalho

Your watercooler was never like this | alex de carvalho — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:40:37 +0000

[...] Your watercooler was never like this 7 November, 2007 Posted by Alex As Social Media & Networks [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:07:05 +0000

@conniereece with time we may find more uses for Twitter and we may get better at getting things done with it. I think that point will come when more of our friends start using it.

@balou I’ve also met people from all over and particularly from Brazil using Twitter. I look forward to our Tweetup coming up soon!

@vicequeenmaria you’ve really embraced Twitter and Seesmic and it’s great to see you building freindships on-line and off with these channels

@nicolau hopefully this will help cut out e-mail altogether ;)

By: Nick Dominguez

Nick Dominguez — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:31:40 +0000

I think now that we all have some experience onTwitter and have figured out how it fits into our online activity it is definitely playing a bigger role in our lives.

What has me excited about this service, even in spite of all it’s quirks, is that it’s really what we have been talking about along now and that is “rss as email”

By: vicequeenmaria

vicequeenmaria — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:54:50 +0000

Great thoughts, Alex. I was skeptical about Twitter at first, but when I learned how to use it in a practical and fun way, it became a catalyst. It’s especially important when you work in a rather reclusive way, so you NEED a virtual watercooler to stay in touch with people on a continual basis. I think seesmic is going to take this to the next level.

I agree, 140 characters is actually a great test in communication skills. It makes you think twice about what you’re going to say.

By: Balou

Balou — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:48:46 +0000

Excellent post. While I sometimes find myself frustrated at the Twitter technology (time lag, downtime, etc), the benefits of being able to connect and communicate with people outside of my immediate circle outweighs all that. I currently have Twitter friends from Mexico, Argentina, UK, and all over the states. People I would otherwise never have “met” had it not been for Twitter.

By: Connie Reece

Connie Reece — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:33:21 +0000

Great post, Alex. I was leading a session at the Austin Social Media Workshop yesterday and referenced Twitter as my “virtual water cooler.” The specific examples of how you’ve used Twitter are similar to mine. I have yet to find anything that comes close to dragging me away from Twitter; it’s been profoundly useful as well as enjoyable.

Good luck w/ BarCampMiami! I enjoyed getting to meet you at BlogOrlando and trust our paths will cross again at another conference.