Comments on: Twitter is the new anti-metaverse http://www.socializedpr.com/twitter-is-the-new-anti-metaverse/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:34:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: How twitter can help your small business | P2W2 blog http://www.socializedpr.com/twitter-is-the-new-anti-metaverse/#comment-432 How twitter can help your small business | P2W2 blog Tue, 20 May 2008 09:47:15 +0000 http://www.socializedpr.com/twitter-is-the-new-anti-metaverse/#comment-432 [...] “How could I hire a stranger to work on an important project? Simple. I knew enough about her from Twitter to be confident she could do the work. Her authentic behavior in the [Internet] told me she was intelligent and articulate. When we briefly stepped into the real world, I quickly confirmed this. And her work was outstanding. The most valuable social networks, and the most valuable contacts within those networks, are based on trust. Most of my Twitter friends are people I have never met in person and with whom I had no connection prior to twitter. Twitter provides exactly the right environment in which to build trust.”(Joel Postman: twitter is the new anti-metaverse) [...] [...] “How could I hire a stranger to work on an important project? Simple. I knew enough about her from Twitter to be confident she could do the work. Her authentic behavior in the [Internet] told me she was intelligent and articulate. When we briefly stepped into the real world, I quickly confirmed this. And her work was outstanding. The most valuable social networks, and the most valuable contacts within those networks, are based on trust. Most of my Twitter friends are people I have never met in person and with whom I had no connection prior to twitter. Twitter provides exactly the right environment in which to build trust.”(Joel Postman: twitter is the new anti-metaverse) [...]

]]> By: Lara Kretler http://www.socializedpr.com/twitter-is-the-new-anti-metaverse/#comment-325 Lara Kretler Sun, 04 May 2008 02:53:14 +0000 http://www.socializedpr.com/twitter-is-the-new-anti-metaverse/#comment-325 Joel, I agree completely. Twitter feels very much like real life to me, but in nice manageable bite-size pieces. It's easy to tell, after just a few Tweets, if someone is worth your time to follow them. Some folks are worth following but they Tweet too much so you have to unfollow -- and others are so interesting to read that you wish they'd Tweet more! I am constantly finding interesting new people to follow and cool new Twitter-related tools to try. It's absolutely my favorite social media tool for now. Until the next cool thing comes along. Joel, I agree completely. Twitter feels very much like real life to me, but in nice manageable bite-size pieces. It’s easy to tell, after just a few Tweets, if someone is worth your time to follow them. Some folks are worth following but they Tweet too much so you have to unfollow — and others are so interesting to read that you wish they’d Tweet more! I am constantly finding interesting new people to follow and cool new Twitter-related tools to try. It’s absolutely my favorite social media tool for now. Until the next cool thing comes along.

]]> By: Ike http://www.socializedpr.com/twitter-is-the-new-anti-metaverse/#comment-322 Ike Sat, 03 May 2008 12:49:53 +0000 http://www.socializedpr.com/twitter-is-the-new-anti-metaverse/#comment-322 Twitter FORCES authenticity and transparency, because there's no room for masks or the things that obscure who we are. Each update is a slice of us - a sliver of a facet. And like the thinnest of slices, you can see right through it. Less becomes more. Twitter FORCES authenticity and transparency, because there’s no room for masks or the things that obscure who we are.

Each update is a slice of us - a sliver of a facet. And like the thinnest of slices, you can see right through it.

Less becomes more.

]]> By: Sue Radd http://www.socializedpr.com/twitter-is-the-new-anti-metaverse/#comment-315 Sue Radd Sat, 03 May 2008 02:07:36 +0000 http://www.socializedpr.com/twitter-is-the-new-anti-metaverse/#comment-315 The one thing that I, like, really LIKE about Twitter is that it simultaneously forces and compels one to be super brief and not go on and on using long words and stuff (yet still speak the English unlike txt or teh 133t). I think it's like wicked cool that you have to limit your tweets to one hundred forty characters or letters or whatever because I totally think alot ;-) of PR People, like myself, who happens to be a PR person, tend to not be brief and like go ON and ON especially in news stuff-ish things about technical doo-dads -- ZOMG and after the lawyers get ahold of it??? where brevity -- or being, like, really *concise* is one of the things we got taught first and foremost. In college and I think in high school too I might have possibly been taught that. Plus they make us put all the jargon in the lede where I'm all like, dude, you have just done nothing but string a set of technical arachnids (sp?????) together and this totally makes no sense to normal people who, like, buy cellies and stuff. (BTW, how did "cellie" get to be slang for mobile? I always thought the "cellie" was your jail roommate after you got busted on South Padre for flashing your kitten-feeders to get beads.) To quote Strump & White: "Omit needless words." Twitter is great practice for improving writers. PS -- Agree re: the transparency. It's my life and I am who I say I am. What happens, happens. The details of a new job at a strange place might appear trivial to some people, but having somewhere about which I can post my little observations means a lot thse days. The one thing that I, like, really LIKE about Twitter is that it simultaneously forces and compels one to be super brief and not go on and on using long words and stuff (yet still speak the English unlike txt or teh 133t). I think it’s like wicked cool that you have to limit your tweets to one hundred forty characters or letters or whatever because I totally think alot ;-) of PR People, like myself, who happens to be a PR person, tend to not be brief and like go ON and ON especially in news stuff-ish things about technical doo-dads — ZOMG and after the lawyers get
ahold of it??? where brevity — or being, like, really *concise* is one of the things we got taught first and foremost. In college and I think in high school too I might have possibly been taught that. Plus they make us put all the jargon in the lede where I’m all like, dude, you have just done nothing but string a set of technical arachnids (sp?????) together and this totally makes no sense to normal people who, like, buy cellies and stuff. (BTW, how did “cellie” get to be slang for mobile? I always thought the “cellie” was your jail roommate after you got busted on South Padre for flashing your kitten-feeders to get beads.)

To quote Strump & White: “Omit needless words.” Twitter is great practice for improving writers.

PS — Agree re: the transparency. It’s my life and I am who I say I am. What happens, happens. The details of a new job at a strange place might appear trivial to some people, but having somewhere about which I can post my little observations means a lot thse days.

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