At a recent training event, two managers sat at the back of the room as a Senior Executive from their firm spoke to them about the days when he was a line manager. He waxed rhapsodic about the way he used to focus on the “soft skills” of management, of the “HP Way” and “Management by Walking Around” and how they needed to get away from their desks- stop sending so much email and really connect with their teams. Heads nodded. Some in agreement- most in boredom. Finally one attendee turned to the other and muttered in frustration, “Yeah but it’s a long bloody walk to Bangalore”.
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“I don’t get Twitter”.
That’s the first thing I said to myself when I first discovered the social media platform Twitter. I can easily recall thinking “Oh great, another social media site,” as I didn’t quite understand what Twitter was or what value it provided to me and my business. According to Wikipedia, “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.” Even though I thought the cross between instant messaging and blogging as a communication tool was an interesting idea (and the fact the updates even show up on your phone), I still remained skeptical about using Twitter as I questioned “Why would anyone be interested in knowing what I’m doing every second of the day?” So for months I left Twitter untouched.