I found this RSS very interesting. I've never heard of twitter until my husband told me about it and showed me his account and how it works. I'm not much one for blogging or tweeting(twitter's name for messages). But I am starting to see the value of the service if I can get over my unease with the whole process. You always want to put the correct message up and it will be seen by lots of people. You have to dive in and conquer the fear. I have a couple suggestions if you want to use twitter as a resource. Here goes-Having a professional user name, a short accurate one-line bio, choosing a twitter picture and designing your twitter profile.
Professional Name: You have two choices- professional or personal. You want people to be able to find you easy by your relationship with them.
One-Line Bio: You only get 160 characters in order to describe yourself or a project you maybe working on. Put some thought into this portion of the set-up. Use 2 to 3 word phrases until you use up your 160 characters.
Twitter Picture: You need to post a picture that portrays you as both professional and personable-exactly what your tweets should be doing for you.
Designing a Profile: Since there is little room to be creative in your bio, you can make the profile an extension of you as well. We don't want to use any of the templates supplied by twitter. Instead you can upload a background that can be an extension of your company or career that you couldn't fit in your bio.
Whether you use these or not you should check out twitter. It has lots of professionals and is very different from other social media sites like Facebook and Myspace.
I'm starting to come around with the idea (don' tell my husband) but haven't committed. I do believe that if used as a resource we could really gain a lot of knowledge from around the world. This seems to almost go hand in hand with Web 2.0. Let me know your thoughts.
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