{"id":179,"date":"2008-05-16T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T18:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2008\/05\/16\/another-interesting-idea\/"},"modified":"2008-05-16T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T18:23:38","slug":"another-interesting-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2008\/05\/16\/another-interesting-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Another interesting idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadingscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/pierjpg.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"pier\" title=\"pier\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/> <span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #666666; font-size: 0.9em\"><em>by <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.9em\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/mszippycat\/\">Zed.Cat<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbrogan.com\/a-day-without-twitter\/\">A Day Without Twitter<\/a>:<br \/>\n[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbrogan.com\">chrisbrogan.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday, I took the day off from Twitter. I&#8217;ve been using it fairly solidly since the early days, and wanted to get a feel for what I was counting on Twitter to do for me. The results were interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I count on Twitter for group answers. A LOT. For instance, I needed to know who from the social media scene was in Detroit. I ended up using LinkedIn, but I know that means I missed a bunch of folks.<\/li>\n<li>I count on Twitter as a way to express quick, random thoughts, or to mention references to cultural items to which I know people will respond. (For instance, I like tweeting parts of song lyrics, because it&#8217;s fun when people pick the song up as a reply).<\/li>\n<li>I use Twitter to promote other people. While I was dark, I got no less than 14 requests to promote fundraising causes, and 12 general promotion requests.<\/li>\n<li>I use Twitter to promote myself, my blog, things I&#8217;m doing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A day without Twitter didn&#8217;t give me more time to write. It gave me fewer distractions, but I don&#8217;t sit around and LABOR on Twitter when I write something. Often times, I can just jot something from my mobile in between meetings, or I pop the window open, reply to a few folks, and then go back to my work. Meaning, I don&#8217;t find Twitter to be a time suck to me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if I should try my &#8220;a day without&#8221; on other services, like email, or my BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<p>Have you tried things like this? What would you lose if you didn&#8217;t have Twitter?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8216;Going without&#8217; for a day is a nice way to see how a tool helps or how it does not help. Twitter certainly has some important uses in a general social network, particularly by keeping in touch with a wide group of people. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many networks are made up of weak ties to a large group of people. Twitter helps maintain these weak ties, keeping the network functional. LinkedIn serves a similar function. Research has shown that the ability to activate weak ties when needed is a critical aspect of a working social network. It is also where many innovative ideas come from.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, Twitter may have its uses. I&#8217;m just not sure I see where it would fall inside an organization. It seems like much more a personal network enhancer.<\/em><br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Knowledge%20Creation\" rel=\"tag\">Knowledge Creation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Social%20media\" rel=\"tag\">Social media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Web%202.0\" rel=\"tag\">Web 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Zed.Cat A Day Without Twitter: [Via chrisbrogan.com] Yesterday, I took the day off from Twitter. I&#8217;ve been using it fairly solidly since the early days, and wanted to get a feel for what I was counting on Twitter to do for me. The results were interesting: I count on Twitter for group answers. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2008\/05\/16\/another-interesting-idea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another interesting idea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe2yp-2T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":347,"url":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2008\/08\/28\/technorati-still-the-best\/","url_meta":{"origin":179,"position":0},"title":"Technorati - still the best?","date":"August 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"by Annie Mole Technorati Doesnt Count Microblogs: [Via chrisbrogan.com] Something Mack Collier just said rang a bell in my head: Technorati doesn't count services like Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk, Identi.ca, etc, as valid sources of traffic for a blog. 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