This blog is about leadership and social networking. However, I’m personally not very good at the online social networking, at least when it comes to being available online. For example, I don’t use Twitter, and here is why:
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- Productivity. Researching and blogging about leadership in online communities is not my main job (which currently is managing IT service support), so I can’t spend a lot of time doing it. I have discovered that I’m most productive when I limit my online activity to minimum. I scan through my favourite blogs to look for new topics and research Google when I already found a topic to cover. I then print out the most interesting posts or articles (small font and two-sided printing to limit the impact on the forests), and read them over a cup of coffee rather than on screen. I make paper notes first and only approach my PC when I’ve already created a good draft of a post. This is my way to reach the flow state by decreasing the number of interruptions.
- Quality. Since I don’t have much time to spend online, I prefer to focus on quality information. And the quality of blog posts is normally much better than quality of tweets. This goes also the other way round, I choose to write one thoughtful post rather than 10 short messages.
- Respect. I don’t think I’m able to spend enough time on Twitter to use it thoughtfully. I could start using it without much hassle, writing anything off the top of my head, but that would not show respect for the potential followers. And respect is important.
Yet, I also see reasons why I might start using Twitter:
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