http://blog.steffanantonas.com/focusing-on-value-how-im-changing-how-i-use-twitter.htm Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:18:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.steffanantonas.com/focusing-on-value-how-im-changing-how-i-use-twitter.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2420 The Connector of Open Science: A Talk With Antony Williams of ChemSpider « Significant Science Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:28:52 +0000 http://blog.steffanantonas.com/?p=1094#comment-2420 [...] As with all forms of social networking tools online I would say that people need to have an interest in such an environment to begin with. Many people don’t read blogs yet, many are unaware of what RSS feeds are, Twitter would be an annoyance and FriendFeed just one more on the list. It is a very small fraction of the community that is using these tools but it is growing of course. I find FriendFeed of value to ask questions and engage a group of domain experts in discussion but the reality is that, for me, this is a tight knit community and I could engage the majority of them directly by email. I believe that Cameron Neylon and JC Bradley have had success in using FriendFeed to initiate projects and activities around funding applications. The truth is that there are so many groups to interact with and so many activities already underway for ChemSpider that I have backed away a little from all of these tools of late just because of time limitations. I’m focusing instead on building closer working relationships with a select group of people with whom I can get things done and produce an outcome or measurable output. I found that I was losing a lot of time in a week on conversations that didn’t lead anywhere. An interesting discussion was recently started here. [...] [...] As with all forms of social networking tools online I would say that people need to have an interest in such an environment to begin with. Many people don’t read blogs yet, many are unaware of what RSS feeds are, Twitter would be an annoyance and FriendFeed just one more on the list. It is a very small fraction of the community that is using these tools but it is growing of course. I find FriendFeed of value to ask questions and engage a group of domain experts in discussion but the reality is that, for me, this is a tight knit community and I could engage the majority of them directly by email. I believe that Cameron Neylon and JC Bradley have had success in using FriendFeed to initiate projects and activities around funding applications. The truth is that there are so many groups to interact with and so many activities already underway for ChemSpider that I have backed away a little from all of these tools of late just because of time limitations. I’m focusing instead on building closer working relationships with a select group of people with whom I can get things done and produce an outcome or measurable output. I found that I was losing a lot of time in a week on conversations that didn’t lead anywhere. An interesting discussion was recently started here. [...]

]]> http://blog.steffanantonas.com/focusing-on-value-how-im-changing-how-i-use-twitter.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2419 jazzsequence » » How not to use Twitter Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:23:13 +0000 http://blog.steffanantonas.com/?p=1094#comment-2419 [...] not the first person to say that automatically reciprocating all follows is a bad idea.  And probably, if all you want to do is set up hundreds of twitter accounts selling affiliate [...] [...] not the first person to say that automatically reciprocating all follows is a bad idea.  And probably, if all you want to do is set up hundreds of twitter accounts selling affiliate [...]

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