Nano2Sol is the online home of Marc Boucher an entrepreneur and application developer living in greater Vancouver, BC. I founded aTerra Technologies Corporation and Hyperix Search, Inc. and co-founded SpaceRef Interactive Inc. and the Mars Institute.
On this site I write about my various projects and share my thoughts on areas that interest me including, but not limited to, vertical search engines, cloud computing, social networking, Twitter, space exploration and the semantic web.
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I’m doing some research on social networking and in particular Twitter. So if you Twitter please forward me your thoughts or post your comments on it here. I’m curious to know how it affects your daily routine, how many of your friends or colleagues use it, do you use it with some mobile technology etc. Thanks. Revised: I’ve decided to expand my focus on this questions to other social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal or blogs in general, Stumbleupon, Flickr etc. 6 Responses to “Do you Twitter? If so I Want your Feedback”
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May 21st, 2007 at 8:29 am
I like the Go Big Network (www.gobignetwork.com). It is a bit more niche (startups and entrepreneurs) but that is what makes it more valuable, it is so specific.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:13 am
I don’t Twitter (never heard of it) but do use Facebook to connect to old friends from school and family scattered throughout the world; MySpace for connecting to my target audience / target market; Linked In for seeking out potential business partners or consultants, and Stumbleupon for websurfing out of my usual bookmark list when I’m bored or looking for inspiration. I’m on one or more of these every day, but this is a recent phenomenon and I may get sick of it quickly. Using Elgg I’ve created a social network for my target audience and customers at http://my.spacechannel.tv/
May 21st, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I saw your question on LinkedIn. I use Twitter and other social networking sites (mainly digg). I’m happy to help you in your research. I’m researching virtual communities myself for my master’s degree in communications.
Anyway, I update Twitter at least once a day and mostly use it through sms on my treo. I also have a dashboard widget for twitter. I have several friends on Twitter but no colleagues. I actually have reduced the number of friends I have on Twitter because I was getting too many text messages on my phone (it was bothersome). I wish there was a way to mark only some of your friends for sms messaging. I’m trying to get some of my family members on Twitter because it seems like a great way to stay in touch. But, many of my friends and family who are not early adopters don’t get the value of twitter. The same is true for LinkedIn and other social networks.
I hope this helps in your research. Let me know if you have any specific questions. As I mentioned, I am also researching online social networks so it would be nice if we can help each other out.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I don’t use Twitter. I do blog, but for the most part don’t have time or inclination towards sites like MySpace, etc.
Blogging frequency roughly translates to 1-2 times per week, depending on what is happening.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Yes — I love Twitter and have an account set up under our company name. Not only does it give us credibility in the space (we do work in Web 2.0 and social media), it’s also great for SEO and PR (the search engines index tweets quickly). When I have a particularly good post on our corporate blog, I’ll twitter and include the link. I’ve also set up an active page on MySpace, a social network on Ning, a del.icio.us page and (currently unused) accounts on YouTube and some other sites.
Currently, I consider these best for our recruiting efforts, and posts on the MySpace blog tend to be more about available positions and corporate culture than anything else. But I think these tools are very useful for both SEO and PR. (I’m not suggesting that we “leverage” social networking exclusively for SEO, but it’s a nice benefit.)
I really believe the social web is a big part of our industry’s future, so I’m pretty dedicated to staying ahead of the curve on it — and doing it right. Adhering to best practices on these sites is critical; you really have to join the community and be 100% transparent about why you’re there to make it work.
Links:
http://myspace.com/DigitalGrit
http://twitter.com/DigitalGrit
http://netmarketing.ning.com/
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:46 am
I don’t use twitter. I use linked in only marginally, but I’ve only just started to fill out my profile and networks. I actually have several personal blogs on various subjects and I just stated a private blog for my department.
I have not used any mobile technology with any of those services.
I’ve never really thought about their affect on my daily routine. For the most part these tools are something that I see as extensions of things I was already interested in or already doing. But the practice of writing about that activity requires spending more time thinking about what I’ve been doing.