Twittering thru a Virtual Panel

Yesterday I participated in virtual panel about twitter's applicability to businesses. Organized by Aaron Strout of Shared Insights and We Are Smarter Than Me, the panel brought together some rather interesting perspectives.

Nate talked about the San Diego fire and how Twitter helped get the message out. Mukund discussed aggregating information for his company and pushing the updates out through Twitter and an accompanying blog. Ami from Deloitte and others brought the corporate perspective highlighting out instant messaging has really taken off with people using the status features on it too. All in all, there were lots of interesting thoughts.

My perspective - I'm not sure if twitter specifically has a place in the workplace but microblogging in some form certainly does. Specific business scenarios should be identified. We all ready have more interfaces to deal with in the workplace. If I'm being asked to use another interface, it had better be for a good reason.