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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – August 7, 2009

August 10, 2009

Instead of cranking out #followfriday all day last Friday, I thought I would try something new by listing some of my favorite #CIO tweets from the week. Hope you like them and find some new follows as a result. Let me know what you think. [tweetlist:3140019138] Diamond has a few clients who are using Agile techniques in Web-centric projects with some good success. I was looking for some adoption data and found a Forrester survey ...

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“None” is Not a Social Media Strategy

July 22, 2009

Saying “No” to social media is a big mistake, especially if the decision was driven by the CIO.  Over the last few weeks, I have spoken to two CIOs, one in financial services and one in the public sector, who say their organizations have a “no social media” policy. I agree that there are many reasons to limit what your employees post on Facebook or LinkedIn.  That said, shutting off the spigot entirely misses out ...

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Are There Any Real CIOs in the Twitterverse?

June 4, 2009

That’s the question I set out to answer. I’ll tell you about the frustrating journey, which might be useful for anyone trying to find a particular interest group.  And I’ll tell you what I found (and am sharing in detail at my CIO Twitter Dashboard). Is There Anybody Out There? I have sorted through literally hundreds of Twitter-related sites and applications looking for the best place or places to find professional groups.  Hundreds of sites ...

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Why Twitter is the Duct Tape of Marketing and Why Every Firm Needs to Know How to Use It

April 3, 2009

Chris Curran & John Sviokla Duct tape is universally useful because it is incredibly simple, almost infinitely flexible, easily available, and cheap.  Twitter shares all these attributes.  Twitter is a new layer of communication which can be overlaid on everything – just like Duct Tape can be used to repair a chair, or make an artificial flower.  Anyone can use the web and their phone to both send and receive tweets (messages of 140 characters or ...

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Twitter: SOA in Action

April 2, 2009

Talk about incredible innovation – look at the application and service ecosystem around Twitter.  Here are just some examples: On-line Commentary During an Off-line Event – The NY Times developed a beautiful visualization of popular words in Twitter posts during the Super Bowl. Real-time Trends – Twistory streams real-time Twitter posts filtered to let you see what people like, hate, etc. Local Tweeting – Pepsi came out with an impressive app during the South-by-Southwest events ...

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