Twitter as a virtual water cooler

A new (for me anyways) tool floated my way through the Twitterverse this morning called TweetStats which analyses your Twitter actions by frequency of posting, time of action and key words.
Wat does it tell me about me? (there’s that narcissism again) From these statistics I can conclude the following about my Twitter behaviour:

Being most active when I get into work [...]

I think I’m addicted to the internet…

I may possibly be addicted to the internet. I’ve always been a heavy user. I’d go to work, come home and play around a little before cooking and doing something else that I can no longer remember. It’s a distant memory now. Blurred by the abuse to my eyesight, harm to my posture, neglect of [...]

Such is the power of social media

Today I really felt the power of social media. I know I always talk about the power of connections, and the use of networks, but something as powerful as this made those lessons hit home. Hard. I watched on through Twitter and Flickr as the horrid events in Mumbai unfolded.  BreakingNewz, a news service on [...]

Twitter? At work? Yes please. Microblogging’s possibilities for internal communication

I’ve been using Twitter alot lately (what’s Twitter you ask? See here for a good explanation from Brendan Hughes). I have a modest network which is largely centred around my interest in learning through social media. Sometimes posts are work related, sometimes they’re not.  It seems to give me a snappy (140 characters or less) [...]