Toigo is a Twit

Okay, I knuckled under to pressure.  First, Leigh Grace tried to sell me on Twittering (which led me to use it as a way to notify everyone about new posts here), then I got a call from Rose Ross over in the UK who relayed to me that folks were sending me messages — tweets I guess — and received nothing in response:  mainly because I don’t monitor Twitter.  “You are damaging your brand, Jon,” she warned in foreboding tones.

My brand?  What the heck is that?  I started this blog before folks called them blogs mainly as a way to collect notes and thoughts so I could reference them conveniently when traveling.  When folks started to comment, it drove the effort forward into the formal realm of blogging…er, “wannabe blogging.”

I’m a pretty friendly guy and like being social in person.  But I really held off on the social networking thing because 1) Facebook was a huge productivity virus, and 2) I really don’t have the time to respond to every message I get — especially when so many are spams anyway. 

I asked Rose how it helps “my brand” if I can’t respond to Tweets in anything like a timely way:  doesn’t that hurt my brand more than not tweeting at all?  Also, I expected that there would be pushback from the analysts who tweet a lot, and who we have made fun of in this blog and elsewhere.

Anyway, my wife (the boss of me) said she understood what Rose was saying.  So, there you have it.  TweetDeck is on my desktop (and will likely be on my laptop shortly) and I am installing UberTweet on my BlackBerry shortly at the recommendation of AceSage (Kirby Wadsworth) and others.

This weekend was the test of everything.  I admit that it was kind of novel and even fun.  I will cover the latest “multilectic” (my new expression — like a dialectic, but with several voices) in an upcoming blog here.  I had a 140 character per installment debate with a consultant about the merits of reclaiming storage capacity through better data management.  It was a hoot.

Unfortunately, as my patience waned and hunger for dinner grew, I was getting pummeled by Curtis Preston about my views of EMC Data Domain and others.  I will spare everyone that exchange.  You can read it all on Twitter, I guess.

So, Toigo is a twit now, I suppose.  Well, for the time being…

Tagged as: TweetDeck, Twitter, UberTweet