I’ve been tweeting for a year. During that time, say about nine months when I got around the what-the-heck-is-this thing, I’ve encountered Twitter’s many hidden gifts. I’d like to share and ask whether you have others to add.
Obviously, you need to be a treasure hunter (especially now with more bots, spam and direct selling). Twitter is much like the racks at T.J. Maxx — it’s a hunt-and-peck gold pot deal. But the rainbow does bare fruit.
On Twitter, I promise, you can find:
- Amazing network of intelligent peeps with whom to banter and exchange commentary.
- Sense of community and a feeling you belong to a higher group (are we a clique?) who get it.
- Treasure of information (caveat emptor!) behind the numerous links everyone tweets.
- Quick way to garner immediate knowledge about any topic imaginable and ability to be at the front end of unfolding crises i.e. earthquakes, elections and the like.
- Lists of people with your like interests within your profession or elsewhere from whom you can get opinions and fodder.
- People like Gregg Morris. I’ve mentioned Gregg more than once in my few posts on this new blog, and there’s a reason why. He became my knight who rescued me from blogger IT hell and smoothed out my experience so these posts can come alive. (I have far to go, and I know Gregg is a click away.)
My intention was to gift Gregg with an interview and help him promote his venture as a storyteller. We spoke for several hours, and the outcome was an exchange so rich with backward and forward insights, high intelligence, and an appreciation for the synergies of the past, present and future. As a result, I plan a series of posts relating to and about Gregg; he gifted me with so much, he deserves more in return.
There’s no doubt your Twitter stream can be rich with hidden people gifts ala Gregg. As I develop more food for thought, look within your stream for exactly that. It’s not happenstance, you know; you need to give to get. And, when it does occur, the whole meaning of tweepship is defined anew.
I am truly humbled by that. Thank you.
I’d like to share a couple of things relating to this if I could. First, I can’t begin to thank you enough for sharing the knowledge that you have worked so hard to gather over the course of your career. In less than 24 hours I have started to look at some things from a PR perspective that I likely would not otherwise have done had we not met.
Second, you related a ‘hero’ story and were nice enough to feature me as the knight. Hero stories are some of the most powerful ones we tell. What guy doesn’t want to be a knight riding in to save the damsel? And, what damsel doesn’t want to look up from whatever dilemma and see the knight? You can look at that from one side and go, “that’s just silly.” Or, you can look at it from another and nod your head in understanding of the deeper storytelling at work.
Lastly, (I know, thank God your thinking, he sure is a wordy SOB!) we’ve talked about this concept of networking and gifting that Venessa Miemis is exploring. (She’s at http://www.emerentbydesign.com) What I reached out and did for you, and what you’re reaching out and encouraging people to do with this post, is part of a process. We talked a lot about that yesterday and as we continue to move forward, trust in those processes will continue to grow and evolve. And what is absolutely amazing about that is we have never met ‘face-to-face’! Things in this world are so out of whack in so many ways, but when things like this happen between people who have only a social network to connect them thus far, you have to feel good about the potential moving forward.
Ahh, Gregg. Not sure I need to top that, and I won’t. Suffice it to say, you’re appreciated in many ways. More to come, and thanks for noting our mutual gift-giving ala knight/damsel and storyteller/public relations practitioner.
You are definitely getting the hang of this blogging thang. Wow. great post!
Coming from you, my mentor blogger Twitter Friend, that’s aces! Thank you! (And, you’re right, I’m loving this.)