{"id":544,"date":"2008-07-22T11:26:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T11:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-power-of-micro-blogging\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T11:26:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T11:26:15","slug":"the-power-of-micro-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-power-of-micro-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Micro-Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I use <A href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\" target=_blank>Twitter<\/A> daily (look for me under &#8220;Epic Living&#8221;).&nbsp; One of the people who follows me asked my thoughts on micro-blogging in the corporate arena.&nbsp; I wanted give my thoughts around that and why you should embrace it as well.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>First, micro-blogging is a cool way of giving your &#8220;fans&#8221; and idea of what you&#8217;re doing on a micro level-no pun intended:-).&nbsp; On Twitter you have 140 words or less to do that.&nbsp; You can click <A href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/epicliving\" target=_blank>here<\/A> to learn what I wrote there this morning.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So what about corporations\/businesses using a tool like Twitter?&nbsp; I think it would be a tremendous tool to communicate and to connect.&nbsp; Imagine your company provides a piece of hardware for the iPhone.&nbsp; Your CEO just got back from a conference where he met with Steve Jobs.&nbsp; Steve told your CEO how pleased Apple was with your company&#8217;s service levels.&nbsp; As an employee would you like to see a micro-post like the following?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<EM>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Everyone, just had a conversation with Steve Jobs.&nbsp; He&#8217;s amped about our service levels.&nbsp; More to come.&#8221;<\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P>That kind of communication not only encourages and engages, but gives real-time information.&nbsp; It&#8217;s better than email and IM, because in places like Twitter, you are in a community that has a look and feel of community.&nbsp; And if you haven&#8217;t already noticed, people crave community.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>You might say why not just send an email?&nbsp; But at the same time someone could have said to Google, why not just stick to search.&nbsp;&nbsp;Great tools are created when you go into paths not yet worn.&nbsp; I guess that&#8217;s why they call it innovation.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Here are some thoughts on how micro-blogging could help an organization:<\/P><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community would\/could be built and cemented-with customers and employees.<\/li>\n<li>Organizations would see engagement rise-significantly.<\/li>\n<li>Organizations would become more fluid and less rigid.<\/li>\n<li>Courage would be found, because you&#8217;d have to take on HR and Legal.<\/li>\n<li>Customers would have a compelling story to follow.<\/li>\n<li>Customers would become more loyal.<\/li>\n<li>Money follows those who do something engaging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Twitter daily (look for me under &#8220;Epic Living&#8221;).&nbsp; One of the people who follows me asked my thoughts on micro-blogging in the corporate arena.&nbsp; I wanted give my thoughts around that and why you should embrace it as well. First, micro-blogging is a cool way of giving your &#8220;fans&#8221; and idea of what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1050,521,406,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-things","category-marketing","category-new-media","category-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}