Comments on: Hey, DFT world, what’s up? http://www.dftdigest.com/feature/hey-dft-world-whats-up/ Expanding design-for-test in an ever-shring world... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:24:43 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: John http://www.dftdigest.com/feature/hey-dft-world-whats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2109 John Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:33:02 +0000 http://www.dftdigest.com/?p=1191#comment-2109 Hi John, I see your point - Twitter is 'sound bitey', but to me it seems more immediate than what you might hear repeated on the news for as many times the news is aired in a day. You rarely get tweets that you've seen before. Many bloggers use it to direct traffic to their blogs. I do this sometimes. Mentor Graphics tweets to direct people to posts in their "Communities" forums (not a bad idea - maybe I should do the same for DFT Forum). Then again, some use it to log their every movement, which can get a little annoying (kind of like a facebook status). I find all this social media interesting. Whether it will turn out to be a good thing or not is chiefly in the eye of the beholder, but I think smart companies are always looking for ways to converse with their customers, and Twitter is a way you can at least *start* that discussion. If you're interested, you should read Ron Ploof's e-book "The Ranger Station Fire" (www.ronamok.com) It's a case study on how the Ford Motor Company used Twitter to quell a PR nightmare. Cheers, JMF Hi John,

I see your point – Twitter is ’sound bitey’, but to me it seems more immediate than what you might hear repeated on the news for as many times the news is aired in a day. You rarely get tweets that you’ve seen before.

Many bloggers use it to direct traffic to their blogs. I do this sometimes. Mentor Graphics tweets to direct people to posts in their “Communities” forums (not a bad idea – maybe I should do the same for DFT Forum).

Then again, some use it to log their every movement, which can get a little annoying (kind of like a facebook status).

I find all this social media interesting. Whether it will turn out to be a good thing or not is chiefly in the eye of the beholder, but I think smart companies are always looking for ways to converse with their customers, and Twitter is a way you can at least *start* that discussion.

If you’re interested, you should read Ron Ploof’s e-book “The Ranger Station Fire” (www.ronamok.com) It’s a case study on how the Ford Motor Company used Twitter to quell a PR nightmare.

Cheers,
JMF

]]> By: John Eaton http://www.dftdigest.com/feature/hey-dft-world-whats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2107 John Eaton Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:24:56 +0000 http://www.dftdigest.com/?p=1191#comment-2107 So what is this “twitter” I speak of? Well, Twitter is what I would call a “micro-blogging” tool, where a person can write whatever, 140 characters at a time, and post it for whomever happens to follow their feed. If you’ve been watching the news, in the past 2-3 months, you are sure to have heard it mentioned at least once. ==================================== John, Twitter will do for technical discussions what TV did for political ones. Instead of well thought out debates we now get the battle of the sound bites. I don't want that. It may be good for a first draft but at some point you have to organize the data and put it somewhere so it can be found. John Eaton So what is this “twitter” I speak of? Well, Twitter is what I would call a “micro-blogging” tool, where a person can write whatever, 140 characters at a time, and post it for whomever happens to follow their feed. If you’ve been watching the news, in the past 2-3 months, you are sure to have heard it mentioned at least once.
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John,

Twitter will do for technical discussions what TV did for political ones. Instead of well thought out debates we now get the battle of the sound bites. I don’t want that. It may be good for a first draft but at some point you have to organize the data and put it somewhere so it can be found.

John Eaton

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