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A case study in the value of Twitter

April 23, 2009 10:52 a.m.

I get asked a lot about this Twitter thing. What is it, they ask. I say it is a microblogging platform, which mostly elicits blank stares. I go on to describe it in more detail, how people "Tweet" about what they're doing in short bursts. Most look quizzically, wondering why anyone would be interested in knowing when someone is blow drying their hair or eating a burrito the size of their forearm (no, really. I saw the Twitpic).

Mostly I agree that the content on Twitter is drivel. But not today.

I started today by taking the Metra commuter ...

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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:52AM CDT by brian

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Strange reason to be shown the door

April 14, 2009 10:54 a.m.

"To be frank, from the beginning, I have felt that we have been the one being interviewed in this RFP process and not Imaginary Landscape. "

I just received this today as a reason we were eliminated from consideration for a prospect opportunity. It would seem that, in this case, asking too many questions was a fatal flaw.

Could that really be the reason?

Perhaps it was the way we were asking questions that reflected poorly on us. Condescending? Demanding? I reviewed the correspondence and spoke with the account manager who lead the opportunity but found no evidence of anything but ...

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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:54AM CDT by brian

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