Twitter as environmental-scanning (‘A week in Tweets’)
These days my Twitter-feed has become my main source of environmental-scanning – in other words, as a means to discover what’s going on in my various areas of professional interest.
As with most other Twitter users, I re-Tweet some of what I’ve found – but I also record a whole lot more on my local machine, stored in OneNote (one of the greatest pieces of software from Microsoft, which deserves to be a lot better-known than it is). And for the past nine months or so I’ve republished an extract from that record as my weekly ‘A week in Tweets‘ posts – which, since it averages about 100-150 items each week, has now grown to a sizeable resource of about 5,000 items, which I hope may be useful to others too.
Each week’s items are usually sorted into the following categories:
- Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, strategy and business-design in general
- Narrative-knowledge, knowledge-management and in-person collaboration
- Social-media, ‘enterprise 2.0′ and on-line collaboration
- IT-architecture and technology
- Society, culture and business-social-responsibility
- Other miscellaneous items
A few other categories or clusters pop up from time to time, usually because a specific Twitter-conversation takes off.
Anyway, it’s there for anyone who wants to use it – Share and Enjoy, perhaps?
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