Flow Focused

Flow Focused

Business Agility with Agile and Kanban

Tag: Twitter

  • Stop Being So Damned Shady On Twitter

    —

    by

    Malcolm Bastien
    in

    If your only account on Twitter is a corporate account: Stop. Start over. In the past few weeks I’ve been seeing and hearing about more groups joining Twitter but completely try to join in and dictate the terms of the channel. My contention is that this sort of strategy contributes to ruining the brand of…

  • Facebook, Fear, and The Risky Devide

    —

    by

    Malcolm Bastien
    in

    When you use Facebook to have fun and screw around with your friends, it’s easy, and you need not worry too much about it. That’s a very comfortable and confined little world. Breakdown the walls and then Facebook suddenly exposes you to so much more uncertainty.  Risk of embarrassment, employers looking through your information, people…

  • Some DISQUS and Intense Debate Thoughts – They Both Need Work

    —

    by

    Malcolm Bastien
    in

    I recently changed the comment systems on Open Mode And Toronto Dev to both use the DISQUS comment system, where they were previously using Intense Debate.  DISQUS did a great job of jumping on any Discussions either I was having, or that I could see other were having on Twitter about their system. Besides DISQUS’s…

  • Blogging: The Long Term Relationship

    —

    by

    Malcolm Bastien
    in

    Maybe blogging will get lonely Blogging and long-form web writing will be around for a long time.  Even if readership drops and people start spending more and more of their time on Twitter and Facebook, for the authors Blogging will still be relevant to them.  I want to extend an idea written by Mark Evans…

  • Social Networks as Trust Building Tools

    —

    by

    Malcolm Bastien
    in

    This is something I’ve been meaning to write for a while, though one of Chris Brogan’s posts finally got me around to doing it. Social networks have no feature or even general importance besides to the way they can be tools to help us build trust in one another.  There was a video that came…

  • Languages Evolve, Twitter's Should Too

    —

    by

    Malcolm Bastien
    in

    In case you hadn’t known this before, @ reply’s weren’t a feature on Twitter originally.  It was something user’s had started to do to help give context to their tweets.  That was a very important evolutionary step for Twitter, because Twitter as the “communications” tool wouldn’t exist as it does today without the ability for…