Tips for Joining Our Band of Global DeltaV Twitterers
About Twitter
From Wikipedia: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twhirl.
Here's a nice YouTube video, Twitter in Plain English, explaining its social use. Also, here's a great post, Why is Twitter Exploding? Because it's A Conversation Ecosystem which helps describe Twitter's growing popularity.
Purpose for Global DeltaV Twitter Community
Twitter offers a way for a community connected together to ask questions, provide answers, and link to content to share with others. The intent is help DeltaV users, project folks, support folks, and other interested parties be more effective through their interactions with this growing global community. It's a great communications medium to ask "how-to" and other questions around the DeltaV system.
However, it's important to keep in mind that Twitter is a public communications medium. No proprietary information, customer names, trade secrets, financial information or other information restricted by your organization's human resource policies should be communicated via Twitter. If at all in doubt, review well thought out policies like IBM's blogger guidelines.
Getting Started
- Establish an account on Twitter.
- Visit my page, twitter.com/JimCahill and click the "follow" button. We're now connected and I'll get an email to connect back you.
- Next follow twitter.com/DeltaV so you can see all the members in our DeltaV Twitter community.
- I recommend using Tweet Scan to monitor DeltaV tweets- DeltaV query (RSS Feed).
- When you post about DeltaV, you may want to include @DeltaV. This identifies your post with the DeltaV account, which follows all the known DeltaV-interested global community members.
- TinyURL is a handy site to shrink a long URL you want to use in one of your posts (a.k.a "tweets".) I recommend adding it to your web browser toolbar to easily create short URLs when you are on the page your want to reference.
- I use a PC client Twhirl to post and look at the posts from the people I follow. It requires that Adobe Air be installed first. You'll need administrative access to your PC for installation.
I've set up a fast way to populate your Twitter "Follow list" with the known DeltaV Twitterers. Visit Twitterator.org, fill in your Twitter login credentials, and fill in the URL box with: http://www.emersonprocessxperts.com/DeltaVTwitterers.txt
Hit submit to import the list of DeltaV Twitterers.
You can also see recent DeltaV Twitter community "tweets" in the DeltaV crowd at CrowdStatus.com.
If you know of others who might want to join us, please forward this URL to them. Also, let me know if I can clarify anything written here.
