Twitter

Honestly, I have never heard of Twitter before reading the assignment for this week. After reading the posts that our Professor tagged, I now have an initial understanding of Twitter although I know that for our next lab, we will create a Twitter account and will explore its tools. This means that after this Wednesday, I will gain a better understanding of Twitter.

Let me share with you my first impression of what I read about Twitter and how I feel about it at this point.

First and far most important, as always, I have many questions about Twitter. I have not and will not explore for answers to my questions because I do not want my thoughts to be satisfied, at least not for the time being. Perhaps after the lab on Wednesday, I will have a change of heart as I'm sure that I will change some parts to this post to reflect a better more informative experience that I gained about or after using Twitter.

My second point to my first impression is that only after reading the first few lines of the assigned readings, Twitter appeared to be just another social utility like facebook. I honestly do not like favebook and have closed my account as a result. I feel that since I got into the social networking era, it became a hard habit to leave and very time consuming.

Third and last point for this post. I find Twitter a social networking utility with a large potential to grow. At this stage, the company is struggling a bit with its IT staff and keeping the system running without glitches. As any and even current www company, those challenges are just part of the nature of being online. Another reason why I think that Twitter will grow in popularity is because this company has different uses that can actualy be useful and make the lives of its users easier and more convenient.

If you would like to read more on my thoughts, come back and visit after Wednesday when we complete our lab on Twitter.

Brainstorming N Teams

How do you brainstorm?

Think of a storm of ideas going through your head. Now, dodge all of it down, no matter how bad the idea sounds to you. Basically, that is the way I define brainstorming.

The traditional meaning of brainstorming is that it's done in teams either individually or collectively. When done individually, then the term is "Virtual Brainstorming". This has been the terminology for many years until the introduction of the internet.

Now, virtual teams can be referred to: virtual characters of people who work in a team as pointed out by my classmate Na Rae in her post Communication matters of virtual team- working.

Originally, from my experience, I always thought that brainstorming generated better results when done directly together in teams. In fact, I think and produce better ideas when I work in teams versus alone. This is obviously the case when the brainstorming process is done right although it's not as efficient as working individually.

Today, I found out that I was wrong. After reading this post: Brainstorming? Try doing it virtually by Jessica Lipnack who quoted some research results, I came to realize what I was missing from the bigger picture. According to research studies, virtual brainstorming outperforms brainstorming groups nearly by two times.