December 11 2008
Some people want to know what time it is, and some people want to know how the watch is made.
My blessing and my curse is I don’t ever do anything half-ass. My other curse if I have a crippling fear of failure. I’m either in or I’m not in. And, if I’m in, I like to have studied up on the subject so I can go in source credible and do whatever I’m doing with a reasonable amount of competence.
I want to know how the watch is made. Context is everything. Life isn’t black and white, it’s gradations of gray.
And, so it is that I’m a relatively later adopter of Twitter. I didn’t want to do it in a half-baked way, babbling nonsense, and I wanted to understand it. I know, I know, it’s almost 2009. Am I that dense ...?
While I still don’t know if I completely understand Twitter, I do know that a lot of wine bloggers at the Wine Bloggers Conference were fast friends based on their Twitter relationships. And, I also know that doing right by wine blogging and the wine social media landscape is important to me. Now is the time to hitch a ride on this Twitter wagon. If you’d like to follow me on Twitter, please do so here.
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Jeff-Welcome to our group…uh, cult…uh, good times! I do think that Twitter helped me connect faster with people at WBC. I’ve been on Twitter since last March and it’s a great way to constantly chatter with similarly minded folks and get exposure for your blog. Because of Twitter, I had a place to stay in CA both before and after the WBC, connected with vineyards to go visit, and got to get together with a great group of winos on a work trip to San Francisco. Plus, it makes me feel a bit more connected to the whole wine world, being fairly far away from the center of action out in CA.
We were wondering what took you so long.
Welcome to the jungle.
Knowing you, you will thrive, not just survive.
How many books did you read on twitter before you finally joined the family?
Ahem, Corey is a friend so I feel perfectly normal in saying that he is a smart ass.
And, I didn’t read any books. Read a book to understand how to write 140 characters? I like to know things, but I’m not that dumb.
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Welcome to Twitter Senor.
You’ll spend 3wks trying to get it, and then 3 months trying to get away from it.
If Facebook is opium, Twitter is smack…