Any thoughts on how we can use twitter in PM? - Robert Higgins

Most organisations would consider it too much of risk to have project related tweets showing up in the public timeline, but a PM *could* create an account for a project, and protect the updates (so the only people who can see those updates are the project team members/stakeholders etc invited by the PM). - Andrew Terry

aah i guess so pretty obvious, I didnt think of that - Robert Higgins

How about for Risk Management? In the case of risk events occurring? For example Yammr is good for inside the company email real time micro messages. But for events outside of your organization, in distributed teams who are separated by geography ie time. The risk owners can use it as notification. - Robert Higgins

I like that idea; it would be especially useful in countries where you can still get updates via SMS; in that respect, it's likely to be quicker than email... - Andrew Terry from iPod

Ok, I think I have reached the conclusion that the true answer is the Twitter is only a part of the much more powerful FriendFeed. So it some ways we can use Twitter to feed Friendfeed, but since we can make private groups in FriendFeed, and share files. So twitter is a kind of notifier. or conversation starter - Robert Higgins

Take a look at http://Twittercal.com recently started using it to post to my Google Calendar (DMs to their @gcal bot). Not sure if it would support it for multiple users that have access to a shared calendar, but I don't see why not. It's just fast to place items if people are already heavily using Twitter anyway. - Alex Schleber

@RobertHiggins in general I'd say the kind of Project Mgmt use of Twitter you're proposing would either need Protected accounts, or else just use your own instance of Yammer (corp. Twitter clone with a few extras as well as security and STABILITY.. :) - Alex Schleber

I have been discussing this with some PM in Tokyo, for example on a Mega-Project that involves many people. For example high-speed rail in California. Trad. PM would involve High Level discussion between corporations and Government. Social PM would persuade/influence/collect requirements grassroots from users. High level discussions might talk about material cost; rail stock. Soical PM would talk about train culture, useabillity.... Twitter is a tool to reach out to that group. Friendfeed is a better place to have a persistent conversation. In that situation Open is necessary. - Robert Higgins