Twitter for Business

Kudos to @graubart, @ppearlman, @harrisj and @pop17 for a terrific SIIA Brown Bag lunch on Twitter for Business.  The event was sold out and the webcast was flaky for awhile apparently because so many people were tuning in.  But once it got going the discussion and q/a were excellent.  There weren't necessarily any "aha" moments, but what came across was that, as Phil explained, it's still very early days.  Although there's lots of growth and hype, there's much going on behind the scenes at Twitter and at companies building on the Twitter platform.  "Just be awesome." Sarah's contribution was describing what was possible using Twitter - it can be used in exciting, engaging and imaginative ways. For Sarah, imaginative seems to be the operative word.  And again, the surface has barely been scratched. Ex-Alacra super developer and Twitter evangelist Jake Harris described how the NY Times is experimenting with many different Twitter feeds for different sections of the paper.  He lent some technology and established-company gravitas to the session.  Finally, Barry and the audience were superb. Barry did a great job moderating and I thought that the audience asked thoughtful questions, which is not always the case with these types of events.  The video of the session can be viewed on Barry's blog.