Live-Tweeting: Data Governance
Jim Harris in Data Quality, Events, Social Media, Vendors tagged Baseline Consulting, Data Governance, Initiate Systems, Jill Dyché, Marty Moseley, Twitter Friday, December 4, 2009 at 9:24PM The term “live-tweeting” describes using Twitter to provide near real-time reporting from an event. I live-tweet from the sessions I attend at industry conferences as well as interesting webinars.
Recently, I live-tweeted Successful Data Stewardship Through Data Governance, which was a data governance webinar featuring Marty Moseley of Initiate Systems and Jill Dyché of Baseline Consulting.
Instead of writing a blog post summarizing the webinar, I thought I would list my tweets with brief commentary. My goal is to provide an example of this particular use of Twitter so you can decide its value for yourself.
As the webinar begins, Marty Moseley and Jill Dyché provide some initial thoughts on data governance:
Jill Dyché provides a great list of data governance myths and facts:
Jill Dyché provides some data stewardship insights:
As the webinar ends, Marty Moseley and Jill Dyché provide some closing thoughts about data governance and data quality:
Please Share Your Thoughts
If you attended the webinar, then you know additional material was presented. Did my tweets do the webinar justice? Did you follow along on Twitter during the webinar? If you did not attend the webinar, then are these tweets helpful?
What are your thoughts in general regarding the pros and cons of live-tweeting?
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The following three blog posts are conference reports based largely on my live-tweets from the events:
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Reader Comments (7)
Feedback provided via Twitter:
Data Quality Pro: Great summary of points raised
Jill Dyché: That was some SLAMMIN' live-tweeting of the Initiate Systems webcast! You got all the highlights!!!
Jim,
Thanks for live-tweeting this webinar. As I've said before, you skills at picking out the key points are beyond excellent. I find these live-tweets to be highly valuable, as it happened I could not join this webinar and having the ability to follow the key points in near real time, as well as re-visit them after the fact is a significant benefit.
Keep it up and here's to your next live-tweeting session.
Cheers,
Charles
Hi Jim,
I did attend the webinar, and I think your tweets were outstanding and did do a great deal of justice! I also followed the tweets at the same time I was watching the presentation, and sometimes used them to confirm I wasn't hallucinating ;-)
If you've seen my last posting on Making Data Governance as simple as possible, but not simpler, part 2 you can also validate I've been using your tweets afterwards too. Extremely useful indeed, thank you VERY much.
Thanks,
Dalton
Hi Jim,
Got to say, I'm a big fan of the live-tweets. Quite often I'll be too busy to sign up for a webinar so it gives me an inside scoop on the content, if I agree with the tweets or find some of the points raised interesting or even contentious, then I'm more likely to watch the on-demand version, you are in fact acting as a pre-qualifier for the masses!
I've spoken to a number of people recently who are very negative towards Twitter but it's clear they don't really get it and have yet to apply it to their own business or career.
Just think how it focuses attention and dialogue, like in the case above of the Jill and Marty presentation, people now have a focal point to debate the points raised and enter into discussion with the presenters themselves long after the webinar has closed.
I also think it forces vendors to raise their game. I've sat in on a lot of very dull webinars which soon switch from the content promised to a thinly veiled product sales pitch. I think tools like Twitter allow us to vent our frustration and disappointment in real-time so will increasingly become a collective "voting system" to ensure vendors (and media producers like ourselves) to push our standards higher.
So, a rambling comment that basically says yes, I'm in favor of what you're doing, keep up the good work.
Dylan
Dylan,
I like your point that live-tweeting forces vendors to raise their game.
Does that mean though that we are going to get webinars full of 140 character sound bytes or have they always just been there and it takes someone with the OCD capacities like Jim to pull them out?
I favor the later.
Cheers,
Charles
Thanks Charles, Dalton, and Dylan for your comments.
To Charles' last point - I enjoy live-tweeting, in part, because it allows me to use my OCD powers for good ;-)
Best Regards,
Jim
Hey Jim,
As usual, you set the standard for live-tweeting!
Others try it from time to time and usually you get a bunch of noise, but not you, my friend!
Jill says you were SLAMMIN' and I say you're OFF THE HOOK! Yeah, she's hipper than I am, but that's ok!
I can't thank you enough for helping all of us get smarter!
Cheers!
Marty