The Social Media Project Manager - More Twittering

Yesterday, I mentioned that I was bringing a certain stream of messages from Twitter into the Project Management Guide FriendFeed Room. This is just a short post to let you know about those messages, and also gives me a chance to talk a bit more about Twitter.

One of the ways Twitter users have developed to help each other is something called hash-tags. These are simply tags created by prefixing a hash (#) onto a word. The advantage of this is that it makes it much easier to search for tweets on a specific topic.

The reason for adding the hash is that it means you won’t get all tweets that happen to use that word, but only those which are talking about that topic. For example, the #superbowl tag allowed Twitter users everywhere to search for others talking about the game!

Now, these tags are also used to help create ad-hoc groups. One of these groups is Project Managers on Twitter, also known as PMOT. When members of this group send a tweet they think will be of interest to other group members, they add the tag #pmot.

Group members can find these tweets in various ways (through certain clients, through RSS feeds, through the group webpage, etc.) but the simplest way is just to use the search functionality of the Twitter web site. In the search box, just put in #pmot and click on search to see what is being said.

I hope you find this quick guide useful! Let me know if you join the PMOT group, we’d love to see you there!

Part of The Social Media Project Manager Series.

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3 Comments

  • By Elizabeth, February 18, 2009 @ 5:49 pm

    Thanks, Trevor! I was wondering what the #PMOT was in pmstudent’s tweets. Looks like I have a bit of a learning curve…

  • By Alec Satin - Making Project Management Better, March 23, 2009 @ 9:00 am

    Trevor,

    This explains #PMOT clearly and succinctly. I get it!

    Thanks,
    Alec

  • By Trevor Roberts, March 25, 2009 @ 11:52 am

    Glad you found it useful!

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