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Bo Jensen
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"I made an effort and searched the whole membership directory of this open forum (yes, over 8k items) for people I know. These I invited to become contacts"
Until now I felt so special, like I was your only twitter friend, that hurts Marco.. :-)
There was a social media session some years ago (before you joined twitter.. ;-)), which mainly tried to recruit OR people to start using social media more for work and not only for private friends on facebook etc. Surprisingly the room was packed and some good discussions about pros and cons, but there was a large skepticism, some even really against social media.
Now a couple of years later, I see the very same skeptical people signing up at twitter or other social services. The OR group on social media is growing rapidly and people not using it, is less likely to follow the newest trends as instant as those who do.
I mainly use twitter and google+, twitter for daily posts and google+ for longer more detailed posts. The topics I post about is a mix of work related, but also other experiences or opinions from my non-working life. The post which are work related are typically about either OR or topics from the programming world.
One of the things I like about twitter and google+ is the follower pattern, which is not at all like Facebook. On Facebook you follow your friends and what ever they post of private stuff you may or may not want to see. On twitter and google+, people follow you based on content posted, if it's interesting they will stay if not they will unfollow you. With that in mind, I can post what ever I want, no expectations, people will just leave silently if they don't like it !
Original Message:
Sent: 05-09-2014 09:40
From: Marco Luebbecke
Subject: your use of social media
Hi all,
so let's try this out. I made an effort and searched the whole membership directory of this open forum (yes, over 8k items) for people I know. These I invited to become contacts. A lot agreed, but some responded via personal email, they were not interested in (even actively avoided) any kind of social networks.
I would be interested, in general, how you use social media in your professional lives, be it academic or non-academic. Does your institution have a "private" social medium? In some sense, INFORMS connect is such a medium, some people reacted like "Just *another* facebook? Why?", so what would you answer? What is the benefit of being part of INFORMS connect, and - more generally - of engaging with social media? Where should this develop?
Thanks for sharing thoughts,
Marco
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Marco Luebbecke
profess_OR
RWTH Aachen University
www.or.rwth-aachen.de/luebbecke/
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