A couple of months ago, when this blog hit 3 years of conversations with you, I put out a call to participate in an eBook about connections on Twitter - thus Twittertales was born.
Dirk Cajada, who I met on Twitter during a #kaizenblog chat, offered to help design the eBook. He did a fantastic job with it, as you can see when you download the PDF.
Thanks also go to the contributors - Michael Winn, Danny Brown, Scott Hepburn, Janet Barclay, Arik Hanson, Gloria Bell, Teresa Basich, Caroline Di Diego, and Dirk Cajada.
Introduction to the idea
Because so many have been quite incredulous as to the value of spending time on Twitter, instead of writing a tutorial on how to do that effectively - Twitter is a tool of the moment - I thought it would be more interesting to help tell the story through those of the people who've made valuable connections via Twitter.
I put the question out in a post:
- Did you make connections on Twitter?
- Did the connection lead to a friendship, project, career opportunity, meaningful and purposeful new something?
Several responded by adding their connection story to the comments or as a post on their blog.
Talk can and does change our lives.
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If you need an eBook, contact Dirk Cajada at eBook Craft.
© 2006-2009 Valeria Maltoni. All rights reserved.
Excellent read! I think this is going to be invaluable to anyone who uses Twitter, both those starting out and the Twitterverse "veterans".
Posted by: Planetwebfoot | November 27, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Great compilation of amazing connections!
Posted by: scentrella | November 27, 2009 at 02:29 PM
@Cheryl - thank you. Eager to hear about the story you liked best.
@Sherrie - lovely to receive a comment from you. Hope you had a great holiday weekend!
Posted by: Valeria Maltoni | November 29, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Valeria: this is a great collection of short, inspiring stories!
In what may be a recursive example of the themes of your book, a friend I initially met via Twitter, @CoffeeShopChat, sent me a link to your eBook over the long weekend, and I used an excerpt from the first story as to finish off a post I just wrote reviewing the book, "Consequential Strangers", in which I note:
"Each story - which are all longer than 140 characters, but less than two pages - represents a consequential acquaintanceship established via Twitter that led to 'a friendship, project, career opportunity, [or] meaningful and purposeful new something'. Although Maltoni doesn't use the term, I believe these are all compelling examples of what Blau and Fingerman call consequential strangers."
The full blog entry can be found here:
http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2009/11/consequential-strangers-and-acquaintanceships-online-and-offline.html
Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Joe McCarthy | November 30, 2009 at 01:53 PM
Fun e-book to read; I can vouch that Twitter is a great place to meet like-minded people. Several I have met online have become friends; some I've met in person. Some have contributed to my blog or vice-versas. It's a great way to open doors, and I continue to be impressed by the good folks I meet there.
Posted by: Tim Patterson | November 30, 2009 at 03:19 PM
@Joe - liking the impromptu sharing of your story here. Thank you. "Consequential strangers" I like that a lot!
@Tim - it started with meeting people who blog and now people who tweet. It is so great to have names and faces to look forward to putting a full person behind.
Posted by: Valeria Maltoni | November 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM