Is social media for projects a waste of time?

Elizabeth Harrin Director| RebelsGuideToPM.com London, England, United Kingdom

This is the topic I discussed with some colleagues interested in the uses of social media for project management. Our discussion ended up as this podcast: http://parallelprojecttraining.libsyn.com/..._waste_of_time_

If you listen to it, you'll hear that I come down on the side that it is worth investigating the uses of social media for project management. But not everyone is in agreement. What do you think?

Posted: Jun 26, 2010 12:59 PM

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Josh Nankivel Engineering Project Manager| Apple Sioux Falls, Sd, United States

Great show! Here's Elizabeth's link in clickable format, I recommend everyone listen!

I suppose it depends on what your definition of social media is...people tend to think of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn among others (at the moment). I would also point people to this interview of Hal Macomber by Bas De Baar for more on this topic.

-Josh

Posted: Jun 27, 2010 4:35 PM

Josh Nankivel Engineering Project Manager| Apple Sioux Falls, Sd, United States

I just listened to the part about "controlling what your team is saying" and was rooting you on Elizabeth.

I come from a very Theory-Y perspective and so in my opinion, if my team can't be trusted to talk to my customer, I may be thinking about replacing them. I wrote about this just a bit ago: Are You The Bottleneck?

Posted: Jun 27, 2010 4:54 PM

Bas de Baar Zandvoort, Netherlands

Hi absolutely agree with Elizabeth and Josh... (perhaps no surprise).

Good stuff!

Posted: Jun 28, 2010 8:42 AM

Elizabeth Harrin Director| RebelsGuideToPM.com London, England, United Kingdom

Josh, thanks! I haven't worked out how to put clickable links in yet :(

Posted: Jul 2, 2010 2:50 PM

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