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Public CIOs on Twitter
October 19, 2009 By Chris Curran
I can't help but be curious about how executives view social media, so I was determined to find out if CIOs really use Twitter, the microblogging platform where millions peck 140-character messages into cyber-space every day. Since Twitter search is in its infancy, I had to painstakingly cull the Internet to single out CIOs who tweet. So far, I've found more than 152 CIOs, 21 of them from the public sector.
While the word "tweeting" may sound silly, Charlie Catlett, CIO of Argonne National Laboratory, doesn't take his role on Twitter lightly.
"With 'C' in your title, you are more closely tied to your organization than a general employee, so you have a greater responsibility to represent your organization well," said Catlett. "In general I ask myself how my tweet would sound in a newspaper article. I also want to offer my expertise or judgment, to those who care to follow, to make the social networks more useful to others."
On Twitter, users find other people in their industries to "follow." In turn, people follow them back. Messages vary from banal details of someone's day to big breakthroughs in their thinking about a particular subject. According to Linda Cureton, CIO of NASA, users should think of Twitter like a networking event.
"When I first started using Twitter, I would say it was just a science project," Cureton said. "I wanted to experiment with Web 2.0 technologies and understand the value and how it worked firsthand. But, after a while, I developed some valuable professional contacts. It gives me a broader reach than I would normally get here in Washington, D.C., just around the Beltway," she said.
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