What is the Return on Tweeting (ROT) at Meetings?

 

Calling All Green Citizens 7/21/09

 

TwMeet…MTweet…TwMeet…

Is the twitterization of meetings the end of the line for intellectual capital? If we reduce our brain activity to 140 characters are we only producing intellectual spitballs? In place of robust dialogue are we facilitating feeble jabs at exploring complex solutions? Are we enabling electronic graffiti to have the look and feel of work?

Meetings use to produce white papers and research. Can a Tweet Deck replace these? Or will the Google Ph.D Nano Engineers give us software that can sort the Tweet Deck for a solution, a way out of the broken processes, a new paradigm? Is there no one looking back and asking, "who threw the baby out with the bath water?" Are we going forward with only Web 2.0 tools and abandoning books, reports and thesis?

Are we at the crossroads of Tweet vs. Meet? What about face time, storytelling, dialogue with resolution, DEBATE!? Are the sustainability officers at our businesses going to declare travel for meetings is unsustainable and we should just stay home and twitter it out?

Let's agree that we don't let meetings and travel devolve to a Blackberry and iPhone orgy. Let's keep think tanks and brainstorming alive with vibrant old school peer to peer learning. Shall we agree to a synergy between boomers and GenXYZers and rock the world with bright new innovative meetings?

 

Be Well, Behave and Be Green

 

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Kim is on the Board of Directors for the Financial and Insurance Conference Planners association (FICP) where he is Vice President of Education. He volunteers on the, CIC's APEX/ASTM Green Meetings Events Panel. He is currently an Event Marketing Specialist with Guardian Investor Services LLC, NY, NY. Kim received the award of Greenest Meeting Planner of 2009 at the Green Travel Summit in March 2009.