Donna FitzgeraldI had a couple of those “you can’t win for losing” moments this week. In the early part of the week I was discussing the role of twitter as an effective tool in a PPM Managers toolbox with one of my peer groups and got told, rather politely, that I was out of my mind. Now there’s nothing new about this group having divergent opinions. We’ve been carrying on discussion like this for over a decade. What I found more interesting was the undertone in the conversation that if I actually believed that this new fangled “thing” had a place in our lives, I was spending too much time thinking about things other than our core area of interest.
Later in the week I was talking to a completely different group of people about how best to communicate with stakeholders and when I shared that my communication method of choice was email I was told with equal “politeness” that I was clearly failing to move with the times and that I would know that twitter was the right medium if I wasn’t suffering from “generational impairment”. Ouch…that one hurt.
So here is my esprit d′escalier: We need to understand that our stakeholders and our peers have a variety of preferred means of communications. If we want to build the widest possible network then we need to be conversant in all of our options and to understand when it makes sense to use multiple methods to disseminate the same message.
So while MY preferred method of communication is still email; I also have this blog and I intend to keep exploring ways to communicate whether it’s twittering (nimblepm) at our fall PPM conference or interacting with our growing Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit group at linkedin.
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Category: Technology Tags: Communication, technology adoption
