Monthly Archives: February 2009

Tweet-Tweet it’s Twitter

So Linda has sent in an article on Twitter, State of the Art, already putting us into the heart of the trend in media discussions- is Twitter really important? Is it the next “thing”? Or is it just another talk about me, me, and me?

The question then becomes is this a part of Organizational Communication, will companies and or institutions begin to use twitter to produce better work habits, better communication or just more employees having personal time at the work place?

I can certainly say that at The Schwartz Institute two of my colleagues are on twitter all day long and use it as a networking tool and a get the information first tool. The networking side is great, we have already found out other similar centers and staff and other universities doing similar work as our selves. Just being able to get their feedback and their resources has been helpful as well as giving the Institute new recognition in our field.

I however feel the get the news before everyone else part of the twitter tool is a sort of adolescent stress; did you know, so and so told me, noooo really?!

Any thoughts?

Spring 2009

So we are off to our new start, a new semester, where I will not be teaching and Linda is now joining us as one of the thinkers and shapers of the Managerial Communication Course. Though I will not be teaching this semester, I am committed to doing research and posting information and ideas for the course. I also will push all of us to post ideas and teaching experiences so this can be a community project, not just each one of us alone in our corners trying to do the “right” thing.

I have started a new Page on technology where anyone using this blog can go to look up articles on organizations and technology. “Pages” are located on the upper right corner of the blog home page and are  reference areas to find research, articles, chapters, and URL links all of which in someway relate to Managerial Communication. The definition of how they relate to the course is open to interpretation, so do not feel compelled to just post or link credible information. It can be something that just makes us think or laugh as well.

Last semester Caryn and I had talked a great deal about how IT and communication is a new field of study in Managerial Communication and that it will probably keep growing as an area of interest to students and scholars alike. So I will look into some of the work out there and hopefully post a few interesting pieces. And again feel free to add to the collection in any of the Pages.

I would like to suggest to everyone that we begin to link our blog to other blogs dealing with some of the same faculty development questions. In order to do that we will have to take off the password protection, meaning anyone who wishes to see out blog will be able to do so, in short open to the world. Yet to see it someone will have to actually search for it, as we can make it only available at Baruch and not on a google search engine. I will let you all think about it, but I want to hold up the idea of how this is one of the new uses in IT and organizations; how do we work in a format that is semi public? Many educational institutions are beginning to look at these questions, IT now allows the transmission and development of knowledge across the world. So how do leaders, teachers and researchers continue to work and teach yet use the far reaching elements of this new IT communication world?

This is all just food for thought….