In the age of speed, we have to get things done faster and better than ever before. This presentation considers how social media can be used to manage projects so project teams can keep pace.

1. Project Management by Twitter: Managing Projects in a Social World Your facilitator is: Alison Sigmon, M.Ed., LPC, PMP

3. What was what is what it’s becoming

4. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, chances are you’ve got some inkling that Web 2.0 has shed its toddler status. So, what’s that got to do with project management? Well, if you do a keyword search on project management and Web 2.0 or social media , it seems not much that yet. Technology helps us get things done and there’s nothing new about biz wanting it done bigger, better, faster, but with Web 2.0 faster just took on lightening speed. Zero to the speed of light in less than four years…

9. Context for Web 2.0 & why a Project Manager should care

10. *50 Feet Rule People are less likely to collaborate more than once a week if they are more than 50 feet apart. *Proxemics, created by MIT Professor Tom Allen, is based on North American culture p. 10 We’ve been virtual for a while…now we just have new toys! Social 4’-12’ Public 12’-25’ Collocated <50’ Virtual Community >50’ >50’ between people = Virtual Environment Personal 18”- 4’ Interaction

12. How companies are using 2.0 tech “… business use 12 technologies and tools : blogs, mash-ups (a Web application that combines multiple sources of data into a single tool), microblogging, peer to peer, podcasts, prediction markets, rating, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), social networking, tagging, video sharing, and wikis Significant increases in the percentage of companies using social networking ( 40% ) and blogs ( 38% ). Number of employees using the dozen Web 2.0 technologies continues to increase. Nearly half of the companies that use social networking say at least 51% of their employees use it.” https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/The_rise_of_the_networked_enterprise_Web_20_finds_its_payday_2716

13. Right tool for the right task (oh, and for the right person too)

14. Virtual Reality…project style Communicating across time zones and geographic boundaries results in a variety of team interactions as shown above Same Time / Same Place (face-to-face meetings) Different Time / Same Place (chat room, shared work file, or instant messaging) Different Time / Different Place (e-mail, voicemail, or message board) Same Time — Different Place (audio or video conference) p. 13

16. Coloring outside the lines managing projects in a Social world

21. Google Docs – same time doc sharing, IM, version control Issue log Task management

23. Sharepoint – use as a message board or simple blog

24. Manage tasks through Evernote

25. Get organized before managing projects in the social space Decide what you want to do and then pick the tool that best suits it Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter

27. Thank you! Alison Sigmon, M.Ed, LPC, PMP [email_address]