White Paper Pundit

I think there’s an old Paul Simon song called “Something So Right” that contains the line, “When something goes wrong I’m the first to admit it”.

Well those are the words I am thinking about right now when I think about how I felt about Twitter just a few short weeks ago. In fact, I indicated that I would report back to you within a month. I don’t need to wait that long. The bottom line is that Twitter is fantastic!

To those who haven’t jumped into the Twitter fold, the best way to describe it is a combination between a blog, instant messaging, email, an online forum, and a bulletin board…essentially all the great communication vehicles on the Internet. I know that may sound impossible, but it’s difficult to describe Twitter without jumping headfirst into it.

In a very short time, I have been able to establish a presence on Twitter and gain a small but growing following.

There is one person that I need to thank for turning me onto Twitter: Mike Stelzner. Mike was the one who suggested I create a blog two years ago and recently did the same with Twitter. Thank you Mike!

Mike is a great example of the best of the online B2B marketing industry. He is probably the single best marketer that I have come to know over the eight years that I have been writing white papers and running an online business. No stone is left unturned when Mike decides to jump into a marketing project. Everything he touches turns to gold and it shows with each initiative he has been involved with.

Besides his business and marketing acumen, Mike is a good guy. He walks the talk in his personal life as well as his business life. A moral and decent person, a good family man, someone who bends over backward to help his fellow business associate (even his competitors!). I consider meeting Mike and being associated with him one of the high points of my professional career and I am grateful for his tutelage in allowing me to work with him in each of his marketing activities.

Anyway, if you haven’t tried Twitter, you’re missing out! In a world where we make snap judgements everyday, you can’t afford (like I did) to pre-judge Twitter.

As long as we’re quoting old lines, as an old Alka-Seltzer commercial used to say, “Try it….You’ll like it!”

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