Global Product Management Talk on twitter

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Introducing Global Product Management Talk on Twitter Founder & co-host @ProdMgmtTalk http://www.prodmgmttalk.com Cindy F. Solomon, CPM/CPMM

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Presented at Silicon Valley Product Camp, April 2, 2011

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IntroducingGlobal Product Management Talk on Twitter

Founder & co-host @ProdMgmtTalkhttp://www.prodmgmttalk.com

Cindy F. Solomon, CPM/CPMM

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What is #ProdMgmtTalk?

It’s a Twitter chat for product managers and other professionals involved with product

management from around the world and is open to the public for participation.

@ProdMgmtTalkhttp://www.prodmgmttalk.com

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Who is behind #ProdMgmtTalk?

Cindy F. Solomon, CPM/CPMM Founder & Producer

Co-hosted by Cindy @cindyfsolomon

and Adrienne Tan of @brainmates

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Tweet travelled 7400 milesJanuary, 2011 1. Cindy lurks, participates & recognizes value of twitter

chats from #b2bchat, #blogchat, & #pr20chat2. IDEA! a weekly twitter forum for product management 3. Tweets out from San Francisco bay area for collaborator4. Adrienne Tan of brainmates tweets back from Australia

February, 2011The Global Product Management Talk on Twitter launches with Steven Haines, Author of Product Manager’s Desk Reference

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Mission• Engage Product people in utilizing social media• Showcase experts, speakers, bloggers & thought leaders• Evangelize Product related job titles as exciting, challenging &

rewarding career endeavors• Raise important issues that all Product Management 

professionals confront• Educate & share resources across industries and borders• Facilitate on-going dialogue, networking, mentoring & support

beyond weekly events• Create global community of product management knowledge 

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Who should join in?• Professional Product Managers• Those responsible for managing products from

inception through launch• People with the title and/or in the department of “Product

Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Product Management”

• People who develop products, are responsible for products, are concerned with the success of products

• Companies that produce products!• CEOs, founders, developers, investors, project managers,

designers, etc. • Anyone interested in Product Management issues

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Who Can Join?

YOU and your colleagues!

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What do you talk about?

Each week we invite a Product Management thought leader to lead us in a particular topic.

The Product Management expert tweets answers to pre-posted questions during the hour,

while everyone chimes in on the tweet stream.

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What topics?To date, we have discussed:

• Best In Class Product Management• Establishing Market Authority• Innovation is Just Good Product Management• Building a PM Organization• Using Market Insights Effectively• Use of Social Media in Product Management• To Agile or Waterfall...Does it Matter?• Voice of the Customer

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Who Speaks?So far, these thought leaders have presented:•  Steven Haines, Author, The Product Manager’s Desk

Reference • Scott Sehlhorst, President, Tyner Blain• Jim Holland, Director, Product Marketing, Rally Software• Roger Cauvin, Product strategist  & Founder•  Saeed Khan, Product Management, On Product

Management • Paul Alex Gray, Strategic PM, brainmates • Mark Mansour, Founder, Agile Bench • Jose A. Briones, Ph.D. General Manager CSI Incorporated • Jeff Lash, VP, Product Manager & Author, How To Be a

Good  Product Manager

              Future speakers include: April Dunford & Rich Mironov

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Why Twitter?

Twitter provides a unique mode of ambient intimacy in real-time, enabling people from all over the world to express themselves, exchange knowledge, share

experiences and find the latest developments around the world.

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How Do I Participate?

There are several ways...

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Hashtag: #ProdMgmtTalk

Hashtags (keywords prepended with a “#”) demarcate tweets into searchable metadata - in the case of Twitter conversations, they signify a rallying

point for participants.

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Search TwitterSearch Twitter (Search.Twitter.com) for

#ProdMgmtTalk to view a real-time chronological order of tweets demarcated as #ProdMgmtTalk

(be sure to include the # symbol).

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Twitter ClientsFollowing a Twitter chat can be difficult to follow since regular tweets and tweets marked with a hashtag can be difficult to segregate in real-time.

Fortunately, there are third-party applications which streamline participation into a focused channel

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TweetChatThird-party applications enhance the value of

Twitter. TweetChat (TweetChat.com) is an example of one such client. It displays only the tweets

bearing the hashtag you wish it to display, thus focusing your attention.

http://tweetchat.com/room/prodmgmttalk

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TwebEventTwebevent (Twebevent.com) provides a dashboard

for a specific chat event and displays only the tweets bearing the hashtag you wish it to display,

thus focusing your attention.

http://www.twebevent.com/prodmgmttalk

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Other ApplicationsTweetDeck – TweetGrid

The best way to learn how to use Twitter is to sign up to Twitter and simply follow along the hashtag

during one of the chats. Most new users – even the skeptical - figure it out quickly.

Twitter Tool FAQ’s http://bit.ly/i88OuC

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Other Tweet chats“Tweet Chats are a growing trend”

Currently there are 350 scheduled chatsTwitter Chat Schedule

http://bit.ly/e4NAQg

Follow @twchat for tweets about new chats added

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Timeweekly

Mondays in USA=4:00-5:00 PM PST (California)

7:00 – 8:00 PM EST (NYC)= Tuesdays in Australia

9:00 – 10:00 AM EDT

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Follow@ProdMgmtTalk

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At web site:

• Speaker schedule• background information• transcripts of twitter talk• twitter lists of participants• blogging follow-up• Sponsor opportunity

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Questions?Follow and reply to @ProdMgmtTalk

or email [email protected]

@cindyfsolomonhttp://www.twitter.com/cindyfsolomon

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Twitter TalksWant your own Twitter Talk?

Contact Cindy F. SolomonProducing Twitter Talks that:

• Cultivate your Knowledge Community• Recognize & promote Thought leaders• Engage community around your brand• Facilitate rich content creation via collective

intelligence    http://www.twittertalks.com

@cindyfsolomon http://www.cindyfsolomon.com

[email protected] 510-779-0175