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Top Twitter Tips on Project Management

MARCH 28, 2013

Sometimes over the course of your career you will be asked to take unofficial
management of a project. While at first you might get excited that you were entrusted with
this new responsibility, quite quickly it becomes apparent that you are in a sticky situation.

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You have responsibility but no authority. Its totally on you to make sure this project
gets completed on-time and on-budget. But since you were handed over project
leadership unofficially its difficult to get everyone on your side to listen to your instruction.
Now in the old days, mentors might advise you to read some good leadership books, in
hopes that you could improve your communication skills, thus increase your likeability and
then credibility to your team.
However, I know for myself, I buy books way more than I read them. If your attention span
is also of the 21st century variety: impatient even waiting for YouTube to load, thankfully,
youre in luck. Project management is a lot like navigating the fast and furious world of
social media.

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As an unofficial, or newly assigned, project manager, youve got the answers, but no one
sees them. Your genius is getting filtered down the search list with Honey Boo Boo and
Marissa Mayer articles getting top spot. Despite having the know-how, you have no
support.
Youre kinda like the awesome little project management blog
(www.easyprojects.net/blog) with great posts that only the PMPs mom reads.
Your Solution: Respect and Buy-in
You need buy-in: from your team and your boss, in order to really shine. You need
respect. You need SEO because what youre really lacking is effective communication.
Remember the rules of social media: managing, like Twitter, should be a conversation.
1.

2.

Get your followers, or coworkers, to respect you by sharing their success

stories. How many times have you automatically followed someone just because they
retweeted one of your statuses? We like those who like us. Use the concept of
reciprocal liking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_liking), to get your new team
on your side. Remember the quote, I think Oprah said it: We get the respect we think
we deserve. Give respect and accolades to your team and they will be more inclined
to give them right back and think highly of you (and your profession) the whole way
through.
Keep It Short and Sweet. Think of task delegations through the lens of Twitter.

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Top Twitter Tips on Project Management

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Express requests in 140 characters or less. Dont overwhelm your team with blocks of
unnecessary instructions.
3.

Organize Your Projects. You know youve come across a Twitter veteran when their
tweets are spiced with relevant subject hashtags that categorize everything to its
proper Twitter repository. The organizational zest must be done as a project manager.
Having project information organized at your fingerprints is a quick way to let people
know everything is organized and under control.

4.

Regularly Update your stakeholders. 9 times out of 10, hostility towards a project
manager can be attributed to the other persons frustrations with their own job. A lot of
job stress for members of a project team comes from feeling in the dark about their
own progress, and the status, health, and scheduling of the project overall. You can
remove this stress, and likewise their negativity by taking every measure to make sure
all involved stakeholders are fully up-to-date with project news and developments.
These updates can be automated with some types of project management software.

5.

ButDont trash your colleagues newsfeed with pointless infothey have

enough already! The final tip lesson learnt from Twitter warns to take advice #5 in
moderation. It is always good to keep people informed, but there is such thing as being
over-informed. For sure keep your team in the light about whats going on with the
project, and after that abide by the one YouTube a day rule. We all love the boss who
occasionally sends a fun Harlem Shake video, but just like the videos in question, they
can get old fast.

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Vanessa Fiorido is a Marketing Specialist at Easy Projects, a project
management software tool used in over 50 countries around the world. You can
find her blogging and tweeting about project management and Easy Projects
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