Blogs 2

Well this isn't really about blogs, but an expanded idea based around blogs.

If you have read the comments posted on my last 'Blogs' post, you'll see that myself and the owner of Conservatory Blog have been pondering the idea of a twitter group or network, instead of a network of blogs. In hindsight, although blogs are great for wanting to publish ideas and longer articles, time is a factor in two respects. The first would be the time directors or managers of companies would have to take to work on their blog, reply to comments or messages etc, it's not realistic or feasible to think this is possible. Second is the time it would take for messages to be replied to, messages to be sent, feedback would be slow, so companies using blogs to get instant feedback would be disappointed.

This is where Conservatory Blog stepped in with the idea of a twitter group. Everybody can follow everybody else, replies and messages are far quicker, instant messages can be sent to specific followers. And then there's the TweetDeck. This is an application stored on a desktop which allows tweets to be posted without having to go to twitter.com every time you wish to post something. Plus you are still able to see what others are tweeting about, send messages and store the more important tweets and messages. If every company director or manager had TweetDeck installed, once they've learned how to use it, it becomes a fast, easy to use application, thus allowing an industry-wide twitter group to be formed easily and quickly.

But there will still be a need for blogs, the idea behind the industry communicating as a whole is to share, create and develop new ideas, solve problems or discuss any other important issues. With Twitter having a character cap of just 140, not much in-depth discussion is going to take place.

Here's the possible scenario: if this were to work, I believe blogs and Twitter would have to run aside each other. Twitter would be the breeding ground for new ideas, innovations, inside information, FAQ's etc. But blogs would then play their role to host the larger, wider, more in-depth discussion to build on those ideas, innovations, information and to answer those FAQ's.

An idea came to mind before I started to type this. If either myself, Conservatory Blog, or both, were to compose an email to be sent to as many company directors/managers, explaining our idea and vision, opening their eyes to the advantages and the many positives for their company and industry, could we start something revolutionary?