“…i don’t care what you think, as long as it’s about me, the best of us can find happiness in misery…”
A while back I wrote a post about why I do not like newsgroups, and how much better the MVP forums are. Some comments were left that indicated I was being an ass for telling people just how great things are now that I am on the other side. Sorry about that, it was not my intent. And no, you don’t have to spend your life in those newsgroups and forums in order to become an MVP, I am proof of that.
Ok, let’s all move forward, shall we? Great, because I have some good news.
Twitter is awesome.
Seriously.
Right now I am following about 300 database professionals. Some are MVPs, most are not. But time and again I see interactions between these professionals the remind me how great it is to be a part of this community. Sure, the private newsgroups are good, but they are no Twitter. So, for those that felt I was being rude to talk about a wonderful private forum, let me tell you about an even better public forum. Get on Twitter and run through the list of people I am following. Even if you just listen in on their discussions you stand to learn quite a lot.
As much as I enjoy browsing the MVP forums for some interesting discussions, I enjoy Twitter a lot more. I can get a lot of good information from both but Twitter seems to be better at giving me some perception on the personality of the person behind the messages.
