Most of you know that Twitter can be used for much more than just announcing what you ate for breakfast. Many of you already know Twitter’s value in business, but you can still take it further and use it to land gigs, market your business, grow your network and gain free publicity — all in 140 characters or less. Marketing. MORE >>

Personal knowledge management can be very useful and when it is social it can serve many purposes. Can twitter serve this function? Here is an interesting post from Andre Yee at eBizQ, Is Twitter's Growth Sustainable? The simplicity of Twitter is a large part of tits power. Twitter does the social part fairly well. MORE >>

The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine. The question always comes up “why would we be interested in something like Twitter. Is a Twitter topic a seed for a new community? MORE >>

At almost the same time last week a friend on Twitter and a mailing list mentioned James Robertson's Knowledge managers: stuck in the shadow of immortal figures. The ideals set far too high a barrier to actually get anything done: [The list of work practices] leaves knowledge managers stuck in the shadow of immortal figures. MORE >>

It works … for example, late last night I twittered a response to one of Jeremiah Owyang’s tweets pointing to his recent blog post about " What’s After The Social Web? tell me more "   A professional, potentially knowledge-building, conversation is brewing. Maybe they can still sell a knowledge platform? MORE >>