Mediaphyter - A Communications Cocktail

Since the start of the year I’ve been obsessively soaking up as much education as I could on the benefits and best practices of social media. It’s definitely a craft that requires much external assessment and dissection (no, really, it does). I figured that tonight, however, I would jump on the Twitter-fad-of-the-week bandwagon and create myself a little tweet cloud and see what it says about me. Oh, what’s a tweet cloud? It’s like a tag cloud… but of tweets. I don’t know a more simple way to explain that.

I’m not going to sit here and read through the varied blue text and attempt to ascertain some personal branding epiphany or comment on the state of business. I am going to follow in the footsteps of my friend Mukund Mohan and have fun with it.

First, my tweet cloud:

First, I like to talk about Twitter. I don’t think that’s shocking to anyone who knows me — especially those folks who met me at SOURCE Boston. I was doing so much recruiting for Security Twits that I had more than a few people ask me if I actually work for Twitter (I don’t). Clearly, I’m doing too good of a job, so dear Twitter, I am going to try to shut up about you for a while. Oh, and speaking of the Security Twits, um, yeah. I seem to like to talk about them as well. Or to them. Or about them. My employer might be most pleased with that (as well as the standalone mention of security as a top tweet) since that’s in line with what I actually get paid to do.

Enough about business-related tweets. Let’s look at the softer side of Jen. I find it quite comical that punctuation is stripped from the tweet cloud. The word “ill” seems to be one of my more prominent utterances. I could become paranoid (I do work in security after all) and presume that the tweet cloud is trying to imply something, but really that highlight should be the word “I’ll“. I’m not so certain that “I’ll” is much better than “ill” anyway. With the latter, I’m sick. With the former, I’m just self-centered.

Or am I? You’ll see that I am a very grateful person. I thank people a lot — in three different forms, albeit only in one language. I’ll work on that. Thanks, tweet cloud, for pointing out my lack of multilingual skills. See. There I ago again, being appreciative.

I work a lot, though clearly not as much as I think. I suppose that means that I’m spending more time pondering than actually doing. Shhh. Don’t tell anyone. Wait for me to do it myself. Via Twitter.

Finally, I have much love to give but my need seems to be bigger than my focus on love. Since this is a professional-facing blog I won’t make any snarky comments about myself there. I’ll leave it to mystery (or to the handful of friends who know me all too well to giggle about in private).

While these were the greatest tweet themes for me, I need to call out some awesome honorable mentions:

• Hockey / Sharks (yes, they should be in the same category)
• lol
• sorry
• damn
• scrabulous
• stupid
• yay

That’s right. I’m @mediaphyter. I like hockey, I laugh, I curse, I play word games, I apparently do something stupid and I cheer. I’m one of the most prolific twits on the planet. You can quote me on that. Wait, my tweet cloud already did.