Consort Partners

We're very excited to welcome our brand new and super smart intern, Kyle Lemle, to our team this week.  One of his jobs will be updating our new Consort Partners Twitter account which you can follow below (I know, I know... took me long enough... but heck, I've personally been on Twitter since 2006, so please forgive me). 

I also wanted to give a shout out to two new contributors to this blog (because I know you were dying for a fresh perspective and not just my personal take on things).  Mark De la Viña and Dominic Johnson have both quietly debuted on the blog, but look for more of their posts in the future.  Mark is an incredible writer - no surprise as he's a former journalist with the San Jose Mercury News, the LA Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Arizona Republic, among others.  Dominic is the co-founder of Consort and has a natural talent for messaging, sound bites and positioning.

Finally, here's a line-up of some of the Consorts on Twitter:

Consort Partners (general)

Mark de la Viña

Dominic Johnson

Heddi Cundle

Paul Brady

I was just reading this blog post which showed the profile of the person who was Ashton Kutcher's one millionth follower. Interesting that this person has never Tweeted yet has several followers and is only following two. This isn't exactly indicative of what Twitter is - or should I say, has been. I've enjoyed it for the two- or multi-way communications. But I've noticed that more and more people are coming on to Twitter that don't participate - or they overly "participate" by constantly sending salesy Tweets. I've noticed a big change in the patterns of people who follow/unfollow me and how I do the same. A shift is occurring and it's changing the landscape. Will it remain a conversant community or will it become a platform of eaos and sales pitches?

Ever go to the store with your list of things to buy, then realize you left it on the counter when you get there? ReQall to the rescue. But what's even cooler for me, is that I can be driving by the pet store and will receive an IM that I need to pick up another 25 lb of bird seed (we've got a bunch of hungry twitterers, and I don't mean the digital kind)!

Check out David Pogue's "State of the Art" column for his full review.