A recent interchange on Twitter referred to ‘Eternal Goals’.  Instinctively I felt that eternal goals would (by definition) be unachievable and I began to wonder whether there was a rational basis for my gut reaction.  I also began to ponder the qualitative differences between concepts involving ‘eternity’ and those involving the ‘infinite’.  Here are some of my thoughts.

Shortly after I joined Twitter I started #PoetryTuesday so that people could share their favourite published poems. If you would like to contribute one, first find a legitimate published copy of it on the internet, then copy and shorten the url (using www.bit.ly or similar) then tweet the link on a Tuesday and add #PoetryTuesday to the tweet.

Here are the poems submitted during the first month ...

I have been exploring multiple dimensions of Twitter and LinkedIn.  I am following news relevant to my industry.  I am in closer touch with some of my clients.  I have made contact with professionals in my business area from different parts of the world.  It’s been fascinating to hear news directly from students in Iran.  I see that my daughter tweets early in the morning so we can enjoy short exchanges as we both prepare for the day.

My objective is to explore how social networking can be applied to driving real business improvements.  Forget marketing for the moment (the media is swamped with advice about this).  My clients and I share management challenges in running our respective businesses.  We want to know whether we can use the new tools to: