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Number one reason Twitter rocks: Totally blowing chain-of-command out of the water. A corporate overlord A McClatchy VP and I are Twitter buddies.
I haven’t officially met him. He visited the newspaper once last year, but there are so many rungs on the corporate ladder between us that I wasn’t introduced to him.
When adding a couple of McClatchyites to my twitter “following” list, I added him because as my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss, he’s relevant to me. And he seemed like the kind of executive who speaks in, um, actual words rather than execuspeak, so that’s worth watching.
He added me back. And he replies to things I tweet about.
And that makes me feel like in this big, giant, corporate, so-big-that-it-must-be-at-least-a-little-evil media company…I matter. (Sweet!) And that makes me a better employee.
(And after I tweeted “I’d kill for noise-canceling headphones” and received a Tiger Direct package from him a few days later, the rest of the newsroom is thinking about tweeting some death threats, too.)
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