Twitter’s Untapped Potential for Contract Management

This is the first in a new series, Social Media for Contracts.

Twitter’s potential for contracts is not achieved for the most part. Twitter is, at best, a noble tool used for sharing and learning. At worst, it is a distraction. Reach for those high goals with these ideas below.

Communicate with Your Team

Yes, email, IM, faxes, BBM, texts, etc. There are a million different ways to reach out to your team.

The beauty of Twitter is that it’s always-public nature lets anyone contribute to the conversation. Someone you didn’t know can add new facts and give you the solution you didn’t know existed. Added bonus: the 140-character restriction forces people to get to the point and not ramble like in emails and voicemails.

Monitor Current Issues

Don’t wait for the next Contract Management Magazine to come out. Just use hashtags to search for things like #contracts, #procurement, #acquisition, and #contr.

Announce and Stick to Your Goals

Previously covered in another post, publicly announcing your goals for the day can help keep you on track. Theoretically, it should help keep you on target because you’ve declared your expectations.

Publish Contract Updates

This has been proposed in the Better Buy Project, but it has yet to be implemented (as far as I know). This would be an interesting way for contractors to respond to new information.

Do you have an innovative use of Twitter for contracts? Suggest it here. People will find out. You’ll become famous. (At least with my readers).