@Talend is Gaining #Traction on #Twitter

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This week, Talend held its first Tweet Jam. *No, we did not cook a pound of tweets with a pound of sugar and poured it in pots, but we certainly saw some steam on Twitter as many Tweeps out there contributed their ideas about open source data integration and data quality, using the hashtag #talendtj.* If you want to see all tweets from this Tweet Jam, follow this link (but hurry, as Twitter does not archive tweets for very long).

Among the esteemed Tweeps who contributed to this success, we were honored to count @hlsdk (Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen, the author of Liliendahl on Data Quality), @ocdqblog (Jim Harris, the author of the Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality Blog), as well as several people who had hands on experience either with Talend or other data management solutions (thanks @drmirror, @ssalvatierra, @dakoller, @FOSSwiki, @osbiblog and others for either participating or retweeting content).

Among the points we debated:

• Can you have data integration without data quality?
• Are free and open sources of reference data becoming more important in your projects?
• How has the evolution of data management changed the way you work on projects?
• Has the integration of data in the information system changed with open source?
• What are your reasons for choosing open source data integration?
• How do you use data integration in your company?

Very interesting too that Henrik wrote a post following the Tweet Jam, covering one these questions: Free and Open Sources of Reference Data. Thanks also to Christian for his post on OSBI-blog (in German): Erster Tweetjam von Talend.

On the Talend side, @stevesarsfield (Steve Sarsfield, our Product Marketing Manager for Data Quality and also a blogger and author himself), played a big role.* Steve is the author of the Data Governance and Data Quality Insider, and is well respected into the field.* I myself (@ydemontcheuil) answered a few questions and of course our marketing and social media crew helped a lot to coordinate the flow (thanks @pcoffre, @Cecile_Talend, @ccornavin!).

Back to Twitter as a social media and a communication vector – it has proven to be a fantastic channel for Talend.* With almost 1600 followers of @Talend, I believe we are one of the leaders in our space.* This is an efficient way to put the news out there – and this is fun too!* I have personally taken up Twitter, whereas my personal blog did not get updated very often, too time consuming.

Another example of the traction we have on Twitter: when we presented our strategy to the Boulder BI Brain Trust two weeks ago, most of these analysts are active Tweeps.* From what I was given to understand, this particular BBBT session beat the record for the Tweet volume – over 225!* By the way, the podcast I recorded with Claudia Imhoff at the BBBT is available here.

If you are not following @Talend on Twitter, now is the time!

@ydemontcheuil




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