Maybe you have noticed the twitter widget on the lower right of the front page of the community. This isn't a feed that comes from OSIsoft, although we do have some twitter usernames that send tweets regularly, like @OSIsoft_News (marketing), @OSIsoftPSS (Partner solutions), @OSIsoftUC (users conference), and @OSIsoftSupport (technical support).
Instead, it is a simple search result of all tweets that contain the word "OSIsoft." And that is why you will see things there that may be off topic. This is admittedly a scattershot approach to getting value from Twitter, but it works so often that there are more reasons to do it than not to do it. If you go through the list you will find many things you are not interested in, such as recruiters looking for PI System Managers, or people who happen to be visiting us today (like the job candidate who tweeted "Interviewing at OSIsoft today!" not knowing that it would appear on our front page).
But occasionally you will find things that you otherwise might miss. For example last week you would have found prolific blogger Oliver Yu's poston how your PI System can be used for more than just compliance. And in a tweet from @Agrion I learned about this streaming panel discussion on Harnessing Data for Sustainability Management and Driving Successful Programs that features OSIsoft's Kristen Kelly as one of the panelists.
So here are some typical tweets that appear there today:
The first one is from @cpapenfuss, who is OSIsoft employee Christoph Papenfuss. The #FF stands for "Follow Friday" and is a tradition on twitter to send a tweet with the handles of people you suggest others "follow" (i.e. subscribe). So if you like the work Christoph has done in his Performance Ideas blog (which you should check out if you are interested in data visualization writings of Stephen Few or Edward Tufte), then you may want to follow on Twitter the folks he recommends in his #FF tweet.
The second one is a job posting. We don't endorse them of course, and we don't ban them.
The third is a tweet from Lonnie Bowling ("Lonnie" in this user community), who is sending an update about a series of screencasts he is considering doing about PI System programming. If you click on @LonnieBowling and go to his full profile--no Twitter account required to do that--then you'll see earlier tweets that describe this series and has a link to an OSIsoft vCampus blog post that describes the series.
So please consider looking through the tweets daily. If a lot of your job involves working with the PI System I think on a regular basis you will be able to find gems of useful information there.