Boolean Contest - Step 1 - Twitter Challenge

[Irina Shamaeva]

1) Find a Twitter ID of someone who is a consultant with an MBA but doesn't have the words "consultant" or "MBA" in his/her bio (explain)
2) Find a Twitter ID of someone who is in business development but doesn't have the words "business development" in his/her bio (explain)
3) Find a Twitter ID of someone who is in Computer Software but doesn't have the word "software" (or any related words) in his/her bio (explain)

[Irina Shamaeva]

Here is a hint: there's no need to search on twitter or X-ray twitter to solve this.

[Adam Wiedmer]

#1
http://twitter.com/rngwu
• Name Robert Ngwu
• Location Minnesota
• Web http://www.megaso...
• Bio Ngwu attended Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth, University of Phoenix, University of Minnesota, and Institute of Management and Technology

This was the hardest one. For this one I worked backwards. I decided to do some market research on schools that only offer MBA degrees. That way, if the candidate was an alum and mentioned a college that they attended, then I should be able to assume that they have an MBA even if they don’t mention the degree I can still determine the degree.
I ran a search on www.tweepsearch.com and used the following string:

"tuck school" -mba -consultant

From there, I just did some research on Robert Ngwu’s background. I went to the Board of Directors page and found this:

Robert Ngwu MBA, FLMI, ACS, EMHI
President/CEO

Then, I checked out the About Us section of the website to find that he is a CEO of a company that offers “Consulting/Business Development” as one of their services.

#2
http://twitter.com/DMVoth
• Name David Voth

For this one I wanted to get rid of some of the generic sales titles and instead use ACTIONS that a typical business development might Tweet about throughout the day like “Just closed a deal”. I ran the following searches to X-ray Twitter on Google.

site:twitter.com "closed a deal" -sales -"business development" -selling -"account manager"
site:twitter.com "signed client" -sales -"business development" -selling -"account manager"

To make sure he was in sales, I decided to cross reference LinkedIn, since he Twitter’s constantly about Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears I am pretty sure he is this David Roth in Chicago: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-voth/14/a9/592


#3
http://twitter.com/bleongcw
• Name Bernard Leong
• Location Singapore
• Web http://www.bernar...
• Bio: A Pragmatic Idealist

Again I wanted to think of a list of activities that Computer techs might tweet about other than developing, code, applications, technologies, etc. So I thought the best strategy would be to find any employee coming out of a technology company like Microsoft, or to find anyone that might be tweeting about attending a conference at a technology company. It could be a salesperson but odds are that someone tweeting about a Microsoft conference is a developer/engineer. This is one of the X-ray strings that I used:

site:twitter.com "attending conference" Microsoft

And it gave me the following tweet in the first hit: “A lot of twitterers are around but GTUG talks are a bit like if we r attending a conference in Microsoft. :” Not only is he tweeting about Microsoft, but GTUG is Google Technology User Group.

So...not sure if this was the best way to go about this....you're hint would have made this much easier, Irina. Wish I had that at the start! Now off to answer a question.

[Irina Shamaeva]

Great job!

Adam wins the contest.

Here's what I imagined someone could do. Instead of any searches on twitter, find profiles or resumes that have all the right keywords and a Tiwtter Id as well. As an example, on Google search for

site:www.linkedin.com inurl:in OR inurl:pub "webistes * twitter" [keywords]
or even simply
site:www.linkedin.com inurl:in OR inurl:pub twitter [keywords]
(substitute [keywords] by the requirements in each task),
then check the twitter bio. In the cases I have looked it the twitter bio was either empty or didn't have any "professional" words in it.

Hope you enjoyed it an congratulations to Adam! You have won an invitation to Jim's webinar.

[Adam Wiedmer]

Awesome! Thanks! And I considered just doing that search on LinkedIn too but thought it would be cheating to use the keywords, would have been easier! Good idea though if you would rather start the dialogue on Twitter rather than some other form. Looking forward to the webinar for sure!

Irina Shamaeva said:

Great job!

Adam wins the contest.

Here's what I imagined someone could do. Instead of any searches on twitter, find profiles or resumes that have all the right keywords and a Tiwtter Id as well. As an example, on Google search for

site:www.linkedin.com inurl:in OR inurl:pub "webistes * twitter" [keywords]
or even simply
site:www.linkedin.com inurl:in OR inurl:pub twitter [keywords]
(substitute [keywords] by the requirements in each task),
then check the twitter bio. In the cases I have looked it the twitter bio was either empty or didn't have any "professional" words in it.

Hope you enjoyed it an congratulations to Adam! You have won an invitation to Jim's webinar.

[Ryan Leary]

You are stud....I knew it was a good thing to include you in the carnival! Thanks for the tips.

Adam Wiedmer said:

#1
http://twitter.com/rngwu
• Name Robert Ngwu
• Location Minnesota
• Web http://www.megaso...
• Bio Ngwu attended Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth, University of Phoenix, University of Minnesota, and Institute of Management and Technology

This was the hardest one. For this one I worked backwards. I decided to do some market research on schools that only offer MBA degrees. That way, if the candidate was an alum and mentioned a college that they attended, then I should be able to assume that they have an MBA even if they don’t mention the degree I can still determine the degree.
I ran a search on www.tweepsearch.com and used the following string:

"tuck school" -mba -consultant

From there, I just did some research on Robert Ngwu’s background. I went to the Board of Directors page and found this:

Robert Ngwu MBA, FLMI, ACS, EMHI
President/CEO

Then, I checked out the About Us section of the website to find that he is a CEO of a company that offers “Consulting/Business Development” as one of their services.

#2
http://twitter.com/DMVoth
• Name David Voth

For this one I wanted to get rid of some of the generic sales titles and instead use ACTIONS that a typical business development might Tweet about throughout the day like “Just closed a deal”. I ran the following searches to X-ray Twitter on Google.

site:twitter.com "closed a deal" -sales -"business development" -selling -"account manager"
site:twitter.com "signed client" -sales -"business development" -selling -"account manager"

To make sure he was in sales, I decided to cross reference LinkedIn, since he Twitter’s constantly about Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears I am pretty sure he is this David Roth in Chicago: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-voth/14/a9/592


#3
http://twitter.com/bleongcw
• Name Bernard Leong
• Location Singapore
• Web http://www.bernar...
• Bio: A Pragmatic Idealist

Again I wanted to think of a list of activities that Computer techs might tweet about other than developing, code, applications, technologies, etc. So I thought the best strategy would be to find any employee coming out of a technology company like Microsoft, or to find anyone that might be tweeting about attending a conference at a technology company. It could be a salesperson but odds are that someone tweeting about a Microsoft conference is a developer/engineer. This is one of the X-ray strings that I used:

site:twitter.com "attending conference" Microsoft

And it gave me the following tweet in the first hit: “A lot of twitterers are around but GTUG talks are a bit like if we r attending a conference in Microsoft. :” Not only is he tweeting about Microsoft, but GTUG is Google Technology User Group.

So...not sure if this was the best way to go about this....you're hint would have made this much easier, Irina. Wish I had that at the start! Now off to answer a question.