My readers and followers know that I am a big proponent of social media for CFOs. Used right, CFOs can use social media to help brand themselves to the benefit of their careers and their employers. I have blogged about CFOs and LinkedIn previously, here, here, here and here.
I recently had a conversation with my friend Cindy Kraft on Proformative about CFOs and Twitter, specifically whether Twitter is helpful to Chief Financial Officers in their personal branding process.
Twitter is not intuitive for CFOs like LinkedIn is. It took me a while to become interested in it and get the hang of it. LinkedIn was a lot easier – I’ve been there for over 8 ½ years so far, and was one of the first 25,000 members back when I joined in 2003.
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Let’s face it – few CFOs are on Twitter. (You can check out and subscribe to my list of CFOs on Twitter – I add CFOs as I find them). If you are looking to stand out as a CFO, join Twitter and let people know about it. Then, slowly, begin to experiment. If you’d like my help, just add me on Twitter @DergelCFO.
Twitter. It’s good for you. And you might actually like it.