What’s the difference? Is it really all about long form vs short sound bites? Surely theres a place for both in the blogosphere. Matt Mullenweg’s wrote a great piece on the complimentary nature between “big” blogging platforms like WordPress and “micro” blogging platforms like Twitter. Matt is the founder of Automattic, the company that created WordPress. He is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

If you have seen my video on Leveraging Social Media to Build Lasting Customer Relationships or the Social Media presentation I posted on Slideshare.net, you know that we at dockmaster.com use WordPress as our primary website platform. We also use it on this blog. We use Twitter as a way to keep our customers and the community at large aware of what we are doing. As Matt states in his blog:

“New forms of social media, including micro-blogging, are complementary to blogging.”

He goes on to say, “One of the many uses of Twitter is to link to and promote your blog posts. (And other people’s blog posts.) As we grow, so do they, and vice versa”. I blog when I have something longer to say, like this. I tweet when it’s the lowest friction way to talk to my friends, or get distribution for something I wrote or made.

As an example, here are the places you can find DockMaster today:

www.dockmaster.com
www.facebook.com
www.linkedin.com
www.twitter.com/dockmasterinc