Twitter, Data Governance, and a #ButteredCat #FollowFriday

I have previously blogged in defense of Twitter, the pithy platform for social networking that I use perhaps a bit too frequently, and about which many people argue is incompatible with meaningful communication (Twitter that is, not me—hopefully).

Whether it is a regularly scheduled meeting of the minds, like the Data Knights Tweet Jam, or simply a spontaneous supply of trenchant thoughts, Twitter quite often facilitates discussions that deliver practical knowledge or thought-provoking theories.

However, occasionally the discussions center around more curious concepts, such as a paradox involving a buttered cat, which thankfully Steve Sarsfield, Mark Horseman, and Daragh O Brien can help me attempt to explain (remember I said attempt):

So, basically . . . successful data governance is all about Buttered Cats, Breaded CxOs, and Beer-Battered Data Quality Managers working together to deliver Bettered Data to the organization . . . yeah, that all sounded perfectly understandable to me.

But just in case you don’t have your secret decoder ring, let’s decipher the message (remember: “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”):

• Buttered Cats – metaphor for combining the top-down and bottom-up approaches to data governance
• Breaded CxOs – metaphor for executive sponsors, especially ones providing bread (i.e., funding, not lunch—maybe both)
• Beer-Battered Data Quality Managers – metaphor (and possibly also a recipe) for data stewardship
• Bettered Data – metaphor for the corporate asset thingy that data governance helps you manage

(For more slightly less cryptic information, check out my previous post/poll: Data Governance and the Buttered Cat Paradox)

#FollowFriday Recommendations

Today is #FollowFriday, the day when Twitter users recommend other users you should follow, so here are some great tweeps for mostly non-buttered-cat tweets about Data Quality, Data Governance, Master Data Management, and Business Intelligence:

(Please Note: This is by no means a comprehensive list, is listed in no particular order whatsoever, and no offense is intended to any of my tweeps not listed below.  I hope that everyone has a great #FollowFriday and an even greater weekend.)

Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen – @hlsdk Dylan Jones – @DataQualityPro Phil Simon – @PhilSimon Julian Schwarzenbach – @jschwa1 Rich Murnane – @murnane Rob Paller – @RobPaller Stephen Putman – @SJPutman Augusto Albeghi – @Stray__Cat Garnie Bolling – @GarnieBolling Mark Horseman – @MarkHorseman William Sharp – @dqchronicle Ken O’Connor – @KenOConnorData Graham Rhind – @GrahamRhind Jill Wanless – @sheezaredhead Jacqueline Roberts – @JackieMRoberts Terri Rylander – @BIMarcom Loraine Lawson – @LoraineLawson Sarah Burnett – @SarahBurnett Corinna Martinez – @Futureratti Beth Breidenbach – @bbreidenbach Julie Hunt – @juliebhunt Nicole Carriere – @carrni Teresa Cottam – @Teresacottam Loretta Mahon Smith – @silverdata April Reeve – @Datagrrl Karen Lopez – @datachick Rob Drysdale – @projmgr Ted Louie – @TedLouie Nick Giuliano – @Nick_Giuliano John Owens – @JohnIMM Dalton Cervo – @dcervo Phil Wright – @faropress Jaime Fitzgerald – @jaimefitzgerald Simon Daniels – @mktginsightguy Marcus Borba – @marcusborba Alexej Freund – @alexej_freund Vish Agashe – @VishAgashe Chris Sorensen – @wjdataguy Mark Lorion – @mark_lorion Brett Stupakevich – @Brett2point0 Steve Dine – @steve_dine David Pratt – @DataMgmtWonk

IAIDQ – @IAIDQ Daragh O Brien – @daraghobrien Jill Dyché – @JillDyche David Loshin – @DavidLoshin Neil Raden – @NeilRaden James Taylor – @jamet123 Shawn Rogers – @shawnrog Wayne Eckerson – @weckerson Peter Thomas – @PeterJThomas Timo Elliott – @TimoElliott Dan Power – @dan_power William McKnight – @williammcknight Gartner Research – @Gartner_inc Ted Friedman – @ted_friedman Andy Bitterer – @bitterer ANALYSTerical – @ANALYSTerical Merv Adrian – @merv Forrester Research – @forrester Robert Karel – @rbkarel Initiate, an IBM Company – @IBMInitiate Jarrett Goldfedder – @JGoldfed DataFlux, a SAS Company – @DataFlux Data Roundtable – @DataRoundtable Kalido – @Kalido Winston Chen – @WinstonChen John Evans – @jmevans00 Lorita Ba Vannah – @lorita Informatica – @InformaticaCorp Clarke Patterson – @ClarkePatterson Talend – @Talend Steve Sarsfield – @SteveSarsfield Trillium Software – @TrilliumSW Pervasive Software – @DataIntegrate Paige Roberts – @RobertsPaige Experian QAS – @Experian_QAS Datamartist – @Datamartist Utopia, Inc. – @UtopiaInc Melissa Data – @MelissaData Ira Warren Whiteside – @irawhiteside DataMentors – @DataMentors Information Management – @InfoMgmt Enterprise CIO Forum – @ECIOForum

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