social networking and twitter

[Melllissa Norman]

hi everyone

thanks for all your comments on Twitter. Really useful. I am about to 
start raising funds for a new Onemedia event, this time in bonny 
Scotland and our partners are quite technical and want to do something 
really innovative with their technology.

We used Twitter at the first Onemedia event to allow people to send 
headlines from their group sessions to the tv screens around the 
building, that way you could keep up to date with what was happening in 
a group. It worked okay but because it was very new to 80 %of the 
participants it did not feel so natural but now, I think, that a lot of 
people have it set up on their phones it might be quicker and easier.

I also went to an event last June and when the speakers were on stage, 
there was a projector projecting a twitter stream about the talk using 
comments from the audience. I was not sure it would work but it added 
another dimension to the talk, The speakers could answer a question that 
appeared. If someone did not understand a phrase then someone else would 
let them know what it meant.

Hope you all are well. Good wishes from London

Mel
Media-sauce
www.media-sauce.org
www.one-media.org

Heidi Nobantu Saul wrote:
> Viv, John, Chris and others who have shared,
>
> Many Thanks! - I appreciate the sharing about what connecting in this/these
> on line ways does for you personally and what it can mean collectively. You
> all are more clear and persuasive than Scott Simon was while exploring it
> recently on an NPR Saturday morning or a Charlie Rose conversation with Evan
> Williams the co-founder of Twitter. They should hire y'all to
> market/advertise their product. 
>
> I have had a twitter account for several months now, set up for me by
> colleague Kaliya. I have yet to 'tweet' and do not look at my account with
> any regularity.  I am ready to dive into the stream now - or at least sit
> next to the edge.
>
> Heidi
>
> Heidi Nobantu Saul
> heidi at nobantu.com
> Twitter: www.twitter.com/nobantu 
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Viv
> McWaters
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 1:45 PM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: social networking and twitter
>
> HI Raffi and others
>
> I've been using Twitter for a couple of years now
> (www.twitter.com/vivmcw) and before using it I could see no real
> purpose. Now that I 'follow' the tweets (updates) of 100+ people (some
> of whom I know - Hi Chris - and many that I don't) I can see real
> benefits.
>
> 1. I work at home, mostly alone. Tweets are like the background hum
> you would hear in an office. Most of it you ignore. Occasionally
> there's something that interests me so I follow up
>
> 2. People post lots of links to articles, blogs etc that I would never
> find otherwise.
>
> 3. It helps me feel closer and connected to the people I actually know who
> tweet
>
> 4. I can ask a question (especially a tech question) and nearly always
> get an immediate response
>
> 5. Southern Australia is a long way from the rest of the world. Mostly
> that's good. Twitter is an easy way for me to stay up-to-date with
> global news (and, yes, I also read newspapers and am finding that they
> are usually about 24 hours behind, but they do provide a lot more than
> 140 characters!)
>
> 6. Tweeting helps with my writing. The limit of 140 characters means I
> have to choose my words carefully and can't rabbit on (like in this
> email ;-)
>
> 7. I get to 'know' some new people through their tweets and learn of
> some really cool ways of doing things (eg a woman here in Melbourne is
> raising money for a micro-finance  scheme for women in the
> Philippines, a company gave $100 per blog post about the project as
> part of the fund raising effort. I learnt about this via her tweets)
>
> And what annoys me about twitter?
>
> 1. It can be boring sometimes.
>
> 2. I get sick of so many tech people tweeting in shorthand tech
> language that I don't understand - that's probably more of a
> reflection of the main users of twitter and the people I follow - I
> would LOVE to have a whole heap of OST people to follow.
>
> Cheers
>
> Viv
>
>
>
>   

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