social networking and twitter

Tue Mar 31 06:42:27 PDT 2009

Thanks all for this discussion of Twitter.  During my illness and recovery
I've begun to play with facebook and twitter.  Toronto is extremely linked
on facebook - I keep connection with some aspects of my kids lives and their
friends (e.g. as they change their relationship status or post new
pictures).   Lately, I've been connecting to family in Kansas.  Twitter has
been less engaging, partly because I've not known much about what it its or
could be.  Viv and Chris, in fact, prompted my initial attention and John
Engle and Douglas have been recent additions.  I'll try to add
#Openspacetech when appropriate in the future.  Do we do that only for OST
related entries?  

My Twitter address is now larryepeterson and I use my gmail e-mail.

Larry

Larry Peterson & Associates in Transformation

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: March-31-09 1:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [OSLIST] social networking and twitter

Yup...the tag counts, but Twwetdeck, the software I use to twitter has
several handy ways for shortening posts and links, so it's still usually
plenty of characters for a tweet.

c

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
wrote:

thanks, chris.  that helps.  if even a small group of tweeters start doing
this, it seems that it starts to establish or claim the tag for our use and
also create some content for pulling into the website.  i'm glad to do
what's needed to have that content show up, and it seems best to wait until
you tweeters tell me that there's a enough volume there to make it worth
doing.  

curious though, do the #openspacetech characters count in the 140 (or
whatever) limit per tweet?

m

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan at gmail.com>
wrote:

Michael:

So basically in twitter, the tagging convention is to add a hash mark in
front of a word.  So if you make a tweet talking about Barack Obama and you
tag it with #obama, it will show up in a query on that tag (here for
instance http://twitter.com/search?q=%23obama
<http://twitter.com/search?q=%23obama&source=navbar&category=search>
&source=navbar&category=search)  That query page also produces an RSS feed,
same as the other tags we use at flickr and around the blogosphere
(openspacetech).  Wordpress has plug ins that will publish twitter feeds on
a blog sidebar so if we ever wanted to show Open Space practitioner tweets
on the osw sidebar (tagged with #openspacetech for example) it shouldn't be
too hard.  

That's the theory anyway.  Question is really whether enough people are
using it or see utility in using it, and I guess that remains to be seen.
Perhaps those of us that do tweet OST related stuff could start using the
#openspacetech tag (#OST is already in use) and we could see what happens.
So I'll start tagging tweets that way.  Here's the first tweet on the new
query page: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=openspacetech

Chris

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
wrote:

maybe it's listserve randomness, or pilot error here... but i didn't see
anything about tweetfeed and osw?  and being a non-tweeter, i don't
understand even now that it's mentioned.  explain what it is and how it
would work, raffi?  and what is required to set it up?  thanks,m 

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:

Thanks all for this rich and passionate conversation!

To those who use tweet:

what do you find to be the benefits of using Twitter? What's different? How
has it enriched your life, your work?

I looked on your blog, Holger, a little. If you think there are any posts
that communicate the value and benefits of Twitter, perhaps you could share
them?

I've been on Facebook for a couple of months and, well, it's nice...

I like the way you framed the value of such applications michael (herman).

Thus far, I'd say, that my experience has been that for my tribe, OSlist has
been the most valuable tool. Indeed, I've  made some connections just from
the list that have flowered into full-blown real life friendships.

Also, like Chris's idea of adding an ost tweetfeed to OSW...

warmly,
raffi

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