Okay, here’s what feels like a Rube Goldberg method for members of a group to share info via twitter without following each other and without needing the web to read the tweets. Go to twitter.com/hashtags and click follow Post a message with an the agreed upon tag, preceded by the # symbol (called a “hash” [...]
The previous post talked about the tweets appearing in the sidebar, but sometime before Convention, I moved them to a separate page, change.bbvx.org/tweets/ that you can find in the horizontal menu at the top of the page. We didn’t do a good job of advertising this (ask me over a beer about the failed strategies), [...]
You may have noticed the new section at the bottom of the sidebar: Tweets. I’m experimenting with twitter.com as a backup plan for posting information from the AAUW Convention at the end of the month. The idea of Twitter is “micro-blogging” — the posts are limited to 140 characters, but that’s enough to say things [...]
Hmmm… I’ve just come across twitter.com. It’s one more tool/environment that you apparently need to try before you can figure it out. As far as I can tell, it’s kind of like micro-blogging (without a permanent record) — or broadcast IM. On the other hand, Keith Peters, in the Bit-101 blog describes it as office [...]
