Thanks to Candice for pointing out James Tower’s E-Expectation Series – a series of reports on “e-expectations” of students (high school and college) and their implications for recruitment. I haven’t read any yet, but hope to soon — if you have, please post …
See this post by Beth Kanter (nptech maven) for an example of using VoiceThreads talking about Facebook. Is this something we could use as a supplement to wiki.bbvx.org???
From Jeanne on the CA Online e-mail list:
Just learned about this new social networking site where you can list books you’ve read or are reading, rate and review them, and share with friends. Lots of fun.
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), but a couple of us did post from a cell phone or blackberry to the web from the Convention Center.
One characteristic of the twitter.com postings is that they are “transient” — that page is probably empty now.
We also had a technical glitch on Sunday/Monday that meant the “real-time” tweets from the convention floor (on the bylaws changes and the public policy debate) were lost in cyber-space somewhere. But it was a start.
Perhaps with the leadership meetings tentatively planned for next summer we’ll be able to exchange information among the different venues — and allow the folks “back home” to get the flavor of the event even if their schedules prevent them from attending.
Here are a few examples of what you would have seen if you’d gone to that “tweets” page or to the twitter.com/aauw07/with_friends page during the convention.
Examples:
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 like “look for the video of the plenary session — it was great” or “the bylaws change #1 passed” or …
Twitter can accept messages from the web or, here’s the key part, from cell phone text messages. If we can find a group of “twitterers” we can let folks know how to sign up for the “tweets” — or they can be posted (through an RSS feed) on various AAUW sites around the country.
Cell phones can be set up to send e-mail, but getting the blog software to read that e-mail (and, say, separate out the sender and the subject from the body and the pictures) is more complicated than posting a one-line message. We may get to that point, too — but at the rate my thumbs are learning text messages it’s not going to be for this Convention. Other more accomplished users of their cell phones are welcome to holler at me.
Stay tuned.