Where are your customers?
Posted on June 24, 2008
Filed Under: Work
Tagged: communication, twitter, vcu
Saw this on Twitter the other day. Thought I’d share.
VCU Tech Services knows where their customers are. Do you?
Presidential debate on Twitter?
Posted on June 20, 2008
Filed Under:
Tagged: debate, politics, twitter
This could get interesting. I wonder if the participants in Richmond’s mayoral race would be up for something like this. No wait...who am I kidding?
Time magazine blogger Ana Marie Cox is moderating a debate on technology and the government on Twitter.
Read the full article here: BREAKING: PdF2008 Hosts Obama-McCain Twitter Debate
The McCain campaign will be represented by Liz Mair, the online communications director of the Republican National Committee. The Obama campaign will be represented by Mike Nelson, a professor at Georgetown University who served in the Clinton White House under Vice President Gore on tech policy issues. He is an outside advisor to Obama’s campaign on issues of technology, media and telecommunications.
The debate is an initiative of Personal Democracy Forum and is being launched in tandem with next week’s annual PdF conference, which is taking place Monday and Tuesday at Rose Hall in NYC.
Mike, Liz and Ana will be using their personal Twitter accounts, @mikenelson, @lizmair and @anamariecox, and we’ve also asked them to tag their responses with the hashtag #pdfdebate. We suggest that readers who want to follow along use a Twitter application like Summize.com to track the conversation.
Lost art of the headline
Posted on June 19, 2008
Filed Under: Work
Tagged: headlines, media, newspaper, twitter
Writing headlines is an art but those skills don’t always translate to the web. I found the following on Google News tonight.
Be honest, which one are you going to click on?
Me? I’m clicking on the one that mentions Twitter.
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Obvious asks - Why do you use Twitter?
Posted on April 10, 2008
Filed Under: Personal, Richmond, Work
Tagged: connections, media, richmond, stowe boyd, twitter
Yesterday, I noticed that Twitter added a link for me to “share my story”. The team at obvious.com wanted to know who I was and why I use it.
I responded telling them that I was an Incognito Anthropologist interested in Twitter for four reasons:
1. Richmond has an incredibly smart, savvy, and downright friendly group of people when it comes to all things Internet. From our projects in citizen journalism to wi-fi initiatives to the general chatter on the blogs, we’re creating meaningful connections. Twitter serves to extend and enrich those connections.
2. Many local media outlets aren’t connecting with their audience in the way they used to - or rather, the local audience wants a different kind of connection. Adopting Twitter and using it to meet the needs of their audience (a crucial point that will be missed by many media companies) adds capital to the social connection that needs to exist between local media and the informed citizen. I’m interested in following media companies using Twitter to learn more about how they use the service.
3. My Twitter feed is much more entertaining than scanning the 5000+ new posts I get in Google Reader every day.
4. Twitter lets me directly connect, in 140 characters or less, with brilliant minds around the world and that’s a beautiful thing.
Stowe Boyd, eloquent as always, has his take on the survey here:
http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/04/my-twitter-stor.html
Scoble calls it
Posted on April 09, 2008
Filed Under: Work
Tagged: early adopters, robert scoble, twitter
It’s over. After today, you’re no longer an early adopter of Twitter. Scoble called it.
Anyone who joins Twitter after today is not an early adopter. So, not interesting for me to follow.
Tess, you just made it under the wire. Whew.