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Joyce Bernsteinsays
of course I am master of the 140 character haiku. If only I could master Twitter!
Mark Kohutsays
Twitter is….differently revolutionary.
1) for “breaking news”…follow right orgs and
one learns (from tiny urls) what one needs.
2) for inside news
3) for ‘notes’ from friends.
Twitter and facebook are pulling readers to our website. When we engage partner organizations in our work, they push more people our way and we’ve had some of our biggest days on the site when we’re using social media.
Tumblr is amazing for sharing the art. Immediate posting of the art you click.
But we have a lot to learn about how to use these resources and that’s very time consuming – but it must be done.
The rapid introduction of new social sites and the rapid growth that follows for some of them reminds me of the club scene – people dashing to the latest and “hottest” club. Some of the older sites will soon be shrinking and losing their luster, the problem is decided which ones have staying power.
Or perhaps the migration will be never ending, and those who use these applications are doomed to wander forever….
I finally gave in to the Twitter mania, and although I’ve lost a little more “free time”, I have started to strongly understand the importance and draw that is Twitter.
It all depends on what you want to get out of using Twitter. If you are like me and you want to connect to those in your industry and thus stay current on trends, then Twitter is a great place. If you just want to fluff your ego and see how many people you can get to follow you, then its great for that too.
Bottom line: it is what you make of it. It can be a prove as a useful tool, or a pointless waste of time.
Although I’m still not feeling the Twitter love, I do appreciate the witty and/or useful and/or thought-provoking tweets of others… and I think you could definitely hang in a 140-character world.
I think artists naturally feel compelled to share immediately with the world anything they find inspiring – be it something they see on the street, a piece of music they come across by chance, or even the weather in their neighborhood (good or bad). And twitter seems to be a good medium for this kind of giving in the most altruistic sense of the word.
However, the virutal “community” experience will never replace that of cooking a friend a meal, rehearsing a piece of music with a group of friends, or jumping into a mosh pit.
Perhaps twittering opens up a hole that only artists can fill?
I say do not tweet. Twitter is nothing more than a cyber herd movement with a lesser purpose than facebook or multiply.
A site that is built around one question, “What are you doing?” is potentially one of the most clever creations, but it seems to be geared towards people without important things to do except update the world on their whereabouts.
While cyber technology continues to advance, it’s consequently robbing humanity of the human relations.
Caroline – Engineeringdaily.net
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of course I am master of the 140 character haiku. If only I could master Twitter!
Twitter is….differently revolutionary.
1) for “breaking news”…follow right orgs and
one learns (from tiny urls) what one needs.
2) for inside news
3) for ‘notes’ from friends.
Twitter and facebook are pulling readers to our website. When we engage partner organizations in our work, they push more people our way and we’ve had some of our biggest days on the site when we’re using social media.
Tumblr is amazing for sharing the art. Immediate posting of the art you click.
But we have a lot to learn about how to use these resources and that’s very time consuming – but it must be done.
The rapid introduction of new social sites and the rapid growth that follows for some of them reminds me of the club scene – people dashing to the latest and “hottest” club. Some of the older sites will soon be shrinking and losing their luster, the problem is decided which ones have staying power.
Or perhaps the migration will be never ending, and those who use these applications are doomed to wander forever….
I finally gave in to the Twitter mania, and although I’ve lost a little more “free time”, I have started to strongly understand the importance and draw that is Twitter.
It all depends on what you want to get out of using Twitter. If you are like me and you want to connect to those in your industry and thus stay current on trends, then Twitter is a great place. If you just want to fluff your ego and see how many people you can get to follow you, then its great for that too.
Bottom line: it is what you make of it. It can be a prove as a useful tool, or a pointless waste of time.
Yes – if you have useful and timely information to disseminate. I’ll follow 🙂
Although I’m still not feeling the Twitter love, I do appreciate the witty and/or useful and/or thought-provoking tweets of others… and I think you could definitely hang in a 140-character world.
I think artists naturally feel compelled to share immediately with the world anything they find inspiring – be it something they see on the street, a piece of music they come across by chance, or even the weather in their neighborhood (good or bad). And twitter seems to be a good medium for this kind of giving in the most altruistic sense of the word.
However, the virutal “community” experience will never replace that of cooking a friend a meal, rehearsing a piece of music with a group of friends, or jumping into a mosh pit.
Perhaps twittering opens up a hole that only artists can fill?
I say do not tweet. Twitter is nothing more than a cyber herd movement with a lesser purpose than facebook or multiply.
A site that is built around one question, “What are you doing?” is potentially one of the most clever creations, but it seems to be geared towards people without important things to do except update the world on their whereabouts.
While cyber technology continues to advance, it’s consequently robbing humanity of the human relations.
Caroline – Engineeringdaily.net