Do you Twitter? Meme

[Matt Herzberger]

I just read Seth Meranda's blog post and it got me to thinking that there are prob quite a few higher ed people that could follow each other on there.

So what is your twitter name?

http://twitter.com/mherzber

[Jay Collier]

Is anyone retweeting interesting posts by this austere group?

-Jay

[Todd]

Yikes, guess I never added myself to this (probably because I hate answering Matt's questions):

@tsand

[Genevieve Howard]

Mine @zipline

[Kyle James]

Genevieve,
You are ZIPLINE! I so didn't put the two together. That helps SO much knowing that.

[Paul Branham]

www.twitter.com/branhap

I'm not very active, as I mainly use Facebook, but if I had a bigger following, I'd probably start using it for Status more than FB.

Paul

[Kyle James]

Paul,
You should check out ping.fm. I wrote a post about it way back. It allows you to send status updates to twitter, facebook, etc. Should do exactly what you are talking about w/out any extra work.

[Rachel Reuben]

I totally don't recommend that. I have different social groups in the different social networks, and use each platform so differently. Facebook is more of my personal/social side, where Twitter is mostly professional stuff. Rarely would I want the same status in both places.

[Dylan Wilbanks]

I recommend it. There have been more than a few moments when I've needed to send messages across all my networks, so ping.fm is perfect for that. And I can selectively publish to certain networks while not publishing to others.

I don't think I'd use it as an every day broadcasting system, but it's a nice tool to have in the box.

[Jay Collier]

You've brought up an excellent point. The more your personal and professional lives are intertwined -- think, say, Howard Rheingold ;) -- the less the separation is necessary. When more separate, keeping channels distinct is important, whether through different tools, or through different accounts (such as Mac OS X with multiple users and different accounts for, say, personal and professional (new) Twitter accounts.)

I think the beauty of these simple systems is that they meet needs, whatever they are.

As long as I can select and aggregate, either by post or by stream, I'm happy.

[social networking web design]

yes we twitter..but learning quickly that competitors are following our every move and copying.
sandy

[BlueNorma]

Oh, and I've found this as well. In fact, our main competitor has copied everything I've done in the past six months or so. Quite exasperating.

[BlueNorma]

I started using it for our college a couple of months ago and find it handy for last-minute announcements and updates on events, etc. We are adding about half a dozen people a week and I've only lost two followers. It's more experimental than anything right now, though. I considered using it personally, but I just don't have a reason to yet.