This awesome slideshow by Stephen Collins (@trib) is about language, resistance, communication, understanding. See what you think! Do you recognize yourself or your reluctant association? Food for thought and an interesting way to think about Twitter.
I also wanted to do a round up of posts on how associations can use Twitter. Seeing as there are two recent and awesome posts:
Ben's Ten rules for associations using Twitter
Lindy's Twitter tips for Associations
And here's a reminder link to my post on 9 ways to find people to follow on Twitter, and my original Twitter primer, both of which I have had to dig around this blog archive to find and link to a few times so here they are all together.
Of course my advice back then was to follow me, and see who I follow - but at the time I probably followed 40 people, as opposed to maybe 650 now, so that advice is no longer very practical!
What I would say, though, is that if you are not already on it, it's worth signing up to Twitter now, following all of the above advice, but without sweating it too much. Just like any new language or culture you immerse yourself in, it takes time to absorb and it takes time to become comfortable with it. So start now, even if you don't think your association can really use it for a while - get on Twitter as an individual first, so you get used to the ebb and flow of it. And let me know you're on - I'll pass the word along and get you some followers! : )
P.S. Also, you may have heard of two new microblogging sites - Plurk and the open source Identi.ca - I may post about those later, but suffice to say that I signed up to both and have found them both annoying and nowhere near as comfortable to use as Twitter, even despite the downtime issues Twitter has had, which honestly have not bothered me that much. That may change - the social media world is fickle and so am I! But for now, I say don't bother with those. It's hard enough immersing yourself in one new culture without trying to do two or three at once.
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