More and more, I find myself checking Twitter when I’m waiting at traffic lights, in line at the grocery store or killing time when a meeting begins five minutes late. I realized that though Google Reader is technically just as accessible via my PDA, checking it while on-the-go is not my user habit. It feels cumbersome and too […]
Will Twitter Kill the Holiday Card?
I spent way too much time this weekend gathering snail mail addresses for the 250 (!) family photo holiday cards that we ordered and obligated ourselves to send. As I e-mailed address requests to a few friends and contacts for whom I didn’t have up-to-date info, I wondered why the heck we were doing this in […]
What’s all the fuss about Twitter?
A great report just came out this morning (from Pistachio Consulting) detailing the microsharing landscape and effective ways microsharing is being used by organizations. It’s definitely worth a look. I follow @Pistachio on Twitter and she (Laura Fitton) is smart, witty, humorous and has excellent insights about social media. The report provides an overview of 19 microsharing applications […]
Inability to comment on comments stifles the conversation
I just finished reading Keith Burtis’ great guest post on Chris Brogan’s blog, “Twitter- To Converse or to Broadcast-THAT is the Question.” As I scrolled and skimmed through the comments to get down to the bottom and add my own comment, it dawned on me how strange it is that the participatory medium of blogs that […]
Twitter challenges for government agencies
Today I read and commented on Silicon Valley Insider’s post “The US Government Catches The Twitter Bug, And Amazingly, Does It Well” by Eric Krangel. In the post Eric asserts that “some of the best and most innovative new media experiments going on right now on the Internet are coming from the U.S. federal government.” […]
