Wait! What? Brian Mann tweeting? How amazingly cool is that?
Here’s what Brian Mann looks like on twitter! Okay, I’m really standing on the summit of Katahdin in Maine, but you get the idea….
Okay, not so amazing or cool. Only about three thousand years (digital years, that is, which are like dog years only really really really fast) behind the times.
But if you are a member of the twitterverse and feel that your life would be improved significantly by receiving my tweets through the day, please add me to your list: @brianmannadk is my tag.
I’ll be tweeting Adirondack Park news mostly, a lot of politics, and other info of general interest to folks in the North Country. If you read the In Box regularly, give it a try.
Also, you should definitely be following NCPR’s twitter feed, @ncpr. By not receiving these tweets, you’ve already missed heads-up information about pollution in Schroon Lake, plane crashes in the Park, Governor Cuomo’s elimination of more than a dozen North Country agencies and authorities…
See? A gold mine! (Did I mention it’s free?)
Tweeting is so unimportant.
The joke about Twitter and Facebook is that if you are an actual human being who has a life to live, you really don’t “follow” anyone even if you do.
What I mean is – who has time to sit around and watch what is being tweeted?
Well I think it’s great.
Sorry Brain since one of your tweets is about losing your wallet, glasses, and cell phone I cannot follow you!
I’m a skeptic, too, Pete. But I’ve taken up the twitter mantle as well (@yomum) because none of us in the information business has the luxury anymore of selecting a single medium in/on which to operate. If the job at NCPR is to provide the public with access to news, information, and cultural material–as well as all the public to feed back into that stream–we do need to be on the most robust platforms.
Ten years ago, people wondered why we were investing in a website.
Oops, that should be “allow the public to feed back into that stream…”
Way to reinforce the public’s need to get information in bumper sticker portions. How I long for the news programs of the 60’s and 70’s.
“If the job at NCPR is to provide the public with access to news, information, and cultural material–as well as all the public to feed back into that stream–we do need to be on the most robust platforms. ”
Ellen, I agree, but we don’t need access to trivial facts about a person daily routine and there is way too much of that on Twitter.
With that said some organizations are using it to convey some important messages as well. But there is still too much sorting to make it very useful at this point.
Life has become sound bites of information and it has its ups and downs.
I even get frustrated with some of the news channels that have 2 minute interview spots and have to cut someone off. I’m with you PNElba! They even spoke slower back then.
My brain cannot process so much info so quickly. No wonder we’re stressed!
But, I do understand in the business world that you gotta join ’em if you want to be successful.
A two minute interview is a long one these days.
Sure Twitter, like Facebook has its share of banal too personal updates but its real power, as Ellen touched on is acting as a huge RSS feed. I follow a lot of outdoor bloggers/tweeters and ADK tweeter/bloggers and am kept up to date on everything through Twitter. Of course, I go to various websites, and still read books, magazines, TV, etc. but Twitter is a great aggregator of information. Of course, Brian, I am now following you!
Ellen, I appreciate what you’re saying about an obligation keep NCPR relevant. I have to wonder, though, does this really work?
Case in point: I note you follow 223 others on Twitter. If they all tweet just once a day…in addition to email and texts and good old fashioned phone calls… doesn’t it all become overwhelming? Not to mention a constant source of interruption?
Of course most can be ignored. But don’t the timely/important messages risk getting lost in haystacks that big?
Or do you just become super good at sifting?
Clearly I remain a skeptic, but maybe I need to open my mind wider.
Anyone?
Ellen, I do tweet and I am on Facebook. If you friend me, I’ll friend you. If you follow me, I’ll follow you.
But I do not sit at my computer and watch what is being tweeted. That’s my point and I think it is true for most.
Lucy, I have heard people’s phones going off every time there is a notification. That would drive me crazy! So I think you can have those notifications turned off and perhaps sift through them twice a day.
I think in business, real time communication is essential – depending on what your business is.
Well, we are becoming a nation of twits…
Has anyone ever read the story “The Marching Morons”? Would you buy it for a quarter?