Posts tagged Social media
Excuse me, I’m having a #jellymoment
May 19th
Today was Jelly day once again at The Old Church School in Frome, and having discovered Jelly was happening at the same time in both Cardiff and Coalport, I racked my brains for a way of connecting us all.
It was A who came up with the brilliant idea of having a #jellymoment on Twitter like the #watercoolermoment Enterprise Nation run at 11 am every morning. We decided on 12 as the start time, and despite a few grumbling stomachs demanding lunch, got such a good response that we reached 3rd in UK trending, as you can see on the left. Not at all bad for a first attempt!
I’ll be back…w/c 19 April
Apr 7th
It’s unlikely I’ll be posting here until I’ve moved into my new home office, so apologies in advance for the disruption to normal home working service. In the meantime you might like to visit a few of my online friends to fill the gap:
San Sharma is the friendly host of #watercoolermoment every weekday at 11 am. Home workers meet on Twitter for an online coffee break to chew over home business issues of the highest importance, such as if you had a Tardis, where would you go?
Emily Cagle’s blog offers thoughtful, well-written posts on marketing and communications, as well as guest posts from other experts, including, ahem, me in the near future if I’m not mistaken.
David Wike has a dry sense of humour that makes me laugh out loud and his new blog The Watercooler (yes, not entirely unrelated to the above) is a collection of snippets of his (very) random thoughts. Give him a try and please tell him I sent you.
Well, that’s all I’ve got time for before A pulls the plug and packs up the computer, so bye for now and see you soo
Joining the Twitterverse
Sep 3rd
Work on the website has been on hold for the time being, as recently I attended a Twitter training course and I’ve been practising what I learnt. Our immensely knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher was Mark Shaw and thanks to him I have been able to dip a toe into the world of social media. There is absolutely no chance I would have done it on my own by just signing up for an account and trying to figure it out for myself.
I have to admit that when I first heard about Twitter, I wondered why on earth anyone would bother to write messages of 140 characters or less about what they were doing, and even more why anyone would be sad enough to read them. What I have discovered is that by being discerning about what you write and who you follow, you can pick up the very latest news on any topic and make contact with people who are experts in their field and are willing to share tips.
If you want to embark on Twitter or improve your skills, I highly recommend you follow Mark Shaw, who sends out regular tips and bulletins throughout the day. And of course you can follow me on http://twitter.com/judyheminsley
A glimpse of the future?
May 22nd
I must confess that until now the idea of Web 2.0 has left me cold. (If Web 2.0 is an alien concept to you, as it was to me, you might like to know that according to Wikipedia ‘Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities…such as social-networking sites, videosharing sites, wikis, blogs…’). Blogs I can see the point of – you choose to read the ones that mean something to you and comment if you feel you have something to add.
But my experiences just of book and film reviews on Amazon had led me to believe that the type of people with the time and inclination to share their opinions were precisely the type of people whose views I didn’t want to hear! My response to those choosing to answer the Twitter question ‘What are you doing?’ is ‘So what and who cares?’ Unless you’re a celebrity with a devoted following, does anybody really want to know?
But I’ve just seen an inspiring film at www.usnowfilm.com about the possibilities created by sites where people who were previously strangers share information. The examples I particularly liked were couchsurfing.com where travellers can find someone willing to put them up on the sofa for the night, and mumsnet.com where parents share the kind of information they apparently used to pick up from relatives and neighbours. Now that bankers and MPs have shown themselves to be greedy and not particularly clever, could this kind of openness of information enable a more truly democratic society?
This is the key question debated in the film, which lasts for an hour and is the most heartening message I’ve heard in a long time. (Although I’m no more enthusiastic about going on Facebook…)
