Here is a great article on the topic http://www.geekpreneur.com/twitter-vs-rss-feed-reader-the-smackdown http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/14/twitter-analytics-business-technology-ebiz_0215_twitter.html Randy S. Little http://reel.rslittle.com http://imdb.com/name/nm2325729/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/rslittle On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Gayle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There are lots of ways for people to find you on Twitter. I have a > number of links I can offer (they're at home). You can get people to find > you by putting the Twitter icon on your website and including it in things > you post. There's a new application that will connect your Twitter > and Facebook (Oh, Lord, not another application, LOL). It just went across > my screen in the last couple of days. I'll see if I can find it at home. > > I now look for the Twitter icon when I come across a museum's web site. I > want to follow you and see what you're doing. Some have it very obvious. > Some you have to dig. Some, it's just nonexistent, and disappointing. Now, > if I have a choice as to which museum I'm going to go to, which one do you > think I'm going to visit? They one that makes it easy for me to know what's > going on, or the one I have to dig? > > Twitter is a little bit like chat if you do it right. You're connecting > and having conversations with people who have an interest in you. If you're > noncommunicative, how quickly do you think they're going to stick around? > > On my long list of my amazing techno skills (LOL), I left off the fact I've > been feeding my brain daily with podcasts on my iPOD. I used think it was > simply spiffy if I had a TV-sound radio, or a phone that could get some > TV/radio. > > Since posting my earlier note, I got a chance to poke around the Time list > (one of my annual favorites. Twitter and a number of other fascinating > pieces of software made the list. > > http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1918031,00.html > > I'll dig out resources tonight or tomorrow and post. > > > > Looking for a Job in the Arts? > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuseJobs > Tweetcha Later! > https://twitter.com/Indigo_Nights > > [image: animated twitter button] > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Carol Ely <[log in to unmask]> > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Sent:* Monday, August 24, 2009 2:09:48 PM > *Subject:* Re: [MUSEUM-L] The Importance of Understanding/Using Social > Media to Promote Your Institution > > Thanks to Gayle/Indigo, I think I’m starting to get Twitter. I see what > it can do for us. We have an account but have not yet tweeted (but we > blog, we Facebook, we’re starting to Flickr). So, given that our traditional > audience is not yet on to this (I asked my Board at the last meeting, no one > is using Twitter and many had no idea what I was talking about), how do we > find new audiences or help them find us? Maybe through our Facebook fans > (still a small number)? How do those who twitter find us, if it’s all viral > and very few of our existing supporters use this? I guess the answer is to > start putting it out there and see what happens, but is there a strategy > that might be more effective? Any of the more traditional organizations have > success with this – those who don’t have a young fan base at the start? > > > > Carol Ely > > Historic Locust Grove > > Louisville > ========================================================= Important > Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at > http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed > information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message > to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read > "help" (without the quotes). > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to > [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read > "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). > > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).