========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: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.I'll dig out resources tonight or tomorrow and post.
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From: Carol Ely <[log in to unmask]>
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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
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