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Media140 feed

November 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · twitter

Tweet Have been chatting online with Evan from Sency.com and decided to experiment with his new gadget using the Media140 Twitter feed: #media140 Tweet

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more real people on twitter #followfriday

October 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · twitter

Tweet Here’s some more real people that I follow on Twitter: @jeffsonstein – teaches IT, supports causes, knows his geekery & I often enjoy interesting chats with him on Twitter @neerav – blogger, geek, librarian, chocolate lover who’s always got an interesting perspective on things @mkrigsman – writes about IT project failures, knows lots of [...]

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some real people on twitter for #followfriday

October 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · twitter

Tweet Here’s some more real people that I follow on Twitter: @firstdogonmoon – Mr Onthemoon cartoons at www.crikey.com.au & is one of the kindest people I know; IMHO he’s also a comic genius @Mediamum – start-up entrepreneur, mother of a small tribe, intrepid breastfeeding campaigner, journalist, educator – there is nothing this woman can’t do [...]

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real people for #followfriday

October 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · twitter

Tweet Here’s some more real people that I follow on Twitter: @salisburydowns & @susiecameron – I put these together as they’re partners in crime most of the time, if you’re interested in entertaining your kids or getting them active these tweeps are it @PeterBlackQUT – lectures in law at QUT, total current affairs & political [...]

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some real people for #followfriday

October 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · twitter

Tweet Here’s some more real people that I follow on Twitter: @servantofchaos – knows his digital marketing stuff and he’s passionate about real relationships (check out Friday Surry Hills social media coffee mornings) @maverickwoman – one of the most curious people I’ve ever met, her passion for new ideas keeps me up to date @fibendall [...]

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Twitter, purpose and community

August 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · community, social computing, twitter

Tweet A while back Twitter was having some real problems with stability and scalability and it dawned on me that they, like many innovators,  had not realised what kind of invention they had made.  They talked about it as a ‘microblogging‘ platform, that is, as a very short message publishing service.  This is a very [...]

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Twitter and talking at once

August 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · ideas, twitter

Tweet The other night I caught up with some friends who (except for @dbendall) also happen to use Twitter (@fibendall, @iggypintado, @kerrypintado) at a local pub for some grub, a drink, lively conversation & exchange of ideas. Now this is a smart and entertaining bunch of people. But some of the characteristics of our real [...]

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Project TOTO farewell gathering

June 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · ideas, social computing, twitter

Tweet For those who continue to think that Twitter is all about pimple faced geeks sitting alone in the dark at home tapping away on their computers here’s another real life event that shows differently. Last Saturday a bunch of us gathered to farewell our friend Stilgherrian as he takes off on a trip for [...]

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Evolving Twitter strategies.

June 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · twitter

Tweet A long time ago I confessed to @SilkCharm that I did not get Twitter and was about to abandon it. But at her urging I persisted with the darn thing. Then quite quickly there were a whole bunch of people following me, and it became necessary to develop a set of rules for who [...]

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Twitter friends

March 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · twitter

Tweet Once people have used Twitter for a while they often ask: How can a very large number of people be your friends? The truth is they can’t all be your intimate friends but that there are degrees of friendship just as exist in real life.  And on Twitter the term “friends” is often applied [...]

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