So I finally realized that I can no longer pretend that Twitter and Facebook status updates are doing the same thing. Before I really got the twitter updates under my skin, I was no problem to have http:ping.fm update both twitter and facebook status at the same time. But as my post got more frequent, I became self aware about my facebook updates becoming the only thing that filled my profile effectively spamming myself and everyone i know. Thus the up till then dim distinction between status and micro blogging became clear to me.
Not everyone in your facebook friend list wants to hear what you are doing or any advice you have several times a day. So only major things goes the status update.
But I must say that i finally found a role for micro blogging. It has some clear uses. For people willing to hear that often from you, its quite fun to get the small details about their lives and thoughts. It doesn’t take much time to read or write, but still lets you get the feeling of being connected to your friends. That’s a big plus. More seriously, twitter and micro blogging lets you get small important, funny or urgent news from you work out to a listening audience. I have begun to work on the work flow of integrating twitter as a important part of the communication from my workplace, a NGO working with humanitarian help in Romania and other countries.
News about new donations, help needed, events held (or even prayer requests for the relevant segment) can reach people fast and let them feel connected to the work being done. The site will be up at http://ako-danmark.dk but is still in progress at http://sv-consult.dk/ako – go take a sneak peek.
I’m even working on a solution that will take the tweeds and make a digest mail that will be send to newsletter subscribers and a way of getting the tweeds scrolling over on site TV screens. Again a way of letting fast generated content connect to a broad segment of people related to the organisation. I’m really exited about it!



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