Would you like to make the case for how your experience as a reader or for how the Political Parlor itself would benefit (or not) from any use of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or any other tool?
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Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and the Like Posted by Danny, on February 26th, 2009, at 9:58 am16 comments to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and the Like |
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All of them could help. Congressmen were Tweeting from the Chamber during Obama’s speech. Would it be a Politicalparlor Twitter or a personal one for you, as the proprietor of the site? If used a real-time update on the movement of the gears of Alabama politics, what lobbyist came out of the Governor’s office, where the Mississippi bagmen were meeting the governor’s aides, where Mike Hubbard was hiding all the illegal contracts with Auburn, etc…
Facebook is iffy and MySpace would be ridiculous, but both would need little to no maintenance as long as they linked back here and commenters on those sites fed into the discussion here.
Just my $.02
Twitter is a piece of cake from a technical perspective. No overhead on your part. Just setup Wordpress to send your posts to Twitter and it is automatic after that.
my space is for losers like chris brown and brad unruh, you would do much better on facebook, but twitter would certainly be a good idea, everytime you post something new, you could send it out. would certainly expand your readership to all those following you and then everyone following them.
Facebook members can put postings on their profile pages with one click and then it appears on the feed page for all the user’s friends. I have seen quite a few interesting posts that way, most recently a ridiculous NYU student protest that would have never been on my radar had a friend not posted it to his profile. College students with too much time on their hands:
http://gawker.com/5159003/the-painfully-ridiculous-end-to-the-nyu-revolution
facebook is far cleaner and more professional than myspace… the most useful of these social media would be twitter though.
Twitter has been referred to as mini-blogging, and i think it would enhance this already stellar blog if you posted the urls to your latest stories in your twitter updates.
But the strongest reason for you to integrate Doc’s with social media is that it might lead to more of our elected officials getting involved in social media as well. This would (ideally) bring us closer to a more responsive government.
I say definitely to twitter and facebook. Not so much with myspace.
Techie makes a great point: “it might lead to more of our elected officials getting involved in social media…”
It might make us into babies … I mean, those of us that are not already.
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Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/24/social-networking-site-changing-childrens-brains
Twitter updates would be great.
Yep, Facebook is the way to go. FB mobile allows you to comment and update your page from your cell phone. I use regularly – Not to mention the sheer social networking “potential” for using the site.
I’m with everyone else on Myspace – just leave it alone.
I don’t Twitter, but it’s definitely a sign of the time with some members of congress Twittering while in the Chamber. Several MPR radio show Twitter as well. I dont know how well it would work for the daily newspaper links here on the Parlor, but the Commentary articles written by the Parlor would do well in Twitty Land.
Hope my thoughts help. -sa
Facebook and ALL other social interaction sites are the SPAWN of SATAN! They collect information on you, they take ownerships of it and will use it for their commercial gain.
The engage in CENSORSHIP.
Run away…run FAR, FAR away.
danny, if you really want to take your site to the next level, you’ll team up with a real blogger like glyn wilson. now that guy is cutting edge and in the know, you don’t need all this trendy stuff when you got his webpress
anon #11 – Glynn Wilson? Come on.
I think it’s a stretch to call facebook “trendy” when it has more than 175 million users and has been around since 2004.
# 11–ROFLMAO
Yes to Twitter, if you were able to post instant news updates. But do you get so many updates that it would be worth it?
Not Facebook or Myspace. They really have nothing to add.
Twitter and Facebook are both great options. You can update Twitter and it will automatically update the Facebook status.
However, the real power in Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace is in engagement. I don’t follow many people who don’t follow others. When I look at profiles and see that they don’t follow many people, then they are indicating to me that they are only interested in expressing themselves and not interested in what others have to say.
If someon is only giving updates and not using these tools to listen and engage, then I am not interested in listening to them(unless there is a VERY compelling reason).
I always find it interesting to see how people respond to tweets and blogs in Facebook, FriendFeed, and in Twitter. Multiple tools are needed to get the full effect of online conversations.
Maybe you can beta-test twitter (and facebook, if you link the two) during session? quick tweets on votes, like post #1 said – it’s a quick dose of news from your cell phone and you can then elaborate / add your commentary here on the blog.