Twitter has been on the ‘to do’ list for a long time, yet it has only been very recently that i have noticed those clipped chirpy sounds echoing around me with every piece of media i am exposed to. Not only on the internet, but on the television, in newspapers, and word around town too. I have come to the conclusion that Twitter has captured the ability to keep a running commentary on life.
A societal club i am involved in had its Annual General Meeting last night, to which i begrudgingly attended with the assumption that it would be a tedious task of listening and voting on motions i didn’t understand. The first hour and a half was panning out according to my supposition, and was making me sleepy as the darkening hour of 10pm loomed, until my friend next to me enlightened me to simulcast live feed.
A facebook feed of over 600 comments pertaining to the motions being simultaneously put forward by members of the committee. Not only did it lighten the onerous task of listening to number crunching accounts, data sheets and strength and weakness reflections, it also put the confusing clauses of 13.4.1A and 2.3.6C into plain english for me. A whole heap of people were able to translate the cumbersome sentence structures for the feed followers which helped to understand the reasoning behind each motion and set of data which otherwise seemed quite foreign.
While this feed was not a twitter supported use of media, what started out as a tagging of 6 people to the status ‘AGM!!!!!’ on facebook, turned out to be followed and commented on by over 10 different users. If this is not a positive use of Web 2.0’s dynamic facilitation then i may just have to abstain from commenting.
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Posted in New media interest, Technology Updates, Users' interest with tags AGM, comments, facebook, tagging, twitter on May 9, 2011 by alexandrachambersTwitter has been on the ‘to do’ list for a long time, yet it has only been very recently that i have noticed those clipped chirpy sounds echoing around me with every piece of media i am exposed to. Not only on the internet, but on the television, in newspapers, and word around town too. I have come to the conclusion that Twitter has captured the ability to keep a running commentary on life.
A societal club i am involved in had its Annual General Meeting last night, to which i begrudgingly attended with the assumption that it would be a tedious task of listening and voting on motions i didn’t understand. The first hour and a half was panning out according to my supposition, and was making me sleepy as the darkening hour of 10pm loomed, until my friend next to me enlightened me to simulcast live feed.
A facebook feed of over 600 comments pertaining to the motions being simultaneously put forward by members of the committee. Not only did it lighten the onerous task of listening to number crunching accounts, data sheets and strength and weakness reflections, it also put the confusing clauses of 13.4.1A and 2.3.6C into plain english for me. A whole heap of people were able to translate the cumbersome sentence structures for the feed followers which helped to understand the reasoning behind each motion and set of data which otherwise seemed quite foreign.
While this feed was not a twitter supported use of media, what started out as a tagging of 6 people to the status ‘AGM!!!!!’ on facebook, turned out to be followed and commented on by over 10 different users. If this is not a positive use of Web 2.0’s dynamic facilitation then i may just have to abstain from commenting.
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