AWE Tweet Chats Coming?
I may miss the #editorchat on Twitter tonight. [Is that faint cheering in the background?] I'm running off to the fair. After days in deep "edit brain" mode, my body needs a little fun, junk food, seeing plants, touching animals, and time spent with a close friend.
One reason why I joined the chats for editors and attend via TweetChat.com, was to try out the activity with a thought of holding one for writers. Of course, the hundreds of you who tag along in MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, RSS Readers, via email (blog and Inspiration) will need to have Twitter accounts--but not necessarily to Follow me or to reveal your identities. I also signed up with another service that provides private chat rooms and, of course, there's always the much less secure chat services provided by MSN, Yahoo, Google and Orkut.
Anita Campbell summed up the advantages and features nicely in a post on the Online Media Network The Cool New Way to Network on Twitter:
Leave suggestions in comments, or send cards and letters (email).
One reason why I joined the chats for editors and attend via TweetChat.com, was to try out the activity with a thought of holding one for writers. Of course, the hundreds of you who tag along in MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, RSS Readers, via email (blog and Inspiration) will need to have Twitter accounts--but not necessarily to Follow me or to reveal your identities. I also signed up with another service that provides private chat rooms and, of course, there's always the much less secure chat services provided by MSN, Yahoo, Google and Orkut.
Anita Campbell summed up the advantages and features nicely in a post on the Online Media Network The Cool New Way to Network on Twitter:
The benefits of tweetchats are many. They bring together people with similar interests. You can crowd-source ideas. You can carry on a group discussion in context – and using the right tool – “see” the full conversation uninterrupted by unrelated tweets.What do you think? Would you like to have A Writer's Edge Chats? What form appeals most: general gabfests, directed conversations, specific topics, a mixture? Or about which subjects would you like to have a chat with me, other writers and maybe editors, agents, publishers?
Leave suggestions in comments, or send cards and letters (email).
Labels: technology, writers
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 8:38 AM
2 Comments:
I think a writers' chat could be fun, certainly interesting, but I'd hate to see it be on twitter. I'm not a "tweep" and probably never will be. I'd much rather see it in a more traditional chat-style.
Thanks for the input, David. Could you expound on what you mean by "traditional"? Were you referring to subjects of the chats or the technology used?
The advantage of using Twitter is that it is like RSS (really simple, stupid!) and already set up with so many ancillary third-party applications to help, like TweetChat, TwitterChat, TweetGrid that make chats manageable and fun. And easy. And free.
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