About a month ago, Bryan Person and I were ragchewing on Twitter about the whole ‘engagement’ thing. Out of that came a blog post you can read here.
A big thanks to Bryan for letting me mouth off and use his blog as a soap box.
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Robert Scoble has returned from 30 days in the heart of darkness with 3,571 favorites on Twitter (of which yours truly is the author of exactly one). He’s also learned a few things and pay attention – he’s sharing.
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The Internet has changed the way we do a lot of things, from buying cars and books to keeping in touch with friends. One thing that was made clear to me when I read Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody
Last night we had a textbook example of that phenomena in action. No sooner did Congressman Joe Wilson finish his outburst than did the wheels of Internet activism start turning. Within minutes of identifying the guilty party, his 2008 and presumptive 2010 opponent was identified. Plans were hatched on Twitter and the left wing blogosphere And through the platform provided by Act Blue, since last night Rob Miller, Wilson’s opponent, has raised nearly $800,000, one quarter of that from folks who found the link to Act Blue through Daily Kos alone.
Only a few short years ago, contributing to a political campaign involved writing a check, getting an envelope and walking to the mailbox. Getting involved as a volunteer meant you had to first find the campaign office, get there, find the campaign coordinator, etc. etc. etc. Forget even trying to build a movement, you would need an office and telephone for that. Now we have a million strands of connectivity and when something happens like last night, activists find each other and … act.
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Nor will I change my Twitter icon green.
If turning the site green would help, then perhaps, but it’d merely feed that narcissistic desire some people have to “do” something. Hackers creating proxies for Iranians to bypass their nation’s internet censors? THAT’S doing something tangible and of great value.
Now go do something important, for a change.
/rant over
I just read an interesting piece about how Twitter is being used by various folks in nearby Pleasantville, NY.
@Pleasantville has a following of 115 mostly local individuals and organizations. The next goal for the @Pleasantville project is to dramatically increase the number of businesses participating, giving local residents more incentive to sign up for Twitter. I’m shooting for 500 mostly local followers by the end of June, and my plan is to make regular posts to this blog to keep readers informed about our progress. The real goal, of course, is not about numbers of followers, but of bringing benefits to the local community.
Link.
Back home in Pound Ridge, I’m helping out a friend who’s running for local office and unlike my run two years ago, social media has grown to the point where we can realistically use tools like Twitter and Facebook to get our message out.
In searching around the neighborhood, I found a handful of Pound Ridge-related twitter accounts. Bonnie Brodnick, local author and journalist covering all things Northern Westchester is @bonni_brodnick. I’ve also discovered Bonnie is blogging. Who knew?
Pound Ridge’s controversial golf course has a Twitter account but nothing there about the pesticides found in neighbors’ drinking water. Just platitudes. What a wasted opportunity.
Finally there’s the Pound Ridge Nurseries’s twitter feed and blog. Both great resources from a great local institution that I’m glad to have found.
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