It was Sunday morning, and I was tempted to go to the beach with my girlfriends, but I couldn’t shake the idea of making Julia Child’s beef bourguignon. I had just finished her book “My Life in France” and the night before we saw “Julie & Julia.” On top of all this, I learned that… [Continue]
What is Twitter? Part Two
So, seeing as I have only skimmed the surface of Twitter, and have not specifically addressed many of the more technical issues, here are some additional resources. But first, a video from CommonCraft, Twitter in Plain English. Now .. Another video, this one from Biz Stone, one of the Twitter founders: Okay… I promised more… [Continue]
What is Twitter? Part One
Twitter is commonly called a micro-blogging platform, because it limits all posts (called tweets) to 140 characters. Another way to look at Twitter is as broadcast text messaging. Instant Messaging (IM) is a message sent to one person. A tweet is a short message broadcast to all your followers. As a social media phenomena, there… [Continue]