The City of Northfield doesn’t quite have its Twitter act together yet. CityofNfld Automated tweets of RSS feeds from the City of Northfield, MN website. Set up by a…
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Way back in 2004-05 when I was still at NCO/Northfield.org, we encouraged local civic leaders (including members of the city council, school board and county board) to start blogging. I…
We’ve added two buttons to the bottom of every blog post here on LoGroNo: If you have a Facebook profile, you can click the Recommend button and your recommendation will…
We got an email from Tim Freeland at KYMN today, alerting us and other local media folks to someone called @City_of_Nfld_PR on Twitter. Adam Gurno blogged about it on Northfield.org…
In the two years I’ve been using Twitter, I’ve primarily seen it as a micro-blogging service, another platform for publishing with some unique advantages that make it an important complementary tool to a blog.
But in past few months, I’ve discovered how valuable it also is for tuning into the voices of the people I’m most interested in.
David Carr wrote a Jan. 1, 2010 NY Times column titled Why Twitter Will Endure in which he describes this unique advantage of Twitter.
I’ve reread his column several times as I’ve come to experience what he’s described.
Some excerpts:
We’re now following 80+ Northfield-area people and organizations who are using Twitter. If you don’t see our LoGroNfld Twitter account among your followers, follow us and we’ll likely follow you.…
This sandwich board in the front of the Goodbye Blue Monday caught my eye, not only because it’s clever (“Look for us on Facebook & Twitter – but you won’t find us”) but because I’ve been trying to get smarter about how Twitter and Facebook can complement a blog.