Monday, May 18, 2009
Twitter put to new use
So you thought Twitter was only for twits? A substantial use of it that I heard of this morning was that the surgeons are twittering the world (at the family's behest) about the moment to moment progress of a kidney transplant from a dad to his three year old son. The family is already a twittering kind of clan and wanted to use the Twitter platform to promote the need for organ donations around the world. The public relations division of the hospital jumped on the idea and have it all going this morning. So, let's think of other relevant ways to use Twitter to make learning links of substance.
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it seems like recently all we have been hearing about are all the significant ways twitter is being used. from transplants to gourmet food wagon location it seems like twitter's 15 minutes may be extended. it certainly begs the very exciting question - what next?
ReplyDeleteHow fascinating! I've heard that business networking is also taking off with Twitter.
ReplyDeleteIt's been said that folks who meet via Twitter will be able to get comfortable with each other more quickly than if they met in a more business like setting.
I think this is great for those people who really struggle with the face-to-face social networking interactions.
ow fascinating.