Join us tonight for another VizEds chat
I’ve neglected to post about it the past two weeks, but we’ve been doing this regularly now on Tuesday nights: using Twitter as a chatroom.
It’s a bit odd to use Twitter that way. But a large — and growing — number of visual editors are on Twitter every day. So it makes good sense to take VizEds to where its audience is.
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HOW TO JOIN US
If you’d like to join us, tonight, look for the chat hashtag:
#vizedschat
Make sure to include that in anything you say tonight. If you don’t, most of the chatters won’t see it.
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TONIGHT’S TOPIC
As usual, our moderator is Jim McBee. Jim tells us that tonight, Robb Montgomery has suggested we discuss options for possibly taking Visualeditors off of Ning.
You might recall, VizEds has been a Ning social networking site for a little more than two years. VizEds started out in 2004 as a bulletin board site. A couple of weeks ago when Ning announced it was changing the way it runs its business, Robb assured me it wouldn’t affect VizEds. So this surprises me. You now know as much about this as I do.
Of course, there are a lot of folks who drop by just to say hello or to talk about other things. That’s OK, too. I think it’s fair to say there aren’t a lot of rules in the VizEds chat.
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WHAT TIME?
We’ll begin around…
- 9 p.m. Eastern time
- 8 p.m. Central time
- 7 p.m. Mountain time
- 6 p.m. Pacific time
…and we go until we get tired.
For those of you who have never chatted with Twitter, here are a couple of tips…
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TWEET CHAT TIP NO. 1
Be advised that when you chat on Twitter, you’re broadcasting your chat to not just the folks in our virtual “chatroom,” but to all your Twitter followers. If you post a lot, you could swamp your tweeps with messages that they find awfully baffling.
Therefore, allow me to suggest: Open up a second account on Twitter. Use your regular Twitter account every day. Use the new account just for chatting.
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TWEET CHAT TIP NO. 2
Another suggestion: Don’t try to chat in the usual Twitter window. Instead, go to TweetChat — a site that’s very easy to use:
Not only will this site update your window automatically — no more hitting “refresh” every 20 seconds — it’ll also add that hashtag automatically.
You’ll be amazed how smoothly this works and how much like an old-fashioned chatroom it seems.