{"id":2535,"date":"2011-02-15T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2011-02-15T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T16:28:26","slug":"first-look-forum-participants-please-join-us-wednesday-evening-for-a-twitter-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/02\/15\/first-look-forum-participants-please-join-us-wednesday-evening-for-a-twitter-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look Forum participants, please join us Wednesday evening for a Twitter chat!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As we head into the homestretch with the First Look Forum, we wanted to give an opportunity for people to ask some last-minute questions and get some quick feedback.\u00c2\u00a0 Email works, of course, but it’s soooooo 20th century.\u00c2\u00a0 So we’re also going to be having a Twitter chat, on Wednesday February 16 at 7:30 p.m<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never been to a Twitter chat before, you’re missing out on some good fun.\u00c2\u00a0 It moves quickly, and with a lot of people talking at once it packs a lot of information into a short time.\u00c2\u00a0 Whether or not you have a Twitter account, you can follow the discussion on the #nwen hashtag using TweetChat at http:\/\/tweetchat.com\/room\/nwen<\/a> or use your favorite Twitter client<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want to join in the conversation? \u00c2\u00a0 You’ll need to have a Twitter account — you can sign up at http:\/\/twitter.com\/signup<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Twitter’s FAQ<\/a> and Howcast’s How To Use Twitter<\/a> video have more information to get you started.<\/p>\n

If there are some topics you’d like to see discussed, feel free to leave them as comments here — or you can email to me at jon {at} achangeiscoming {dot} net.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Or even better, you can tweet them to me –\u00c2\u00a0 I’m @jdp23<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read on for more background (originally from the ACM Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference<\/a>‘s Getting started on Twitter<\/a> page).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 See you on Twitter!<\/p>\n

jon<\/p>\n

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Making sense of what’s going on<\/h2>\n

Experienced Twitterers use a lot of conventions and abbreviations to maximize how much information they can fit into 140 characters, and it can be very bewildering getting started. Here’s a quick cheat sheet:<\/p>\n