{"id":348,"date":"2009-02-12T09:15:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=348"},"modified":"2009-02-12T09:15:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T16:15:51","slug":"feedback-please-on-draft-recommendations-how-progressives-can-use-twitter-strategically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/02\/12\/feedback-please-on-draft-recommendations-how-progressives-can-use-twitter-strategically\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback, please on draft recommendations: how progressives can use Twitter strategically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy Viselli and I are working on an article for <em>The Exception <\/em>on how progressives can use Twitter.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s our current thinking on recommendations:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>progressives should get good at Twitter best practices<\/strong>: insiders providing information regularly, backchannels at conferences and workshops, regular Twitter-based chats by organizations and bloggers, contact lists and skills pitching to journalists who prefer Twitter, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>activists need to refine techniques for Twitter-based &#8220;flash actions&#8221;<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.renodiscontent.com\/2008\/08\/05\/political-activism-on-twitter-the-story-of-dontgo\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ericodom.blogivists.com\/2008\/08\/07\/is-dontgo-an-astroturf-movement\/\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renodiscontent.com\/2009\/02\/05\/digg-it-a-proposal\/\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=343\">4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renodiscontent.com\/2009\/02\/10\/taxcuts-creating-twitter-hashtags-that-inspire-action\/\">5<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/womensrights.change.org\/blog\/view\/can_social_media_save_the_day_the_evolution_of_topprog_digg_amp_fem2\">6)<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Social computing technologies are tools; we need to learn to use them effectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Twitter can be a medium for  progressives to engage online with communities currently marginalized by the &#8220;progressive blogosphere&#8221;<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Shared vocabulary and hashtag structure, and respect for different norms in different hashtags, can help.<em> <\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>we should reach out to conservatives, libertarians, and greens<\/strong> to explore ways to engage more constructively<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The full article will of course go into detail on the thinking and experiences that lead to the recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Any feedback?\u00c2\u00a0 Suggestions for improvements, related experiences, criticisms, ideas about how to make this happen &#8212; it&#8217;s all good.\u00c2\u00a0 Please don&#8217;t be shy!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll do our best to incorporate the feedback in the final draft.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks much!<\/p>\n<p>jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy Viselli and I are working on an article for The Exception on how progressives can use Twitter.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s our current thinking on recommendations: progressives should get good at Twitter best practices: insiders providing information regularly, backchannels at conferences and workshops, regular Twitter-based chats by organizations and bloggers, contact lists and skills pitching to journalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[25,120,378],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-social-computing","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-activism","tag-drafts","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}