In article <4a4fd58b.2000...@gmail.com>, JC Dill
<jcdill.li...@gmail.com> writes
Even easier, you make an email address on your system that is an alias
to posterous. So they send to "p...@schoolsystem.edu" which .forwards
out to posterous, which posts to the school blog, myspace, facebook,
twitter,
It doesn't have any of those, that's the point really.
Is twitter the one I should get them started with first?
Show them how a radio station can retweet the info
It's have to be automated as there are hundreds to do over a periods of
a few tens of minutes (the schools don't generally announce they are
closing until they see how many teachers made it to work, and that's not
long before they have to open - students get marked down for being late,
even in bad weather, so can't delay setting out from home; it's an
interesting operational model.)
and then announce "to get info on school closings, follow us on twitter
at...."
http://twitter.com/trentfmnews (but it's not exactly high traffic)
and everyone can send the info TO the radio station and get the info
FROM the radio station quickly and easily.
The radio station would probably be overwhelmed if they got much more
than one tweet per school.
I don't think it has. All they ever hear about other Web2.0 like
Facebook and Bebo is how dangerous they are for kids.
Sheesh. Cars and bikes are far more dangerous for kids than Facebook
and Bebo. That's why kids are taught the rules of the road, to always
wear bike helmets, to always buckle up in the car, and they get driver
training.
Part of my day job is getting that sort of training about using the
Internet, into schools. So far most of them have only got as far as
teaching the students how to operate Powerpoint (yes I know that's not
an Internet application), and installing filters to try to keep them off
YouTube during lessons.
But I'm beginning to think that finally maybe Twitter has the right
profile for this application.
Again, why limit yourself? Use all the tools available.
One step at a time :)
--
Roland Perry