TikTok is different for sure, but 30 seconds of a dance clip would probably
be all it takes to get some views. Also, if you have any lessons recorded,
those can make for great source material, if you can find 30-90 second
snippets of them that can stand alone.
What you do is show the viewer what
As someone who considers themselves a millennial, I don’t use Twitter and I
think that if people my age use Twitter, it’s to read linked news articles or
follow people they like, not necessarily for promotion.
I’m on Instagram a fair amount and “follow” certain hashtags so I can see
what’s
We set up a Twitter for Ottawa Contra Dance back in 2014. However, hardly
anything happens with it.
The mailchimp e-newsletters are posted automatically onto twitter.
https://twitter.com/ottawacontra?lang=en
I'm in my mid-40s so can't speak for the younger crowd anymore but I do
hear a lot of
Users of different socials cluster heavily by age. My college students
refuse to use Facebook. They use Instagram a lot. Discord is where they
hang out, but Discord isn't useful for getting in front of new users.
Facebook is getting less and less effective at that, too. Facebook started
being
I can’t speak to what Rich meant by “our desired audience” but I personally
don’t think of Twitter as a place people go looking for local social dances to
attend, so I think it’s not most social dances’ desired audience of “people who
might come to a dance.” We use Facebook and Meetup to
Hi Rich,
I always thought of the folk scene as an inclusive community.
"our desired audience"
This hit me on a personal level.
Why be exclusive?
Thanks and good health, Weogo
On 5/9/2023 9:39 AM, Rich Dempsey via Organizers wrote:
We have disabled our Twitter account. In addition to our
We have disabled our Twitter account. In addition to our concerns with
current management, we've found that keeping up with many social media
accounts hard to manage. And some CDR organizers feel that Twitter doesn't
align with our desired audience.
Rich Dempsey
Country Dancers of Rochester (NY)
