While Twitter is down…
Twitter has become the social networking site where I’ve made the most new acquaintances. Many of them are authors of blogs I had subscribed to but was struggling to keep up with, and more notably tended toward the A-list in the socialmediasphere.
I only started tweeting regularly when I went to AFCEA Solutions on behalf of Signal Magazine, where I’m new media editor. I soon after shifted the work-related tweets to @signalmag while keeping my personal but very public tweets at @helenmosher. After only three weeks using twitter, traffic to my blog has quadrupled. Granted, part of that is the amount of traffic that’s showing up looking for Scrabulous secrets, but much of it has been the twitter audience that I’m cultivating, slowly.
If you were to comb through the archives of my blog, you’d see that I haven’t always been a social media strategist, and much of this blog serves as an interactive memoir, spiritual journal, and clip file archive (I was a feature-writing journalist for almost a decade, with stints as a music critic, university microphone, and financial services editor). While Twitter’s been down, I’ve made the archives a bit easier to page through by reacquainting myself with the Wordpress loop and creating my archives to run as full posts. The way I see it, if you are browsing my archives and only get titles, you might miss out on a post you might enjoy. If you are browsing my archives and only get excerpts, you’re certainly going to miss some of the punch lines. Fewer clicks to save your sanity and mine.
So browse away. I’d suggest using the category browse rather than the date browse, simply because there are entire swaths of time I talk about one topic seemingly to the exclusion of any other. This is partly a result of migrating content from something like 12 different blogs and journals as I vacillated over where I was going to wind up on the web. Over time, I hope to have these archives more fully populated; they go back to 1998 at least and I may have some material from before that.
Thanks for stopping by, and lo, I’ve already killed 60 of those minutes that Twitter is down. What are you doing while Twitter is down? Blogging? Sleeping? Reconnecting with family members you haven’t seen in years?






