Web 2.0 Technologies

The other kind of 'digital divide'...

Here's an example of the differing practices between digital natives and digital immigrants (in Project Tomorrow Speak Up survey parlance!): two young girls, ages 10 and 12, were recently lost in a storm drain system in Adelaide, Australia. They had cell phones. Did they use it to call for help? No. Instead, in accord with their communications practices, they posted a status update message on Facebook, ultimately resulting in rescue, but with considerable delay!

Leveraging Twitter

We have been experimenting with Twitter and using it as a way to get information out quickly and using Expert Voices to link to a given tweet to provide more information and context.  

We've also been using bit.ly  http://bit.ly as a way of tracking tweets and getting stats around postings.

I'd like to hear from others on how they are using Twitter and if you are using any widgets or applications that have been built around Twitter for tracking or pushing content.

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