Comments on: Aunty Social http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/aunty-social/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:48:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: carla arena http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/aunty-social/#comment-29866 carla arena Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:04:33 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/aunty-social/#comment-29866 I also thought Twitter to be a little insane in the beginning, but now I keep getting these nuggets of interesting links, resources, meeting some interesting people, reconnecting to others, being updated on my friends' lives (well, at least, my virtual ones, for I guess the ones I meet f2f have no idea about this tool). There's always something interesting out there, and it seems you're never, ever alone. Funny, for example, with Claudia Ceraso. We've been bumping into each other for some time, but after Twitter we started connecting in a different way. I realized how much we have in common, been keeping track of her blogs, commenting there, getting her feedback...So, who said Twitter is not for good? And yes, Alan, I get all kinds of pseudo-friends that want to join my network. What's that all about? Do they want to show how popular they are? Do they want to have big numbers? In my case, I want to connect with someone that I'll be learning with, old friends, new ones, but the connection needs to be meaningful, not just for the numbers. In my case, it's about learning and sharing. My musings this morning... Carla I also thought Twitter to be a little insane in the beginning, but now I keep getting these nuggets of interesting links, resources, meeting some interesting people, reconnecting to others, being updated on my friends’ lives (well, at least, my virtual ones, for I guess the ones I meet f2f have no idea about this tool). There’s always something interesting out there, and it seems you’re never, ever alone. Funny, for example, with Claudia Ceraso. We’ve been bumping into each other for some time, but after Twitter we started connecting in a different way. I realized how much we have in common, been keeping track of her blogs, commenting there, getting her feedback…So, who said Twitter is not for good?

And yes, Alan, I get all kinds of pseudo-friends that want to join my network. What’s that all about? Do they want to show how popular they are? Do they want to have big numbers? In my case, I want to connect with someone that I’ll be learning with, old friends, new ones, but the connection needs to be meaningful, not just for the numbers. In my case, it’s about learning and sharing.

My musings this morning…

Carla

]]> By: Gardner http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/aunty-social/#comment-29864 Gardner Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:57:59 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/aunty-social/#comment-29864 Claudia's pretty much nailed it for me, too. Thanks, Claudia. And Alan, choose your channels and let fly: I'll be listening. :) Claudia’s pretty much nailed it for me, too. Thanks, Claudia. And Alan, choose your channels and let fly: I’ll be listening. :)

]]> By: Claudia Ceraso http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/aunty-social/#comment-29861 Claudia Ceraso Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:34:41 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/aunty-social/#comment-29861 Last Friday I thought of having only the twitter window open while reading pages in web 0.0, I mean paper. Just to have some like-minded company while doing a somewhat boring task. Twitter was not showing any updates for 2 hours. I thought, what if they all suddenly decided to get tired of tweets? Fortunately, someone else decided to voice the problem. You're still there. Magic. Blogs are definitely the node to network, to express yourself fully. Would we have met otherwise? But there is a need of proximity. In your words, Alan, "being there". So here we are at different stages of "meeting": 1. Blog- When there is time to read and the topic is attractive or relevant to my learning stage. Reflection. 2. IM-skype - Same time. When there is some purpose (not just hi!). Action, collaboration. 3. F2F - When lucky enough. (When the plane ticket is affordable -alas! not from BA...When job or holidays allow for it... ) 4. Twitter- Anyhow, any topic, anytime. And free. Two thousand friends in twitter? Only tweeting interesting links? They did not get it. You subscribe to the person, not the blog. Keep barking! Last Friday I thought of having only the twitter window open while reading pages in web 0.0, I mean paper. Just to have some like-minded company while doing a somewhat boring task.

Twitter was not showing any updates for 2 hours. I thought, what if they all suddenly decided to get tired of tweets? Fortunately, someone else decided to voice the problem. You’re still there. Magic.

Blogs are definitely the node to network, to express yourself fully. Would we have met otherwise? But there is a need of proximity. In your words, Alan, “being there”.

So here we are at different stages of “meeting”:
1. Blog- When there is time to read and the topic is attractive or relevant to my learning stage. Reflection.
2. IM-skype - Same time. When there is some purpose (not just hi!). Action, collaboration.
3. F2F - When lucky enough. (When the plane ticket is affordable -alas! not from BA…When job or holidays allow for it… )
4. Twitter- Anyhow, any topic, anytime. And free.

Two thousand friends in twitter? Only tweeting interesting links? They did not get it. You subscribe to the person, not the blog.

Keep barking!

]]> By: Alex Ragone http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/aunty-social/#comment-29856 Alex Ragone Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:04:55 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/25/aunty-social/#comment-29856 Hey Alan, What's funny is that twitter, is that when I heard about it, I thought, "that's insane." But the small chunks of info as well as personal posts there satiates my urge to better know those folks in my aggregator. For a person who doesn't always open his aggretator, it is a nice place to see conversations such as there. Cheers, - Alex Hey Alan,

What’s funny is that twitter, is that when I heard about it, I thought, “that’s insane.” But the small chunks of info as well as personal posts there satiates my urge to better know those folks in my aggregator. For a person who doesn’t always open his aggretator, it is a nice place to see conversations such as there.

Cheers, - Alex

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