Working the Circuit: 1.2

I’m finally twittering. I have a handful of followers and a number of people I am following. Last week I tweeted about some of the new Gates Foundation public service ads in support of US Government Foreign Assistance. I thought they were fairly effective. I also highlighted a recent digital media event I went to at Georgetown. That event was picked up by a blogger for the “one” site. The organizer and I had an interesting exchange offline about the challenges to media coverage of Africa. I also caught up on some of the tweets from my company’s feed. I didn’t realize we had one. It’s not very active and only has a handful of followers. I think there needs to be some thinking about what value there is in corporate twittering. Frankly, there could be some thinking on personal twittering as well. I mean, some folks can tweet all night long. I feel major twitter inadequacy. I also confess that I will not be able to tweet every hour, on the hour. Not even close. For one thing, I just don’t have that much to say. Also, I like my job and would like to keep it.

I Had limited time on Facebook this week. I did, however, look for Facebook groups in support of a public option for healthcare reform. I followed some of the discussions on the “No Public Option, No Vote” group page. I was curious that a movement which supposedly has the support of over 50,000,000 American has less than a thousand members. I noticed the group was actively working to recruit more supporters so perhaps that will change. Some of the members had useful links to other webpages with useful information and good articles supporting a public option.