The Giddy Social Whirl...Twitter takes work.

Kate Williams ponders the world of social media, and today discovers that...

...Twitter takes work.


SQUEAL! The Social Whirl is back!

While the Lovely Tia was on her hols I was seconded, as you may or may not have noted, to @eModeration Twitter duty.

Bearing in mind the goodwill which Tia commands in the social media world, and her numerous followers, this felt like a bit of a – you know - well, I don’t want to say ‘it felt like not that hard of a job’, but it felt like not that hard of a job.

So. In my Big To-Do list for last week, I had the following:

1. Decide on flooring for ballroom at Social Towers.
2. Dye peacocks on the far lawn.
3. Tweet snippets of social and tech tittle-tattle as and when.

Turns out that Number 3 was a bit harder than I’d anticipated.

It was glorious fun, and jolly interesting, and all. But it was also Quite Hard, and Very Time-Consuming. There were moments of awkward self-consciousness - when I suddenly found it impossible to predict whether a particular snippet would be of any interest to anyone, in the whole world, ever. But also brilliant revelatory moments, when I interacted with very smart people who knew their stuff, and when I hope I passed along some chunks of social media goodness which might not otherwise have reached its target.

In acknowledgement of which truth, my first link of the season is a reminder of Mashable’s 10 Dos and Don’ts for Brands on Twitter.

Because sometimes the oldies are the goodies, and you never know how hard it is till you try.


A Bientot, Mes Amis! 

Image courtesy of Oversocialized via Flickr