by Vince on January 7, 2010
I added a second Twitter account today. I find that I’m hesitant to tweet about church leadership, ministry strategy and the like on my every day twitter account (@locustfist). I have set up a Twitter for leadership and ministry strategy type content that you should follow if you’re into that type of thing – @vincemarotte. For more on the reasons, check out my article on Missional Social Media at ChurchCrunch.com
@locustfist will still be my main every day twitter so stay with me if you follow it.
I have been telling people how much I love newspapers because the are a handy archive of the stuff I read online yesterday.
I have pretty much grown up in the age of the news being on TV every night. This news was probably a day or two old by the time most people heard it.
Along came the internet and you could get your news 12-18 hours later.
Then blogs entered the picture and your news has only a few hours old. Sweet!
Twitter is here now and it seems as if news is old after about 15 minutes. A couple times a day I check in at TwitScoop.com and a lot of times you can see live news happening right before your eyes.
When we have an earthquake down here in SoCal, I can check Twitter and I know how big it was, where it was centered and if my friends and family are okay long before the TV news can even get a camera in front of a reporter.
This blog post is old news…
Did you have a Geocities site? I did. It was a site about me! Pictures of me. Info About me. Pretty lame. Cool for showing your mom sweet pictures from the dorm when you were home for Christmas.
Myspace. Pretty much a site about me. It had a section on the page that wasn’t about me; it had links to my ‘friends’ pages that were about them.
Facebook. A little more about my friends, but based on a page about me. Only this time there’s a little space there where you can say something about you.
Twitter. People have tried to make it about them. They were ignored
by Vince on March 6, 2009
When you tell someone that you’re going to go have dinner with some people you know from Twitter and your blog, you get a funny look and they start talking about that ‘to catch a predator‘ news piece. I guess that’s what a lot of people think of the internet.
Anyway, Brent was in town from Oregon and we thought that was a good enough reason to get together. So after some idea swapping on Google Moderator, we settled on the Yard House at the Irvine Spectrum.
Those in attendance :: James and Rhonda, Brent, Ron, Chad and Sarah, Matt and Rich.
I had a great time and now I have a stack of 1$ coins from the toll road.
by Vince on March 1, 2009
by Vince on February 7, 2009
If you aren’t on Twitter, you’re missing out on a lot of fun. One thing I really dig is a little thing called TwitPic. If you have a phone with a data plan that you can send email from, you’re good to go. There’s probably another way to do it, that’s how I roll though.
As cool as twitter is, it’s even cooler to get photos from people you are following. Here’s some of my favorites:
The mouse I trapped
A sign that doesn’t make sense
My sons guns
Sweet mullet?
Three legged chihuahua
If you don’t twitter, I send my choice pics to Flickr too and the show up in that side bar widget to the right.
