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World Migratory Bird Day and the Use of Social Media

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Subject: World Migratory Bird Day and the Use of Social Media
From: Simon Mustoe <>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 02:46:12 +0000
Hi,

I've just written an article on http://bird-o.com/, about the user of Twitter 
for birding conservation, which may be of interest. It uses the example of 
World Migratory Bird Day. Despite the use of Twitter by birders, I am not 
convinced that Australian birders are using Twitter to the extent that they 
could but that also, there is the need to understand the tool a bit before 
embarking. It's amazingly useful but there are potential pitfalls...as always, 
content providers have to be careful not to 'SPAM' peoples accounts (as they 
will easily lose followers).

There has been plenty of discussion about not detracting from birding-aus and I 
am sure some will believe that using Twitter does this. But remember, 
Birding-aus is archived with pages on Google 
(http://groups.google.com/group/birding-aus) which can potentially be tweeted 
out, if they are of general interest. So whilst the members of birding-aus may 
want to receive 50 messages a day, maybe one or two a week will be really 
important and users may send these out to their followers on Twitter. However, 
it would be a very great mistake to automate birding-aus onto Twitter as it 
would create a deluge of articles.

It always comes down to knowing your media, how to use it and how not to use 
it. There are a few insights in the post.

Regards,

Simon Mustoe.







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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Birding and the Use of Social Media
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> Birders, along with the rest of the public, have been making increased
> use of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter.  While these
> services are useful, there are aspects that are less appealing.
>
> There is an article on what Facebook is doing with the information
> placed on its site in a recent edition of the New York Times - 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/technology/internet/06facebook.html
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