Tech Geek

Last week you may have noticed the Twitter T along with Tweet the E! in the sidebar of the e-news, right below my post. It's inviting those of us who tweet to go ahead and add the #ext10 hash-tag into our tweets that are connected to the Extravaganza. For those of us attending, this will be a great way to stay informed about plans. For those of you who aren't able to be there, you can follow these tweets to get a little flavor of the event. And if you want to learn more, keep reading, and attend a workshop while you're in Charlotte.

We've claimed the Twitter hash-tag #ext10 for the Extravaganza in Charlotte. If you use a Twitter client of some sort (there are tons of them listed at http://twitter.com/downloads) it should be fairly easy for you to add a search for the hash tag. Using twhirl by Seesmic, my current client, I clicked the search icon, entered the #ext10 hash-tag, and clicked Activate.

If you don't use Twitter, or if you don't use it through a client, you can visit http://search.twitter.com and enter the hash-tag, or just click here. Or you can go the the ELCA Youth Ministry Network homepage at http://www.elcaymnet.org and there is a widget there that is scrolling all the tweets with this tag. You can also follow @elcaymnet, the ELCA Youth Ministry Network Twitter feed.

Scott Hensley over at Shots, the National Public Radio Health Blog, just posted an item about the Centers for Disease Control's new nine-page Twitter primer. The whole primer, http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/guidelines/pdf/microblogging.pdf, is a bit bureaucratic, but it does raise some good best practices that are usable everywhere. Shots summarizes these best practices at the bottom of their post.

If you're a Twitter user and have a connection to the network, post your name below in the comments. You can see a bunch of us by looking at http://twitter.com/elcaymnet/followers (after signing into Twitter).

See some of you in Charlotte!