Twitter is an online service for keeping in touch in real time. It has been brought up as a possible way to keep people in the loop about what is going on.
People who are interested in receiving messages would do a free sign-up on Twitter, then they would decide whether they want to receive their messages as an email, as a text message to their phone or as an instant message on their computer. When the parish want to communicate something, a message 140 characters or less would be sent.
While this was designed for people to keep in touch with friends about what they are doing, President Obama started using it during the campaign and the Israeli government uses it to keep people updated in the war with Hamas.
Right now we're playing with the idea -- as we're also curious to see how many people fill out a poll like this!
Would using Twitter be "instead of" or "in addition to" the ways you communicate now?
ReplyDeleteIf we do Twitter or something like it, it would be in addition to the things we currently do. Good question.
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In the first poll we've done we got 8 votes. 6 for and 2 against. What people most wanted were Holy Day reminders (8), followed by cancellations (7), Questions for the week (5), Big News (5), the weekend's Gospel (4), and funeral notices (3).
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