Summary and Discussions on the use of Social Media
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(In defence of TWITTER)
John DYER
ASPIRE Project Manager
2 August 2011
You are invited to make whatever "corrections" and/or changes you feel appropriate!
Introduction
This is a summary and discussion of the email discussions on social media that took place on the ASPIRE email distribution list. It represents the views of the discussion participants as seen through the eyes of the author.
Discussion
The view that EMAIL was the most appropriate channel for discussing "The Future of the R&E Internet" was strongly supported by a large number of participants on the aspire@terena.org email distribution list. One might suspect that due to the email channel being used for the discussion, this was hardly surprising.
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I believe we should embrace all the available channels (including email) and use the most appropriate for what we are trying to do. Let's not miss the opportunities that social media can bring (reaching a much larger audience very quickly) through an inability to adapt or unwillingness to adopt the new and unknown.
John DYER
ASPIRE Project Manager
2 August 2011
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