Forum Activity for @peter-eckart

Whose connecting who?

ABCD and Youth

Call me crazy, but how about these two cutting-edge, digital-age ideas?+ Interested organizer hang out in parks and talk to the people who use it now.+ Interested organizers go door to door in the neighborhood surrounding the park and talk to the folks most likely to use it if it reflected their interests.I know it doesn't involve a computer, so it's not as good as the ideas you suggested above ...

Twitter - is it anti-community?

Tips, Tools, Strategies, and Technology

The issue isn't whether Twitter is anti-community. It's a tool. Would you say that a hammer is anti-community, or a cable-access television program? No, it's just a tool, and like all tools, its value flows from appropriate use.Twitter is not for community-building or community discussion. Twitter is good for announcements, for time-sensitive alerts, and for driving traffic to a more discussion-friendly medium (like a web forum or community meeting).Disregarding the harsh grammer ... Don't use Twitter for what it's not good for.