Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Friends, fans, countrymen

Posted May 27, 2011 by
in Announcements, Editorial | 1 comment »

You’re on Facebook. We’re on Facebook. We should be friends — or fans — but beyond that, we want to know what you like to do on Facebook, and what you’d like us to do. Right now, we link to blog content and occasionally post random updates. (We do that on Twitter, too.) But there’s undoubtedly more to be done, and for a social media wallflower like me, who only got a personal FB account last fall and still doesn’t use it very much, it’s hard to determine what’s best. Do you want more random updates? Polls? Quizzes? Photos? Games?

Legally, I don’t think we’re allowed to run Facebook-only contests, but if you have any other suggestions, please write to us here or in the comments.

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We’re on Facebook!

Posted July 9, 2009 by
in Where to Go? | Add your comment »

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Ok, so we’ve been on Facebook for a while… I’m still playing around with it and figuring out apps and so on. (It would seem the business pages are much less flexible than personal profiles.)

The URL is not pretty—eventually, we’ll have to set up a redirect, cause we’re not yet eligible for one of those fancy new vanity URLs that everyone was talking about last month. Nonetheless, if you’re on Facebook, and you’re interested, please stop by and become a fan, start a discussion, or post something to our Wall!

Speaking of which… survey time, cause I don’t know the protocol: is it better to reproduce the first few lines of each blog post on our Wall, with a link to the full-text version in the Notes section, as it’s currently set up? (None of the other blogging apps I tried seemed to work very well.) Or would a Twitter-style update that simply announces each new post, and links to the blog, be better?

See you on Facebook!

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Tweets and Twibes

Posted July 7, 2009 by
in Pens, Paper & People | 5 comments »

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Quick question for all you Twitter users: are you a member of any Twibes? What do and don’t you like about them?

Karen and I recently noticed a Twibe for fountain pen users whose membership already includes a lot of people we know from our blog and our Twitter feed. We were also intrigued by the possibility of creating a Twibe around notebooks and paper. I guess those are two separate questions, but we’re not sure if either of them is something we should do—would it just start to seem like some cynical corporate thing? And are Twibes any better than hashtags for communicating about a specific topic?

If you have an opinion, please let us know in the comments (or on Twitter, which is where this question’s headed next). Thanks!

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