In article <786ba8c0-b534-40ff-9126-1e33bd11c...@americafree.tv>,
Marshall Eubanks writes
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with
actual real life customers.
I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent.
I'm about to recommend to an organ
> Paying a lot more to host the website with higher "burst" capacity
> during an emergency, isn't an option.
>
> The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive
> an SMS via some sort of broadcast service (the news will fit easily in
> one SMS).
If the event is suitably
In article <200907041222.naa23...@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>, Brandon
Butterworth writes
Paying a lot more to host the website with higher "burst" capacity
during an emergency, isn't an option.
The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive
an SMS via some sort of broadcast s
On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
In article <786ba8c0-b534-40ff-9126-1e33bd11c...@americafree.tv>,
Marshall Eubanks writes
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with
actual real life customers.
I would assume they figured it was better than just re
Roland Perry wrote:
In article <786ba8c0-b534-40ff-9126-1e33bd11c...@americafree.tv>,
Marshall Eubanks writes
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with
actual real life customers.
I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent.
I'm about to
In article ,
Marshall Eubanks writes
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with
actual real life customers.
I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent.
I'm about to recommend to an organisation that it [a twitter account]
is better than
Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
blogspot account would make a lot more sense.
Jeff
On 7/4/09, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>
> On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>
> > In article
> <78
In article <4a4f5e3c.5040...@gmail.com>, JC Dill
writes
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with
actual real life customers.
I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent.
I'm about to recommend to an organisation that it [a twitter accou
Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 10:47 -0400, Jeffrey Lyon a écrit :
> Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
> like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
> blogspot account would make a lot more sense.
Yes.
What about (continue to) use old email (inc l
Roland Perry wrote:
What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to
Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too
"unofficial", or "unsupported" or something like that.
Anyone who makes that argument is just showing how little they know
about Twitter. It wou
In article
<16720fe00907040747k67ca1206kb871420deb5e8...@mail.gmail.com>, Jeffrey
Lyon writes
Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
blogspot account would make a lot more sense.
That's the kind of "ma
In article <4a4f6ef5.9030...@gmail.com>, JC Dill
writes
What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to
Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too
"unofficial", or "unsupported" or something like that.
Anyone who makes that argument is just showing how l
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Scott Howard wrote:
We're looking at getting connectivity via Level 3 in a particular
datacenter, but we're being told that it's "legacy Wiltel/Looking Glass"
rather than "true" Level 3.
Given that both of these acquisitions occurred years ago should I be
worried, or is this
On 04/07/09 17:07, Roland Perry wrote:
That's the kind of "marketing-led" response I was hoping to hear.
But the UK National Rail system now uses Tweets to tell customers about
disruptions on the trains, and several major UK government departments
and news organisations use it for announcements
Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 16:58 +0200, Michael Hallgren a écrit :
> Le samedi 04 juillet 2009 à 10:47 -0400, Jeffrey Lyon a écrit :
> > Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
> > like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
> > blogspot account would
Roland Perry wrote:
> In article
> <16720fe00907040747k67ca1206kb871420deb5e8...@mail.gmail.com>, Jeffrey
> Lyon writes
>> Personally, I find it difficult to take Twitter seriously. It seems
>> like more of a kids toy than a business tool. Something like a
>> blogspot account would make a lot more
In article , Chris Hills
writes
That's the kind of "marketing-led" response I was hoping to hear.
But the UK National Rail system now uses Tweets to tell customers about
disruptions on the trains, and several major UK government departments
and news organisations use it for announcements and "B
Leo:
That presumes the people at the bottom care about the big picture. I'd
hazard to guess that the people who participate in this listserv *do* care,
but if Dilbert has even any correlation to real life, then just as often
there are people who build DNS/DHCP/etc redundantly because that's what
When the local power companies uses twitter, then maybe I'll consider using
twitter for our customers.
There's the temptation by some of companies to leverage the latest
technology to appear "cool" and "in tune" with customers, but by far and
large, when something goes down customers either do no
Am 04.07.2009 um 22:59 schrieb Frank Bulk:
When the local power companies uses twitter, then maybe I'll
consider using
twitter for our customers.
well it seems popular
http://www.dell.com/twitter
dell made some money with it too
http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2009
Frank Bulk wrote:
When the local power companies uses twitter, then maybe I'll consider using
twitter for our customers.
There's the temptation by some of companies to leverage the latest
technology to appear "cool" and "in tune" with customers, but by far and
large, when something goes down cus
On 7/4/09 7:50 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to
Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too
"unofficial", or "unsupported" or something like that.
Anecdotal, of course, but I found twitter to be very useful during the
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 03:59:48PM -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
> When the local power companies uses twitter, then maybe I'll consider using
> twitter for our customers.
During the ice storm we had here last winter, the local power
company did just that. "psnh" "ice storm" "twitter" etc are all
good
Why aren't you all out getting drunk like me?? ;)
- Original Message -
From: Mark E. Mallett
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: na...@merit.edu
Sent: Sat Jul 04 13:12:14 2009
Subject: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 03:59:48PM -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
> When the loc
Roland Perry wrote:
In article <4a4f6ef5.9030...@gmail.com>, JC Dill
writes
What I'm trying to anticipate is the objection to *also* posting to
Twitter, which might be raised on the grounds that it's too
"unofficial", or "unsupported" or something like that.
Anyone who makes that argument
For DR issues (among many others, of course) think of Twitter as a paging
system of global proportions: not a lot to be said, but if you get the
message right its broadcast and amplification capabilities are unmatched.
--
***Stefan
http://twitter.com/netfortius
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:19 PM, JC
So does twitter address the mass public, or those who are Web 2.0 literate
or techies? I'm glad to see that Dell reached two million people, but how
many more people call in or visit its web page every day?
My point in another fork of this thread is that for most people, the
traditional forms of
>-Original Message-
>From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com]
>Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:51 PM
>To: 'JC Dill'
>Cc: na...@merit.edu
>Subject: RE: Using twitter as an outage notification
>
>So does twitter address the mass public,
[TLB:]
The whole point of Twitter is that it wor
- Original Message -
From: "Frank Bulk"
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: Using twitter as an outage notification
When the local power companies uses twitter, then maybe I'll consider using
twitter for our customers.
There's the temptation by some of companies to lev
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