{"id":1425,"date":"2011-06-16T23:20:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T22:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2012-05-21T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T08:20:20","slug":"twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I\u2019ve participated in two different uses of Twitter<\/a>. First of all I was blamed by Scouter Jeff for his recent higher than normal tea consumption! My English influence reaching all the way to California apparently! This then descended into national stereotypes of me  preferring tea and more of my American friends preferring coffee (why is coffee called Joe by the way?), until Shawn<\/a> and Scouter Liberty mentioned iced tea. Now as any normal person (i.e. English!) knows, iced tea is just wrong! <\/p>\n

Anyway the point being that we all had some fun and there was some general silliness going on over long distances!<\/p>\n

Then today came another. I read in our local paper last night about one of my District\u2019s Groups trying to raise enough money to buy the old church they meet in. So today I\u2019ve put the story on the District website<\/a> and sent out a message on the District\u2019s Twitter account. I\u2019ve then retweeted the message through my Group\u2019s account and my own (these multiple personalities can get confusing!).<\/p>\n

This evening I received a tweet from another local youth group asking for the Scout Group\u2019s contact details as the youth group might be able to offer some help. I\u2019ve passed details on, and I  don\u2019t know if anything will become of the contact, but at least their message is getting ‘out into the wild\u2019 so to speak.<\/p>\n

I really do hope that the Group raise enough money to buy their old church and hopefully tweeting about it may have made some difference!<\/p>\n

One silly use of Twitter and a potentially useful one to a Group raising money. Social media can be great, if used correctly, for helping people so if you know of something worthwhile,  tweet your friends!<\/p>\n

This week I\u2019ve participated in two different uses of Twitter. First of all I was blamed by Scouter Jeff for his recent higher than normal tea consumption! My English influence reaching all the way to California apparently! This then descended into national stereotypes of me  preferring tea and more of my American friends preferring coffee … <\/p>\n

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