Grant has written the post below explaining how we can grow the membership by using Twitter. The question is how many current members have and use Twitter, and would be prepared to use it as described? Please enter the simple poll: Grant's Post. Growing the membership to the benefit of everyone is my target for the next part of the season. One of the ways to do this is dependent on how we share news. A simple change in your habits could work dividends for your own site and MetServ. Scenario Twitter: You tweet an article, it gets picked up and retweeted. There is lots of interest, but where does the reader get directed? To the far off distant news website that the article is hosted on. The interested party gets what they want, reads the article and despite the fact you led them to it, there is no connection and they are lost... So how do we improve this? The answer is relatively simple, post the article here, with a link to the original. You then have a choice. Use the tweet button at the bottom of the page to tweet the new MetServ article yourself or re-tweet the automatic twitter feed from @metserv. By re-tweeting, you will also have the benefit of picking up the #hashtags and improving the visibility of the topic (it becomes ranked more highly the more re-tweets it gets). The principles are exactly the same for facebook, google+ and any other social media platform you can find. So how does this help you and how does it help us? Well, the interested party is directed to the same article, but here. After reading it they find other weather related resources by searching the forum. All of a sudden they have lots more contacts with weather enthusiasts and weather articles. They return, they sign up, they participate, they share. The more people who share their experiences, the more we learn and the merse the opinions and content become. Of course, it doesn't have to stop at news articles. If you have a blog, a website and newsletter or an event, by "cross posting" what you have, you are reaching a wider community, expanding your site and encouraging others to join MetServ. So next time you are about to share that UK Weather story from the US website or from the local news, think first. Post here, then share it.
As of the time of this posting I have not voted. I am on Twitter (and also on Facebook) . I 'may' use a posting on Twitter from 'here' when I feel it fits with my posting 'ethos' which to an extent reflects my outlook on life, astronomy, discovery/wonder, electronics & robotics . I suppose I sit closer to the last answer ( as like a Quaker I will post when the spirit moves me ) . My Twitter/Facebook accounts are a means of communication to/from others of the same ilk . I am interested in the use of Twitter as a comms medium for a Society where I am an 'Officer' for rapid communication without the need to draft an email/doc etc. So re the question- I'm sat on the fence wearing a groove in the nether regions.
I have answered that I have no current interest in twitter and at the moment I can't forsee that I will ever join. At the moment I consider it to be "a bridge too far".
