Of course Marlee Matlin is number one! What fun to be among this cool group of deaf folks:
Tag: Twitter
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Twitter, My Virtual Watercooler
I don’t understand this Twitter thing,” a friend of mine said to me recently. “I can’t make sense of it all. What’s the point of all those short sentences?”
My sister-in-law asked me the same thing and so did my neice: I Don’t Get Twitter.
That’s pretty much what I thought too, when Glenda Watson Hyatt introduced me to Twitter over a year ago. I am so glad that I listened to Glenda, because Twitter has become my virtual watercooler. In my daily life, I’m often cut off from conversations around me unless I have access to an interpreter, captioning or some super lipreading. Twitter lets me peek in on conversations (Ah, so that’s what people talk about!) and gives me the opportunity to join in. I enjoy Twitter so much that I ended up here: Chicago Moms on Twitter.
Liz Strauss is hosting a writing project: 25 Words of Social Media Wisdom. I’ve decided to join in and share my thoughts on Twitter and what it means to me:
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Finding Love Songs on Twitter
At the Sparkplugging/One2OneNetwork event last week, one of the items in the swag bag was a gift certificate for iTunes. I was really excited to see this, because I was getting a little tired of the same old music playing over and over. It was time for some fresh music, but I had no clue where to start. I’ve spent money on CDs before only to find that I only liked one song on an entire CD.
I started wondering how I could get some new love songs to try out. Then it hit me:
I was tired of hearing my son’s rock and rap music blasting in the house, so I knew I wanted to go for something mellow and meaningful. So I put out this tweet:
And guess what? I have a whole bunch of love songs to try out before I buy them on iTunes:
Only one song was repeated twice as a favorite, Elton John’s Your Song. I also received several via direct message, but since they came in privately, I’m guessing they didn’t want their choices to be shared. I’m so excited that I have a list of songs to pull up lyrics to and to start learning some new music.
Thanks, Twitterville!
My favorite love song is Just the Way You Are by Billy Joel. This was the song played at our wedding.
What’s your favorite love song?
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Social Networking for Parents of Deaf/Hard of Hearing Kids
There’s a nifty little community building up over at Ning:
Parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Kids
If you’re a parent of a deaf or hard of hearing child/children, come and join us!
And if you have nothing better to do during your day, follow me on Twitter.
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The Chicagoland Tweetup
Last night, I headed over to Sanfratellos Pizza in Geneva, IL for the Chicagoland Tweetup. I was late getting there, as I was wrestling with a videophone installation with routers that wouldn’t behave.
A nice, small group was just what I needed. I was fortunate to have Katie, a recent interpreter graduate who needed interpreting hours and she interpreted for me. (Thanks, Katie!). It was nice chatting with everyone and getting to know some of them better.
Here’s who was there: Wendy Piersall from Sparkplugging, Brad Shorr from Word Sell, Inc., Barbara Rozgonyi from Wired PR Works, Jeff O’Hara from Edmodo, Derek Semmler from DerekSemmler.com (who, by the way, really is a guy!), Carolyn Shelby from CShel, and Kim, and Jerome Hughes, Jim Goodrich and two others one other I can’t remember.
It was nice chatting about blogs, marketing and social media woes (time, who has time to keep up with it all?) and of course, the topic of the evening–Twitter. The pizza was fantastic– great choice, Wendy!
Here’s the link to the rest of the photos taken:
