Twitterpated

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Added: Tue. Aug 31, 2010 4:22pm
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I never thought I'd write these words but...c'mon, follow me on Twitter!  http://twitter.com/runswstilettos

I just spent the weekend at the posh and historic and lovely Union League Club in Chicago where the National Federation of Press Women held their annual conference.  I was there as a speaker, and as a conference "first-timer," and to have a great time networking and learning.

I started off by attending a workshop on social media and "how to use Twitter."  Up at the front of the room was a gal about my age, cheerfully explaining with the precision of a brain surgeon how to navigate the ins and outs of "tweets" and "retweeting" and...lord knows what else.  As a basic matter, I'm low tech.  So low tech I'm nearly prehistoric.  Yes, I can use a digital camera.  And my kids are comically astounded that I can send a text message from my phone.  But that's about the outer limits. 

I left the session figuring that I've got only so much room on my mental hard drive, and twittering was just something I could easily live without.  My mental image of the typical person "twittering" is something like Ashton Kucher standing somewhere in a fabulous location in a commercial, working the keyboard on a phone that's "smarter" than I am, and smiling those Hollywood whites all the while as excitement and vivid color flashes on all sides.

The next morning, though, I sat through another workshop, this one conducted by two lovely young women from the Chicago tourism branch, and whose age probably combined to form my own.  And they were so...ENTHUSIASTIC...about the possibilities, that I started feeling my balkiness recede. 

Oh...FINE!!!  And so I embark, on the theory that it won't kill me to pound out 140 characters of something once a day while I'm sitting at my home computer that's tethered to the wall with an old fashioned electrical cord and a DSL line.

And if I can't find 140 characters in which to write something that I'd like to read--or something I've found that I'd like to point you toward--I'll just wait 'til the next day!!!

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