Comments on: Listservs vs Twitter: Are You Ready to Make the Step into a Brief New World? http://www.managemypractice.com/listservs-vs-twitter-are-you-ready-to-make-the-step-into-a-brief-new-world/ Technology, Information & Resources for Medical Practice Management Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mary Pat Whaley http://www.managemypractice.com/listservs-vs-twitter-are-you-ready-to-make-the-step-into-a-brief-new-world/comment-page-1/#comment-669 Mary Pat Whaley Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:32:12 +0000 http://www.managemypractice.com/?p=1355#comment-669 Hi Anne Marie, Thanks for the link to the Clay Shirky video. What he says does resonate. As an early adopter and tech geek, I tend to forget that not everyone is as avid a fan of shiny new things as I am. Early adopters do pay a price, just as late adopters do. You are right about what can be lost without listservs; maybe the future is a hybrid that allows the pipe to be as open or closed as each user chooses! Mary Pat Hi Anne Marie,

Thanks for the link to the Clay Shirky video. What he says does resonate. As an early adopter and tech geek, I tend to forget that not everyone is as avid a fan of shiny new things as I am. Early adopters do pay a price, just as late adopters do.

You are right about what can be lost without listservs; maybe the future is a hybrid that allows the pipe to be as open or closed as each user chooses!

Mary Pat

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]]> By: Anne Marie Cunningham http://www.managemypractice.com/listservs-vs-twitter-are-you-ready-to-make-the-step-into-a-brief-new-world/comment-page-1/#comment-666 Anne Marie Cunningham Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:17:57 +0000 http://www.managemypractice.com/?p=1355#comment-666 Hello This is a great question. The advantage of listserves is that they are established and people are familiar. I like Clay Shirky's point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I6Hc2LQMoM I would suggest that people would have to be very careful before deciding to ditch an existing listserve to move to twitter. Twitter is an ongoing conversation. You may miss important things unless you set up lots of searched for the terms you are interested in and check them, as you do email when you first log-in. A listserve gets the messages that are most likely to be relative to you to your inbox. Anne Marie Hello
This is a great question. The advantage of listserves is that they are established and people are familiar.
I like Clay Shirky’s point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I6Hc2LQMoM

I would suggest that people would have to be very careful before deciding to ditch an existing listserve to move to twitter.

Twitter is an ongoing conversation. You may miss important things unless you set up lots of searched for the terms you are interested in and check them, as you do email when you first log-in.

A listserve gets the messages that are most likely to be relative to you to your inbox.

Anne Marie

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