Outreach Technology

In case you fine folks missed it, you have got to check out NC State’s new twitter site, http://twitter.ncsu.edu.  It is a joint project between our group and Web Communications that was launched on September 8th, and we now have over 60 organizations tweeting on campus and you can find them all here.

While everyone working on the project thought it was really cool, I think we were all pleasantly surprised by the awesome reaction that we have gotten from other folks in the Higher Education community.  The day after we launched the site, the twitterverse was buzzing about the site.  Here are just a few tweets that I found particularly encouraging.

skirubbi: Green with envy. Loving NCSU’s Twitter page: http://twitter.ncsu.edu/

shayfrendt: This school obviously understands the meaning of online presence: RT @skirubbi: Loving NCSU’s Twitter page: http://twitter.ncsu.edu/

matthew_darby: I really like NC State’s new Twitter mashup http://twitter.ncsu.edu/. Very effective to group their official tweets.

Not only did we get love from the twitterverse, this past week Inigral (@inigral) did a blog post about us being “ahead of the game” when it comes to twitter.

On top of the outstanding utility, it’s a beautiful page – simple in its design and very user-friendly. This is a great example of using social media smartly.  Make it simple, useful, organic, and make it easy for your authors and your audience to keep up.

Thanks guys!  (see I told you I would blog about you blogging about us)

Given the success of the site, and the fact twitter is all about sharing, we figured that we should do some sharing too.  That is why we are releasing the code that runs the NC State twitter site to anyone for free.  Head on over to http://twitter.ncsu.edu/download.php to download the code and start your own organization’s twitter site.  And most importantly, tell us about it!  We love a good story…

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