My Tallahassee Twitter Tip of the Day

Micro-blogging has the potential of being the most commonly way of expressing oneself online. Why? Because you have a limited amount of space to present your message, and people prefer to read short messages and not full-length blogs. The creator of a mini-blog, also has more time to read others’, since less time goes into writing sentence after sentence and editing the work to get it right.

Twitter, which is the most popular micro-blogging platform, and other micro-blogging sites, allow for up to 140 characters. That is not a lot of space, so the writer if forced to work his/her message in a way that it presents what the writer wants presented. It tones and tunes writing skills. For that reason, micro-blogging helps to make us all better writers. The topics that can be written on are countless it seems. Any and everything is presented and discussed through micro-blogging. What makes micro-blogging even better, is that what is presented can also be commented on, and there can be a chain of conversations around an original post.

Have fun twittering and micro-blogging in general. Get your message out, and look forward to comments, and networking enrichment.

Kenneth in Tallahassee.

My Twitter screen name is, KenFach. Care to tweetup with me?

Twitter tip of the day

Micro-blogging is a technological way of getting the word out about a cause, a movement, a belief, a sport event, a campaign to right some injustice, or to gather members for a political, social, or community event.  Too me, micro-blogging is technology’s finest contribution in the age of abundant software. The examples of how micro-blogging can be used are  many, and I will not list them here. Just look around where you live, and I am sure you can find causes that are reaching out to muster community involvement. There are food drives, car washes, membership drives, sign holding, carnivals, bake sales, mailing campaigns, and so much more going on with the idea of raising money, and membership to support something useful (at least to the members of the organization).

Twitter, Plurk, Identi.ca,  and other online sites, are micro-blogging platforms that allow for short messages that can be on any topic. The field is endless. A message on behalf of an organization, can find strong support online, and micro-blogging is just the means to getting this message out. People may not have the time to read or care to read a typical sized blog, but may be more interested to read a short mini-blog, or micro-blog, which has no more than 140 characters, usually.

I go onto Twitter, and I find all kinds of causes manifested among the many, many tweets. I am sure new members and new money for the many causes and organizations around the world are coming from Twitter, and other online sites. Micro-blogging is like dropping a message from the beak of a pelican. Many may go by and ignore the message on the ground, but some may come by, read it, put it back down, and others come by and follow suit again. It is about numbers, and micro-blogging reaches a vast amount of readers. Everyone has a message, if only we had pelicans who could drop our messages all over the earth. Well, we do with Twitter, and the other micro-blogging sites.

Kenneth, The Twitter man in Tallahassee, Florida
http://Twitter.com/KenFach.  See you on Twitter!!!

The Adventures of a Tallahassee boy

My son brought home a new book to read: Treasure Island. I am so proud of his interest in reading, as his dad (me) grew up loving the written word, the carefully crafted, manifested word. Now, a new book, a classic, is added to my son’s repertoir of reading experiences. I am a pleased, reading dad.

As is our practice, I read with my son, so that he sees that reading can be a group experience, or a sharing experience. I sit with him and read to him, and he reads to me, and that way, I am not only making sure he is doing the reading, but also understanding it. We both use the dictionary to look up unusual, or uncommon words as language is always at a moment of change, and the English in Treasure Island’s day is vastly different from the English of today.  The adventure of not only the content itself, but of looking up interesting words makes the reading experience fun, and worthwhile.

I am also pleased that the public school system continues to recognize the classics as good, and important reading for the children. We see and hear so much of contemporary ideas and concepts, but are alienated from prior times, and their cultures, language, and ideas. Treasure Island was one of my favorites as a child, as I am sure it will be my son’s favorite through the progress of his life experiences as well. 

Maybe we need to start community read-ins of the old classics, the classic literature that never dies, but is always there, waiting for our hungry minds to eat up the words, take in the adventures, open up the tightly closed imagination, and swim, fly, hike, ride, to interesting lands far away in thought.

Much of my reading of the classic literature was in Spanish, as I studied  and earned my master’s in Spanish language and literature. I studied the likes of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Octavio Paz, and much, much more. Amidst my days in the business world, I often crave for the student days in which I was able to devote 80 percent of my time to reading wonderful literature, analysing the movement of words, learning the semantics and syntac of earlier period literature. 

To all you classical readers out there, have a great day. Enjoy your reading. I know I will. My son is at school, and I can’t put down his copy of Treasure Island.

Twitter tip of the day

Using any micro-blogging platform, whether it is Twitter, Identi.ca, Jaiku, Plurk or other, why not let the world know something about where you are at the moment. It is as if the question can be, not, “What are you doing now?” but rather, “Where are you now?” Tell about the restaurant you are eating in, the store in which you are looking at clothes, a movie you are watching, a park you are playing in, view you are admiring, a town you are visiting, an old house you are walking through. Micro-blogging is good for getting to the point on something, as I always say. We can say something quick, and interesting, and then, move on to something else. As you post about a place, you never know, you may find that someone else has been there, and shares the same sentiments or has another comment to make about that particular place. That is the fun of micro-blogging, when people come together with something in common to reflect on, and travel seems to be just the subject that we all can relate to.

Twitter is my favorite micro-blogging tool. I write about something I feel is useful to others, following the Golden Rule, and receiving notices in my inbox that someone has decided to follow my posts. The follow button is on of my favorite button on Twitter. We can build up quite a following that way.

Have fun micro-blogging, and be sure to share something special with all of us.

Kenneth in Tallahassee

twitter.com/kenfach

A day that made it happened

This should be an important day for people living, moving, and having their being in the United States of America. Why? Today is Constitution Day. We recognize the wisdem of the Constitution’s creators in giving us a document that secures liberty, limites federal governmental powers, limits certain state powers, and defines and checks the three branches of federal government: Legislative, Judicial, Executive. 

Without the Constitution, the United States would have been a vastly different country, in which liberty would not have been as secure, as protected, and there may not have been any restraints on government. The creators knew that government left by itself, is corrupt, evil, and unjust. However, with limitations imposed on government, all benefit, the people benefit, and experience greater freedom. 

I rejoice in the manifested wisdom of America’s founders, the creators of the one document that made the United States of America, a symbol of hope, security, liberty, economic success, spiritual freedom, for all. Proof of this: countless numbers of people from every part of the globe came and continue to come to the United States of America to experience the liberties that we Americans have experienced through our unique history. We were the first modern nation to have a written constitution. All other nations either attempted to copy our creators’ wisdom, or come up with one themselves, in most cases, unsuccessfully. 

Today, I get out my constitution, which I have read on many occasion, and again, review the incredible mix of truth, wisdom, and harmony expressed therein. I say harmony, because the dcoument established a governmental system, with harmonious processes. Compared to other nations, more harmony has been the conclusion of processes under this constitution of the United States, even with difficult debates, and disagreements. It has proven to be a successful accomplishment, and for this, I owe gratitude the thinkers behind the Constitution. It is wisdom, that guided the Constitution’s creators. The Bible says, “with all thy getting, get wisdom.” The Constitution is an expression of devout, divinely guided wisdom. The constitution, framed the nation behind it, and made it extremely successful economically, socially, morally, structurally, and allowed for and open market of inventiveness and innovation, the hallmarks of American society.

More Tallahassee Real Estate Tweets

More Tallahassee Real Estate Tweets from Kenneth Fach:

 

	Tallahassee needs to see a great reduction in homes for sale so that the market will become normal again. Buyers can find good deals now.about 20 hours ago from web
	Solution to Tallahassee housing market: Discretionary buyers move back into the market and start buying homes. about 20 hours ago from web
	Solution to Tallahassee housing market: Builders reduce the amount of new homes they are building. about 20 hours ago from web
	Solution to Tallahassee housing market: Non-serious Sellers remove their homes from the market. about 20 hours ago from web

This thing called Twitter

Twitter is more than a cool social networking application. Twitter is about sharing, meeting, connecting, networking, brainstorming, all in less than 141 characters. 140 characters is the maximum amount of space you usually have for twittering. You can always post more tweets. It is a communication lifestyle. These are short, micro-blogs, that are quickly prepared, on the spot, and posted for the general public to view, or a private group. Each twitterer makes that decision. Twitter asks the simple question, “What are you doing now?” The answers are formed in innumerable ways.  You can tweet from your phone anywhere you have service, or from your laptop or PC. 

If you can’t say what you want to say in 140 characters, than it probably is not worth saying, or you need to work on reducing fluff. Twitter gives us all the opportunity to make our point, briefly, and just that: to the point. As a result of this structure, the blogger is compelled  to perfect his writing skills. 

I use Twitter to get information to the consumers, network with other professionals in my field of labor, and other professionals, to express thoughts that come to me, to provide useful tips and ideas that I think could benefit others, and to make new friends.

Twitter has a powerful search engion to help us look up people we may want to connect with, and follow. We use this search tool to find groups, companies, associations, to see who the members are, and then, we can connect with who we want to. This connecting, in Twitter terms, is called “following.” When you click the follow button, beside someone’s profile, you have just added a new contact to your ever growing network. That individual in turn, has the option of following you. Now, you two can share. You can even see who someone is following, read profiles, and click the follow button to follow someone that interest you, socially, or professionally. 

The key to success with Twitter, is to make your brief points, comments, suggestions, and ideas, interesing, fun, a pleasure to read, unique, and useful to the Twitterverse. You may get responses back to your comments, either directly, or for all to read as a post. You will even gain followers. This is good for most businesses. Followers can become customers.

Sometimes Twitterers ask questions, tell micro-stories, share recipes, discuss gardening, politics, school assignments, community events, personal recollections. Twitter is for everyone, but to be successful with Twitter, you need to feed your blog. Keep tweeting, and don’t stop. Let Twitterverse know you are out there. It really is fun, because Twitterers are fun and interesting people, that know how to use a micro-blogging platform to fit their needs in life. It is a lifestyle using a micro-blogging tool. 

I am kenfach on Twitter. Follow me. Hope to follow you.

http://twitter.com/kenfach  

Happy tweeting!!!!!

The Winners at Florida State University

We were busy, and at it working a concession stand at the Florida State University Football game in Tallahassee, Florida. All for the Boy Scouts of Troop 115. Money made goes to help the scouts in their scouting trips, and adventures.

It was a winning night. Rain storm delayed the game, and lightning stopped the game. We actually did not leave the stadium until 11:30. We had been on our feet since 2:30. I worked the pretzels, stuffed the dogs in the wrappers, wrapped the hamburgers, prepared nachos, and helped to clean up. The fun part is win the rush of fans come over hungry for what they want to buy. Florida State defeated its North Carolina opponent, 69 to 0. Definitely a case of winners versus losers. I am proud to be a Tallahassee resident, and former graduate student of Florida State University. We are a winning community, indeed, in so many ways, not just in athletics. The people here are winners, and the boy scouts are winners. I know. I am the father of a scout. 

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This was before the FSU game. We had to get everything ready in the concession stand a couple hours before game began, at 4:00. Storm caused big time delay however. 

Let the Florida State Seminoles do their thing, and show North Carolina, and the world, that Florida State University owns football. One reason to visit Tallahassee, Florida, among many other reasons, discussed in my other blog posts about Tallahassee, and Lifestyles. 

Here we are, towards the end of the game, and look at the fans. Really, the fans make the game, the readers make the book, the audience makes the show, the customers, make the business, the scouts make the troop. Winners we all are.