North Carolina Cooperative Extension has joined the Twitterverse!

Wikipedia describes Twitter as "a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers."

Most Twitter users are individuals who exchange a mix of personal and work related information with their followers. However, many organizations are also using Twitter as new way to inform and listen to their audiences. North Carolina Cooperative Extension has begun using Twitter in this manner, with the user id, 'NCCE_news.'

We encourage fellow Twitter users to follow NCCE_news. We have added a follow link to the top of our public web site pages to help spread the word about NCCE's new Twitter presence.

If you use Twitter and follow NCCE_news, you may see some of your information being retweeted. We hope you will do the same. This is a powerful way we can use Twitter to expand our informational reach. Whether you use Twitter or not, if you have information you would like NCCE_news to share, please send updates to Dee Shore (dee_shore@ncsu.edu) in Communication Services.

If you would like to learn more about Twitter and why you might want to use it, Extension Information Technology and the Area Information Management Agents have several Elluminate Live! Twitter classes scheduled for extension faculty and staff in August. Visit the Online Training page in the NCCE Intranet for a complete listing of upcoming web-based offerings.

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