A few weeks ago, our beloved leader Dr. V took our whole Tech 637 class at Purdue and threw us in the deep end of the internet. She tied Twitter to our left hand and WordPress to our right. As we began to collectively drown in the fullness of socialized media, she slapped a Hootsuite snorkel in our mouths and told us we could use that to breathe.
Trusting our benevolent pedagogue, I started using my new life-sustaining apparatus, and at first it was new and awkward.
I even wrote about it and (much to her chagrin) I called it Hootsuite …. or should I say “HoosGotADHD”. The reason was because at first everything was so hectic and foreign, and I didn’t even know where to look or how to use it. I also mentioned in this blog post that someday I might think this was the best thing since sliced bacon (paraphrasing).
So now, several weeks in, I need to re-address this issue … to both come clean and also recant.
Now that I’ve been using this for several weeks I must say… I not only like the program, but I can say that I view it as a necessary tool to tame and use Twitter (and other social media) effectively. I have several active feeds that I have developed, and they help me keep track of my class, my computer-mediated communication scholars, my humor scholars, and even a fun one #addawordruinamovie.
It still has some bugs, and I haven’t quite got everything down pat, but as of now … I’m a convert. I no longer am being forced to drink from the firehose … but now I can sip from an assortment of pleasant springs.
I know I’m mixing all sorts of metaphors throughout this post … sorry about that. Sometimes I just feel like mixing it up. 😉
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Quite dramatic! Glad you find Hootsuite useful. Did you know that garden hose and fire hose are phrases Twitter uses to refer to tapping into their API?
I agree that Twitter is impossible to understand by itself. I find it interesting that it is such a good communication platform but you have to use 3rd party tools to fully utilize it.
I have had a similar experience! Thank you for coming clean and allowing us all to feel normal!