Just an idea-what do you think? Twitter, kids and Art.
January 24th, 2009 by Julia TaylorI took my 9 year old granddaughter to her first symphony last night and remembered the gracious gestures of teachers, friends and family that brought me new experiences as a child. Some which shaped what I enjoy and value today.
It would be interesting to use Twitter and a tweet-up to provide some similar experiences to kids today. What if in any community, we could connect with each other, our kids and invite other children to do a tweet-up at a symphony, an museum, a live theater show, a walk in a nature preserve, or some experience we value and want to share.
Most arts groups will go the extra mile to provide a pre-show talk or after show talkback, discount tweet-up group tickets and then there is always the fun of pizza before the show.
I’d like to figure out a way to invite some kids (and adults) who might never get the chance to go the theater or symphony. It would be nice to forward the favor of those adults who were so generous to me growing up in a little town in rural Indiana and gave me the chance to see a different world.
This is just a Saturday morning idea and too long to tweet but I’d like to know what you think.
Here’s the review of the symphony–it was an amazing one especially for a first one for Livvy.
Doyle Launches Office of Recovery
January 23rd, 2009 by Julia Taylor
Governor Doyle just launched the Office for Recovery to quickly implement federal stimulus dollars.
Also check out what local CEOs have to say about the economic stimulus plan. http://cli.gs/vpG621
http://www.scribd.com/share/upload/8143673/25s5006jawdavxzpqscs
My Wishes for Twitter in 2009 (MKE, too)
January 4th, 2009 by Julia TaylorThe entire Wisconsin Congressional delegation joins Twitter. You can make this happen http://cli.gs/XYDjh3
The elected officials and the business community uses Twitter and social media for policy input
Governor Doyle includes the RTA recommendations in the state budget and we pass the legislation. (I get shivers just writing it!)
Sweet Water and Milwaukee becomes synonymous.
Milwaukee establishes a serious Venture Fund for social media
Social media changes the Arts, putting people in seats, direct funding from Tweeters and new ideas into production.
Milwaukee is proud of being MKE
Tweeters discover MKE
The Brewers win the World Series
The Bucks win the finals in the play offs.
Life is good.
How Twitter Changed the World (& MKE) in 2008
January 4th, 2009 by Julia Taylor
- POLITICS For the first time, social media played a key role in a major election shake-up. This is a historic cultural shift comparable to the role of television influencing the outcome of the Kennedy and Nixon debates and ultimately the election. The engagement of young voters will change the way public policy and politics play out for many years to come.
- TRANSIT We moved the ball forward on transit in MKE with the RTA report to Governor Doyle and the Legislature and real possibility of dedicated funding in the Governor’s budget to be released in February. We couldn’t have done it without the social media/political impact of Twitter including Launch Milwaukee and Johnny, we do hear the train a coming .
- Discovering TWITTER and all my peeps!
Me on Twitter!
- TWEET MOMENTS Working with everyone from Spreenkler and UrbanMilwaukee.com. Thanks to Steve Glynn and Jeramey Jannine and Dave Reid. The fun of the tweeting community moment for me was a little tweetup on transit at my house and TeeCycle Tim stopping in with my free T-Shirt I won on Twitter. The power of Twitter was the all the tweets who called, showed up and debated the transit issues with elected officials and each other.
- WATER, water everywhere..We formed a Water Council to grow the region as the hub for freshwater sciences. Talent is what will get us there and Twitter can make this cluster a wellspring for talent (I know, I know, I just can’t help myself–the puns just flow!)
- THE ARTS Connecting social media with the arts and culture community. Our recent report showed the fragile balancing act of our cultural assets trying to reach new audiences with less and less marketing resources. The 2009 February Summit can help figure out a better dynamic connect to our everyday livest than putting up electronic calendars and facebook pages (though it is a start).
- LINK UPS Starting this blog to connect the business community leadership with the social media network. I’m still figuring it out as I go but new ideas come every day.
- CHINA Learning how Twitter, the Flip and iphone pics can take a once in a lifetime adventure and share it easily with the world. My trip to China with the Bucks was amazing and my first posts were from China. The twitter feed made it real time. I’m actually standing in the photo–those guys are just REALLY tall (and nice).
Jr. Bridgeman, Kareem, Bob Lanier and me!
- BE THE FIRST TO KNOW–this was a surprise Twitter plus for me. In my job, sometimes I get a heads-up call on key community changes and sometimes I learn about the issue when the press calls for comment. I hate not being prepped and have learned to buy some time to make the contact calls and do the research and then get back with my quote of the day. The reporter would prefer a detailed and educated comment than a dithering one so it works for everyone. I’m amazed at how fast news items hits twitter. So twitter helps me with fast info real time when I need it most!
- WHO, WHAT, WHEN WHERE and WHY Editorial and information commentary by tweets–the argument about the role of social media and blogging in the world of journalism went away a long time ago based on consumer choice. I will always love my newspaper and I’ve found very informed blogs and tweets as another key component of my daily information feed. I love connecting all the above to work in a new way and meeting a whole new circle of friends that just continues to grow. Despite all the economic troubles, our hope comes from the ability to form these new networks and find the common concerns, passion, ideas and actions to create the change.
