CultureWatch has been blogging for more than a couple of years with some of the news, trends and research on marriage and family in the context of the culture. Typically, though, what you see in the Culture Watch blog is only a small portion of the items we run across as we keep tabs on the culture.
Enter Twitter, the new social media mini-blogging application that allows you to connect with friends, family and others of similar interests, with questions, ideas and updates—as long as you keep your post under 140 characters. In the past few months, we have been experimenting with how to use this new tool to better deliver good content to more people. A couple of the advantages we've seen with Twitter is that when we find an interesting news item or piece of research, we can simply post the link via Twitter, without having to spend a lot of time crafting commentary. We also are able to re-tweet (forward information) from other Twitter users who are following the same kinds of things we are. And finally, we're able to follow others who are like-minded as well as have them follow us.
If you're already part of the Twittersphere, you can follow us @FL_CultureWatch. If you haven't started tweeting yet, check it out, if for no other reason than to get more timely updates on marriage and family in the culture, and to join the exchange of ideas that Twitter makes possible. Look forward to seeing you on Twitter.
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