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What A Terrific Crew

I want to thank everyone who took the time to participate in the very thoughtful discussion on yesterday's post, Course Correction. What a wonderful crew we have here. I read each and every one of your comments and think I can draw some general conclusions.

Calm Seas Ahead

In broad terms, I believe we are doing almost everything right. The meme seems to work well for most everyone who commented. The only real concern is that some of us (me being one of the prime examples) may have been going overboard with the tweets and retweets. I think we need only apply a slight course correction to achieve clear sailing.

So here's the plan, or at least how I intend to proceed. You are all free to follow suit or not, depending on whether you think it will work well for you. That is, I will simply carry on as before, with the exception of cutting way back on tweets and retweets.

This Friday I plan to tweet my own story no more than three times on Friday. One of those tweets will certainly be around Noon, Eastern Time, on the theory that many people in the Eastern Time Zone (US) will be web surfing at their computers during lunch. The other two times will be as opportunity affords, probably just before work, and when I get home. I won't do any straight retweets. Not a one. I will continue to post tweets for those who do not have access to Twitter. Those usually come after work. I'll try to do that at least twice (since the morning crowd will already be history).

If I am able to read a story I like I will post an original review tweet, but my time is limited and I'm a slow reader. I expect my #fridayflash tweets to drop from around seventy or eighty to around ten or twelve. I will post The #fridayflash Report on Saturday, as usual. Then, over the course of the week I will periodically read some of the stories and will post original review tweets for the ones I really like. If everyone does something similar I think we will have a much less frantic #fridayflash, and potentially a much more effective one.

Stand By, Mates

Many other issues were brought up in the discussion yesterday. There were many valid points and suggestions made. They do need to be addressed, but for now I think we can table them for later. The big issue that needed to be addressed was nipping the overtweeting issue in the bud. We can hash these other things out at our leisure.

More Scuttlebutt

Stand by for more exciting news tomorrow. There is a #fridayflash contest in the works. Yes, I'm a big tease and will say no more until tomorrow's post.

OK, I lied. Here's a little more... It is designed to help bring you more readers.

Carry on.
~jon
Photo, Sunrise At Sea from the National Media Museum via Flickr Creative Commons

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