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Keeping the Lines of Communication Open


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This, in just 138 characters, is why I’ve joined the “twitterverse.” One of my commitments to MCC has been to keep the lines of communication open, and the world of social media offers an opportunity to open even more interactive channels of discourse. So, to the monthly face-to-face Ask Anne Anythings and the weekly Wednesday Message blog, I’ve added a Twitter feed (at MCCPresident).

Twitter is essentially a logged text messaging system in which the messages are limited to 140 characters. Initially started as a purely social system, Twitter has grown into a source of informative posts for everything from news outlets to the White House. Readers can “follow” a writer’s Twitter-feed online by subscribing. If you elect to follow me, you’ll find updates about college activities and events, links to sites of interest, and information about how I fill the hours of my day as your president.

Without question, technology -- no matter how interactive -- will never replace the connection created when colleagues sit down to talk, and even as I expand the pathways of communication into social media, I hope you will still invite me to your departments and offices and meetings when you want an in-depth conversation. But, MCC is a large and complex place, and one of the goals I have for my “tweets” is to shrink the distance between my office and yours, between one corner of MCC and another. So, even though I know that I run a very serious risk of being labeled a twit, I am on Twitter . . . Let me know what you think. Share your thoughts on my President’s Wednesday Message blog.

Anne M. Kress
President
02/03/2010