One day last week during the NECC conference, I was standing at the Ask Me table near the Bloggers’ Cafe, talking with a couple of colleagues from our overly-large school district.
Among other things, I was trying to explain Twitter to them (something I seem to be doing more and more of lately).
At one point a woman brought over a cellular wireless card that someone had left on one of the couches in the Cafe.
And under normal circumstances it would have gone to the conference lost and found, to sit in a box waiting for someone to figure out exactly where that office was in the huge convention center.
But… expensive wireless service, lounge area dedicated to bloggers… I figured the owner must be a Twitterer. So, I tossed a 140 character notice into the mix.
They may not follow me but, considering the people who hang out in that area of the hall, the number of degrees of separation between me and them was probably far less than six.
Anyway, it only took a few hours to get the card back to it’s owner.
Ok, I admit, as an example of the power of Twitter, that story doesn’t rise even close to the same level as the way the system is being used by the election protesters in Iran.
But it’s a nice little illustration of how this particular tool helps connect the members of one particular network in ways that were impossible even a few years ago.
