DAFNE news on Twitter ..and now Google Plus!

Hi all, For sometime now I have been interested in following a DAFNE Twitter account or, before I quit Facebook, joining a DAFNE group. Obviously, this great site stands in for the FB side, so what are our thoughts on a Twitter feed with the latest news about DAFNE and the research behind it? I know this site gets news and I think a stream would not only promote DAFNE but this very website! I think this would work well if news can be gathered related to DAFNE - including success stories (okay'd by the diabetic of course)! What do we think?

I like that idea actually, well done..........

Im now wondering if multiple people can post to a main feed account... Shall have to have a look next time Im on a PC. Im happy to be a news scout or something if we think its a good idea...

It does seem that we are looking at one feed that only one person can access - multiple people accessing one twitter account appears to be something third parties are looking at offering (for free at the moment).

I'm looking around for ideas for the first tweets... if we do set one up, do we want this site to be associated with it - eg, it's website to be this site?

Edit; How interesting - the DAFNE main site has a "latest news" section.

Great idea JWo - Twitter is a good place to put 'Latest News' - I'm not sure how you'd get the information to feed into it though - I'd be happy for you to take a feed from the news we have here on the site, however it is quite sporadic. With regard to the DAFNE Site, again I'm not sure how frequently news occurs on that one. It would be great if we could get each individual DAFNE Centre tweeting to the same account, though as you mentioned it's usually only one user logging into an account, and the DAFNE Centre HCP's may not have the time to tweet.

I guess an open question is - what would people like to see on such a feed?

Personally, I hoped to see general news articles relating to DAFNE, success stories from DAFNE diabetics... that sort of thing. People's thoughts of "what is DAFNE?" and the like as well - to emphasize on how worthwhile it is.

Knowing what restrictions are exercised here when it comes to DAFNE guidelines, I don't think it'll be a suitable medium for overall advice giving. It's too risky for that side of things - so a more general news feed seemed the better idea. If anyone does ask for advice, I think we could however direct them to this forum or advise they speak to their DAFNE team possibly.

I know we'd also be able to take advantage of re-tweeting from other diabetic streams as well - such as @DiabetesUK for example. Obviously, the maintainer would need to check the article before re-tweeting to make sure it's not misleading. Hopefully this would then lead to more interest being developed and it slowly maintaining itself... perhaps.

Thanks for posting your thoughts everyone. Half tempted to just give it a go and see what happens (though what username to use? Just "DAFNE" to keep it short?)!

Edit: Nope, DAFNE is taken. DAFNEnews?

Okay, the ball is rolling.... http://twitter.com/#!/dafneonline.

Let me know if there's any problems!

Good work JWo, I'm already following (@simfish85) - I'll see whether we can embed the feed on the site.

Wow, really? Cool!

Yay! I will maintain it the best I can! ^__^

Twitter feed is now on the (slightly redesigned) homepage!