New chronversation - 11th January 9pm GMT

[Jo Zebedee]

The next Twitter panel is on. Whoo hoo! It's on 11th January, on Twitter at 9pm GMT, discussing writing groups: what makes a good one; how they can assist your writing; what to put in place to ensure they meet needs; virtual and face-to-face protocols and any other devilishly hard questions you can think of.

The panellists, with full bios etc to come nearer the time, are:

Teresa Edgerton
Harebrain
Millymollymo
Juliana
Hex - who can dish the dirt on me (shivering)

More details nearer the time, but stick it in the diary, if you can!

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Should be useful - I've found myself chairperson/president of our local one. And I have no idea what I am doing.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Just a reminder this is on tonight at nine! It should be busy, it's been promoted on Absolute Write, a top agent has retweeted about it, we've had lots of likes on the Facebook. So, see you all then!

 

[Hex]

There'll be lots of dirt dished about springs. Honest.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

There'll be lots of dirt dished about springs. Honest.

Collectively, you have enough to sink me...

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

OK. Total beginner's question here: how do I get involved in this? Need a words-of-one-syllable idiot's guide please....

 

[AnyaKimlin]

I'll be there - the rest of committee are acting like Twitter is the devil so we'll see.

 

[Hex]

OK. Total beginner's question here: how do I get involved in this? Need a words-of-one-syllable idiot's guide please....

Join Twitter.

Up at the top right there's a search box. Type #sffchrons into it, and you should see the discussion.

At the top centre there's a box saying "What's happening?" -- write your tweet in that (don't forget to add #sffchrons to your tweet), and click "tweet" and we'll see what you're saying.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Perfect, thank you. I am on twitter (@Cavetraveller) but rarely use it and have never taken part in a discussion.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

TweetDeck is useful to follow a fast moving discussion.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

TweetDeck is useful to follow a fast moving discussion.

What is TweetDeck lol?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

It's a website - you type in what you're following and it comes up and you can follow multiple stuff.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

my daughter is now helping me work it out

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

At the top centre there's a box saying "What's happening?" -- write your tweet in that (don't forget to add #sffchrons to your tweet), and click "tweet" and we'll see what you're saying.

I do not see this box.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I do not see this box.

It will depend which app you're on - the squaere box with the pen should do the same thing

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

But it doesn't say "what's happening" so I am not sure how to keep track when things start to move fast. Also, I tried TweetDeck and there was nowhere to click to register a new account, and where it said to log in with my Twitter account it didn't like my password. Which, as Gary or Sarah set up my account when they made my surprise blog, I possibly don't know if it is not the same one as the one for the blog.

I'm not whining, just wanting to warn you all that I might be slow with my answers and way behind the rest of you. So if I seem to disappear from the discussion fear not. I'll just be trying to catch up.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Up until now I've just put the #sffchrons into the search option and followed the hashtag itself, which should be fine, I think, for you. It's just that I'm following five busy conversations this time that I've went all high tech.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

OK, well, I'll do my best. I used to be pretty hopeless in multi-person conversations in chat rooms because I was so slow.

 

[HareBrain]

I've got two browser windows on-screen (after much mucking about), one with the hashtag and one with my own account. Time will tell if this is any help ...

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I see the "what's happening" window when I use Firefox. The problem there is that I am somewhere else on Firefox on my computer. I've switched to my husband's computer but again there is trouble with my password. They say they will email me and allow me to set a new password, but so far no email.