Hi, everybody!
It's Sunday afternoon -- one of the most stunningly beautifully perfectly wonderfully sunny-skies Sunday afternoons in the history of Columbia, Missouri.
And you're probably out in it, soaking up the sunshine. I hope so.
If you're reading this, though, you've decided to settle down at your computer (homework? emails home? Skyping that friend who is studying abroad?), and you have a minute.
Maybe two.
And I am here to ask you to do me a favor -- to do US a favor (and yes, I sent you an email about this on Friday, too.....)
Please (please) take 2 minutes and sign up for our new Twitter community. I promise I won't pester you with trivia about what I'm doing now....but I would love to be able to get in touch quickly and easily when there's something important or cool going on that I really think you'd like to know about. (And besides, if it's a pain, you can always quit....no worries.)
A new study says that teens don't Twitter: they think it's lame. I understand that - I really do -- because too many people spend too much time tweeting information that can only be described as lame.
But there are good reasons to use Twitter, too: reasons like keeping in touch with you all when we need to let you know about an event, or an announcement, or an opportunity.
So I'm going to ask you one more time:
Here's how you do it if you don't already have a Twitter account (and if you already have one, well, you know this already....):
1. Log on to www.twitter.com. and click on "Sign up now."
2. Fill out the information: your name, your username, your password (don't check the "inside scoop" box unless you love spam).
3. Hit "Create my account."
4. Twitter will take you through a series of steps, asking you whether there are people in your mail accounts you want to follow, asking if you want to follow various celebrities.
5. It will then create a page for you that includes all your "follows."
6. In the right column, at the bottom, it will say "Following add." Click on 'add.'
7. Click on "find on Twitter."
8. Type in "TweetStephens."
9. You'll get a very weird, little picture of me, next to a button that says "follow."
10. Hit that "follow" button, and VOILA! You're on!
Then you can tell us what you're doing now, and we can tell you everything you would really want to know about what's happening on campus.
I hope you had a great (and safe) weekend!
Dianne
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