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Hey All,
I had a look but couldn't find anything on this so I'll ask it,
Why don't we put the webcams on twitter and have people posting when and what animals are on the webcams, so we can see more animals eg. Herd of Elephant, Satara Waterhole, 17:30pm 15th March - AND then everyone gets this and has a look at them . I know that other webcams are doing this.
I don't know much about twitter but maybe someone else can advise.

Just as an example look at what AFRICAM are doing: http://twitter.com/africam

Just an Idea,
JJ

Hi JJ ,

I don't know much about twitter either.
Danie and Themba will be able to advise us, I'm sure.

Hi JJ,

That sounds like a good idea - mainly because it might give me a reason to actually persist with Twitter!'

I'm on it, but I'm having a hard time convincing myself it's worthwhile. It's probably a good system for relaying quick, short messages, to the cam notifications might be worth a try.

cheers

Tony

Using this one application and if this happens on Twiiter we could have something like this(on your desktop, so you can see what animals are there whilst you are 'working':


But imagine it asSANParks Webcam sightings

JJ

I have referred this for advice, JJ

Thanks MATTHYS

This is definitely a good idea, I will share this with the whole team here in the office and get their views.

Uh, oh - I see a whole new learning curve coming up!!

Any updates anyone?

Hi JustJuice,

Thanx for this cool idea ...we are currently using Twitter and FaceBook to promote the Kudu Awards and voting for Table Mountain in the New7 Wonders of Nature Campaign...so this will be great...

I have already started a conversation about sightings...check it out:
http://twitter.com/SANParks/

And what is also great is that you can get RSS Feeds of the updates to the conversation AND you can continue your conversations on Twitter via Facebook

Mel

Just realised that YOU CAN INDEED send pics via Twitter through Twitpic...

Thanks, Melanie !
I am going to try doing it !

That's great S!

It is fun., but we still need to encourage more people to contribute and particpate in the conversation.

M

I just registered, Mel ....tried a lot of user names and eventually succeeded with my late dog's name .
Thanks for telling us about it !

Oh S, this is great ..I'm so glad..