What should we tweet?

Thanks to everyone* who responded in comments, via twitter and on FriendFeed to my call for suggestions on how we should use our twitter account, @beagleproject.

Because this will be of general interest to tweeps and organisations, here's a condensed and reorganised presentation of the feedback, which was mostly in response to the first question,

"Why do you follow organisations on twitter? What sorts of tweets do you want from organisations as opposed to individuals?"

Want:

• project news, updates, events, announcements (e.g., tidbits of news that aren't worth writing a whole blog post about, but are still interesting)
• commentary
• info about the project
• interesting links, especially links related to the organization's mission
• live reporting from a relevant happening
• the collective voice of the organization, which is distinct from and more consistent/definable than, the voices of the individuals within the organization (multiple voices okay)
  
• consistent focus on the organization (and its interests/values)
• new blog post alerts
• links to project publications (with DOIs where applicable)
  

Do not want:

• redundancy
  
• "marketing" (which some felt was an unavoidable outcome of tweeting as an organisation)
  
• redundancy

Thanks again everyone, we shall endeavour to serve you better in the future on @beagleproject.

*Eric, Miriam, Edward, @neilfws, @meryn, @tidecats, Richard Akerman, Deepak, Matthew Todd & Mr. Gunn