DiscNW Twitter Policy
DiscNW has a Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/discnw. This policy document will describe the purpose of the account and how it works.
Purpose
The main purpose of the twitter account is to augment the hotline and get timely and important announcements get to as many people as possible. We currently use the hotline to communicate timely and important information about events. It would be helpful for our players to receive text messages via twitter with game day updates.
Twitter use is not intended to replace the DiscNW hotline. In fact, the hotline will continue to be the definitive place to receive information. We will make every attempt to tweet messages that are made on the hotline, but this may not always be possible.
We will limit the number of messages intentionally to make sure we are only communicating timely and important information to our “followers”.
If Twitter proves to be an effective means of communicating, we may consider creating topic specific Twitter feeds such as: @discnw-chatter for more frequent, less important messages, @discnw-youth for youth related information [Enable javascript to see email] for field and community organizing related activities.
Use
Tweets are delivered a number of ways but we expect most of our followers to use text message due to the timely nature of our tweets.
Tweets [Enable javascript to see email] are displayed in the discnw.org side-bar. Staff and volunteers with the right permissions (see below) can post and delete tweets right from the side-bar.
Initially, permission to post messages has been granted to DiscNW staff, League Coordinators, and to the WebTeam group. Additional permissions can be granted by the Executive Director.