I always get announcements from these lsits about calls for papers, conferences, articles/books out. The posters would get a lot more mileage if they were short enough for readers to copy and tweet. There are too many that I read for me to do it myself. So for your own conferences, etc, why not start your post with a 140 character summary (Twitter limit; shorter would be better) including a bit.ly (or equiv) link so I (and others) can copy and paste into Twitter. If you make me do any work more than than copy/paste, I won't do it (and I doubt others will), so if you care about your stuff, just do it! And you and your speakers, readers, etc. will be rewarded. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________