Folks,



I have a student on an online course at the moment. She lives in Syria... We
use Elluminate for our synch sessions and she's been having trouble with it
- turns out the US won't allow Syria access to Java, for some reason which
escapes a naive person like me. Now ordinarily I would scratch around for a
solution, spend some time on Google, etc. I have been known to spend a few
hours on a problem like that... What I did yesterday was put a message on
Twitter to my community (I was fairly sure nobody from Syria was following
me) and asked my community to 'retweet' it to theirs. They duly did. Within
five minutes a software in Syria got in touch with his email address and
told me to mail him. I did, he responded with a very easy and logical
solution which I then implemented.



Only one story, sure - but a neat example of where the immediacy and
long-reaching tentacles of Twitter really do come in handy, and one where
being 'over-connected' was vital...



Gavin







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