Retweaking - and ReTweeting - World Have Your Say
| 14:05 UK time, Monday, 6 December 2010
We've just hit 15,000 Likes , which is great, and a big thanks to everyone who's been part of the conversation there.
Every day, a key part of putting the show together now involves going through our Facebook page. Often, we contact people who have made particularly interesting points there and ask them if they want to have their say on the radio programme too.
As you'll know if you're a regular, we also sometimes take the suggestions from people make there and turn them into topics for the programme. And always, our presenter will read out the best of the Facebook comment during the show.
But one thing we've not been great at doing is joining in the Facebook conversation ourselves. Too often, we've put up a debate topic and then just left you guys to it.
That's going to change. From now on, we're going to be much more involved in these conversations - and not just on Facebook, but here on the blog and on Twitter too.
In fact, we're going to be taking a fresh approach to Twitter altogether. Here on the team we've had a look at what we're doing on Twitter and decided it's not really working at the moment.
So we're going to get more engaged there too. We're going to be linking into the sites of the guests on the show and anyone who's involved in the programme, and we're going to be doing much more reTweeting of links.
These will be links to both blogs and debates relevant to what we're discussing on air, but also sites and points of view that we're not covering on air, but nevertheless find interesting or useful.
One thing I really want to stress, though, is that if we reTweet a particular link, it doesn't mean we agree with the content of it or in any way endorse it. We simply think it is an interesting point of view.
And of course you can still follow , , and on our own individual accounts, where you'll see all the things that are interesting us. Sometimes they'll be of relevance to WHYS, sometimes not...
All this is ahead of a complete revamp of what we do online, which will be coming in the new year.
While we will be keeping the WHYS blog, we will have a new website which will pull together interactive comment from across the ´óÏó´«Ã½ on global debates.
It will, for those interested, vaguely resemble the main ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website and the site of the Today programme on domestic network Radio 4 - in as much as it will be built using the same tool, the internal ´óÏó´«Ã½ system CPS.
But we're going to share with you the designs and development of the site along the way, so you can guide us in terms of what you like and what you don't. Your contributions will genuinely help shape what the site ultimately looks like.
This isn't - as the brilliant satirical - a case of asking our audience to do our work for us.
But we will appreciate your thoughts - so that we can better build a website for you to be able to have your say to the world, and hear back from the world even more than you could before.
