You will have noticed that over this past weekend a Twitter stream has been incorporated into the Emerge site. This is a trial, but I quite like it.
We took a decision to try this out because a lot of U&I-related conversation was taking place on Twitter. Also, one of the U&I funded projects: M3 developed a set of "Twitter blocks" for incorporation into other sites (VLEs, SNs, SecondLife, etc): consuming our own canine comestables 
So, do you like this view into another conversation stream? Is it too much "noise", or a useful dimension?
Are there other features you would like? Do I hear threaded audio commentary?
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There is a lot of discussion about this issue, but it is not appearing here.
For me:
The stream serves to open a window on a range of related conversations, where jiscemerge is a proxy follower for the wider community of many conversations (perhaps too many?)
Following a hash tag puts the onus on a lot of people to remember to tag their posts of interest the U&I community. And, a lot of stuff is interesting even if not explicitly stated to be so. I don't think my preference would be to follow a hash tag on the site. Twitter streams are public. Anyone can look at anyones stream, and anyone can follow anyone else (unless explicitly blocked for some reason).
hi,
I don't mind my tweets being mirroed in the JISC-Emerge site. However, it disturbs me a bit to see the main page of the Emerge Community so packed with information. I prefered when the blog posts got more visability. As a visual learner I like a "clean" looking site, and right now I feel the main page of the site is a bit overwhelming - especailly if you access it from a small screen, like I do from home (laptp screen is tiny! ;-) ) .
In this sense, I would rather have a link to the community tweets on the side link frame. I also think some people would rather have only some of their tweets displayed here - the ones directly related with the activity of the community. So aggregating twemes instead of people's entire twitter stream might not be a bad idea! ;-)