Tweeting for Teshuvah:Enhancing your Spiritual Journey

Using the Internet

Slichot, 5770September 4, 2010

Aspects of Teshuvah

Inspiration

Information

Intervention

Internet Services Typify Each Aspect• With some overlap…

INSPIRATION:

TWITTER

Inspiration

Variety of Sources

Strikes Unexpectedly

Frame of Mind

May Occur only after Multiple

Exposures

Twitter

“Micro-Blogging”• Messages (tweets): 140 characters or less

• Links to articles, pictures, etc.• Usually shortened

Follow • @SamKamens

• @hpct_cae

• @USCJMidAtlantic

Retweet

Seeing your tweets• Web

• Mobile (sometimes SMS)

• Desktop Application

Inspiration via Twitter

Follow Inspiring People

Follow Links

“Dip into the Stream”

Twitter Feed

Jewels of Elul

http://www.jewelsofelul.com

@JewishTweets

YouTube (@YouTube)

YouTube

@TweetTheExodus

INFORMATION:

WEB SITES AND SEARCH

Information

Specific Need

Initiated when Desired

Bounded/Finite

http://www.hpct-cae.org

United Synagogue

http://www.uscj.org

Chabad

Google

INTERVENTION:

FACEBOOK

Intervention

Reach out to Others

Righting Wrongs

How do you Find Them?

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com

Social Networking• Connections

Features• Events

• Photos

• Notes

• Pages

• Wall

Find Friends

Friend Request

News Feed

Wall

Pages