{"id":117,"date":"2014-02-15T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=117"},"modified":"2014-02-15T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:25:00","slug":"now-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Now on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we opened an account on Twitter.  You can follow us at @wmfhlp.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd-funding thing is interesting. It seems to me like a slam-dunk that 15,000 people out of 300 million would be willing to drop $1 on our project, or almost any given project for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>So the issue comes down to marketing &#8211; getting your project in front of the most people and find those folks out there with a spare dollar and enough gumption to click on &#8220;contribute now&#8221;.  Or so it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Our Twitter account will, we hope, add substantially to the number of people who could see our appeal. <\/p>\n<p>We are having a bit of trouble getting Twitter and Facebook to talk to each other.  But we will eventually get that worked out.  That part is really a convenience for us since it means one entry in Twitter is echoed in Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The whole new-media thing is exciting, interesting, and sometimes frustrating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we opened an account on Twitter. You can follow us at @wmfhlp. The crowd-funding thing is interesting. It seems to me like a slam-dunk that 15,000 people out of 300 million would be willing to drop $1 on our project, or almost any given project for that matter. So the issue comes down to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now on Twitter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}