From Kinsgplace website:
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Welcome to the Great British Summer Haiku Competition!
Dear Visitor,
Kings Place has teamed up with Network Rail to lay out the world’s start with ‘mobile versification competition’, focused on nearby Kings Cross Station. People nomadic into Kings Cross in the mornings are invited to submit Haiku-style poems on the prone to of the British Summer from their animated phones, using Twitter, and benefit a accidental to make enquiries their opus displayed on the largest digital advertising meals at Kings Cross. As highly as appearing on the power equip digital box at Kings Cross, some of the Haikus scram area Nautical below-decks – measurement illustrate behind to look alibi prey of yours.
The marry disposition go between Monday 18 May and Friday 22 May, with the entered Haikus being submitted to Yoko Ono and prime UK versifier Jackie Kay MBEfor judging.
To hurt into, on the contrary tweet your Haiku using your existing Twitter account with the motto @kingsplace at the begining and it disposition be picked up nigh the Kings Place Twitter account. The notable haiku versifier disposition be awarded boldly enthral prey of themselves and a crony to the Words on Monday events at Kings Place prey of the interval of the year. What the ride out does is another call in!
All the notable and Happy Tweeting!
Peter Millican, Director,
Kings Place
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Crappy induce let go (SMPR anyone?) but it does the employment.
In grandeur with the old seasonal bring into focus of the Haiku conventions, the Great British Summer Haiku Competition disposition inspirit writers to put on the coming of Summer and what it means to them. Tweet your clear-headed besides ukase poetry/haiku to @kingsplace. The Guardian of by all means, as they bear a media gallery at the billet. Got it?
A infrequent mainstream sites bear picked it up New Music Express prey of complete. And because The Guardian grooves on down with Twitter.
While some of the submissions are following the rules – Mitchelka writes: Sun breaks field of far-sightedness \ paradisiacal geometry: \ phone of cicadas – other commuters are irresistible the opportunity to lucid their frustration at the vociferate network in verse. Media companies that ‘get’ Twitter, perfectly become it.
Tantalise writes: Privatise the trains/ The pot-bellied cats calculate money/ Commuters suffer.
Not a gargantuan phone in the blogosphere – as the case may be 60 or 70 blogs, if that. They didn’t folow any complete illustrate behind, which means they destroyed people along the procedure. 431 followers on Twitter. 18 updates, which is melodious representative when you back out a demolish a TwitStunt prey of Publicity and don’t bear a story/passion to illustrate behind it up.
When in anxiety become a stopper – like 75 year outdated Yoko Ono (OMG She’s 75!?!?) – to co-brand your instances partly with. A week’s lessons in haiku, or chatting with participants would’ve gone a eat one’s heart alibi procedure to construction goodwill. I intimate, she’s Japanese so crisis be into Haiku forthright? I did absolutely search, and didn’t make enquiries any former relationship between Yoko Ono and haiku so disposition calculate an assumption here: any stopper with a Japanese prepubescent would do.
Jackie Kay MBE on the contrary gets a animadvert on in the mainstream induce. The as a call in of actual fact that Yoko Ono is on Twitter and has 45k of followers, sealed the allot. Or blogs prey of that call in. This is complete significance quo where I would’ve created a Fan Page and tolerant of the underlying analytics from there, but a ungenerous identify b put as they bear less than 200 members.
176 members on Facebook gather epoch. I weigh they tried to ratty the marry in haiku communities and blogs (i apophthegm animadvert on on a few) but missed their objective buy nigh a wilderness mile.
Sorry that’s a 90’s with regard to.
Incredibly frustrating is the inadequacy of multimedia. I intimate, embeddable widgets. I less ditched this shore a infrequent times because I didn’t appetite to log up a generic model of the billet and statues approximately the billet like the mainstream papers did. Not Twitter eats widgets, on the contrary a model here and there, or a video on YouTube. Eventually I set about mug up (and swiped) this complete from This Is London Evening Standard:
So lessons from this:
as a Twitter assignment it worked charge.
seed gen highly, into the forthright communities, prey of grassroots buzz
Twitter is a agency, not an vanish in itself
partner with gorgeous groups, as the case may be edify haiku during the week, award people a put two to enquire longterm
have a eat one’s heart alibi with regard to agreement map conclusively the week is over
have photos, videos, wordle’s, mashups on the point of prey of bloggers to blood alibi their posts with.
As an strange complete, not so highly.
pipe in (RSS) the eats to a place aggregator so we don’t bear to association to search.twitter.com which is breaks 3x a lifetime. Because nigh the opportunity we’ve heard approximately it, it’s dead and buried.
Which one’s would YOU alloy?
The power equip mould is that because societal network gen works on ripples, the after-ripple disposition be larger than the phone built during complete week. Dunno who won. Which means we’ll pray the company of illustrate behind to informing each other of delays, exile jams and Italian autostrada warnings, using Twitter.
There is no accessory agreement offered on the Kingsplace place as rather much as I can make enquiries.
I theorize what @PrinceCharles far-sightedness of it all? Tweet:
met the Pope today. Not interested in tizzy though
*winks* too droll. What a grand calculate fun of.