KidBuzzNY: Up to the minute news for NYC parents and kids

Do you twitter? Have you figured out what it is or how to make it useful? That's something I've been wondering myself and think we might have come up with one answer: to create a cool tool that will update NYC families with the hottest, most up to the minute news of what's going on in New York for kids.  

Twitter is like "micro-blogging". You can update the world with any news you want to share as long as you can say it in 140 characters or less. Then everyone who is "following" you can see what you've said on their computers or mobile devices.

Now, I'm not a big social media person...I'm actually not a big social person. I don't chit chat, the art of small talk is lost on me and I don't really care what you had for breakfast, so, while I have the obligatory Twitter account, I have been waiting to figure out something cool to do with it before I really decided to use it.

So Karen from A Child Grows in Brooklyn and I put our head's together and figured out how we could use twitter to create a crowdsourcing tool (doesn't that sound cool?) that will let all of us get the word out to other NYC parents about the latest news for kids in New York.

Say hi to KidBuzzNY, The Inside Scoop Written by You. It's our twitter group that will let all of us spread the word about the latest and greatest for kids in New York.

I'm very excited about this because it gives me a way to share lots of information that I want to get out to you, but there just aren't enough hours in the day to write up as full posts. But why just hear from me. There are thousands of you out there each with your own great news, tips and experiences.

Know about a something cool? Share the buzz. At a great event? Share the buzz. Did the great event turn out to be so crowded it wasn't worth it? Warn other parents. Share the buzz. The one thing we ask is that you don't use this for marketing anything. We reserve the right to remove marketing messages and will ban repeat offenders. Let's keep it cool, folks.

If you like the information on this site, then I encourage you to check out KidBuzzNY on twitter or here in the sidebar widget for lots more great tips you won't want to miss.

How does it work? Simple. If you don't twitter already, go to twitter.com and sign up for an account, then find KidBuzzNY and follow us.

To share your buzz: Tweet @kidbuzzny. Any tweet that starts with @kidbuzzny will go out to all our followers.

Get the buzz: You can see the latest KidBuzz on the widgets on our sites, on twitter.com or on your phone just like any other twitter account.

Want a widget for your site? Send me an email and I'll send you the code to place a widget on your site. Then your readers can get the latest right from your own site.

Questions?: email me.