Watch out, Oprah! Heads up, Ashton Kucher! Here comes the mighty GCM!
On Tuesday, GCM joined some rarefied air in the world of Twitter — we got our 100th follower (now all the way up to 108). Now, I realize that not everyone on Twitter can attract the overwhelming number of followers that our account attracts. But in light of the much publicized Twitter accounts of the previously mentioned superstars, I'm proud that our little golf course maintenance magazine could move into the same territory as those luminaries and ...
What's that? What do you mean we're not even close to Oprah and Ashton? They both have more than a million followers? Really? Like, a million as in a one with six zeroes behind it? As in 999,892 more followers that GCM has?
Oh.
You know what? Who cares? We're still going to celebrate, because for those of at GCM, breaking the century mark was a bit of a milestone and joins the slowly growing collection of evidence that folks in the golf course maintenance industry are indeed embracing the social media. Between this blog, Twitter, GCSAA's foray into online video with GCSAA TV, we feel we're expanding and improving on the ways we offer information to our readers. We hope you agree.
Still don't know what a Twitter is? Well, jump on the bandwagon! A simple Google search might provide you the best definition of Twitter, but you can also go straight to their Web site to sign up or if you're really desperate, you can go back and read this post that we put together right after creating our Twitter account right before the Ryder Cup last September. Once you're registered and ready to follow, just search GCM_Magazine, hit the follow button and you're all set!
Now, in a completely unrelated story ...
I mentioned this a few weeks back, but wanted to remind superintendents in the Northeast who are battling annual bluegrass weevils right now that there is an online tool from the folks at DuPont that can help in your scouting efforts. At www.weeviltrack.com, you can view an updated map where 11 university researchers are posting observations and conditions in certain areas. These updates are also searchable, so you can enter a zip code to find reports near you.
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