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FlyLady, maven of household orderliness, joins Twitter and brings FlyBabies with her. Hail the Queen of Communities

October 29, 2008 By 12 Comments

How many of you were followed by FlyLady yesterday on Twitter? From the looks of things lots of you, but do you know who FlyLady is? When the web was young (like Web 0.5) FlyLady emerged with a Yahoo group with the goal to end CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome), have a cleaner house, and be better organized. Think GTD for your home.

She knows how to organize her community. In fact I’d say she is the mother of all community managers. Her devotees are called “FlyBabies” and often received personal messages of encouragement from her in the group’s emails. I don’t know how FlyLady has done it, but she’s been going strong for probably 13-14 years now. Yeah years.

Now you want to talk about volume? Yeah I tried to subscribing for a while, but holy smokes she sends out a lot of stuff. Hey they are all great ideas for keeping CHAOS at bay, but wow.

Now FlyLady is on Twitter and we should welcome her with open arms. Heck I’ve followed her back and she’ll go in my watch list soon (thank God her tweets aren’t as active as emails!). Her FLyBabies are joining Twitter as well and following the people she is following. She has over 1,600 followers in about 20 hours. Yeah hours. If that isn’t having an uber loyal and loving community, I don’t know what is.

Props to FlyLady and welcome to Twitter. Now, please share your community building wisdom with us, cause you’re our Queen.

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  • http://www.blogtalkradio.com Alan Levy

    Tris,

    Did you also know that the Flylady is the number one show on http://www.blogtalkradio.com? Not only does Marla have a show but an entire station http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/flylady/popular.aspx

    Marla is a wonderful person and a dear friend.

    Alan Levy
    CEO BlogTalkRadio

  • http://www.blogtalkradio.com Alan Levy

    Tris,

    Did you also know that the Flylady is the number one show on http://www.blogtalkradio.com? Not only does Marla have a show but an entire station http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/flylady/popular.aspx

    Marla is a wonderful person and a dear friend.

    Alan Levy
    CEO BlogTalkRadio

  • http://www.trishussey.com/ Tris Hussey

    Hey Alan, thanks for swinging by. Yes I seem to remember that. It is truly amazing what she’s done.

  • http://www.trishussey.com/ Tris Hussey

    Hey Alan, thanks for swinging by. Yes I seem to remember that. It is truly amazing what she’s done.

  • http://blog.blogtalkradio.com Deb Ng

    Hi Tris,

    We’re very proud of the FlyLady, and you’re right, she is a master at community building. I think her secret is that she’s a darn nice lady.

    But getting back to Twitter, we’ve been promoting and “teaching” Twitter to a lot of our BlogTalkRadio hosts through our Yahoo group and via email. By showing them how to use social media as a tool for promotion, we’re encouraging them to build their own communities within our community.

    For the past three weeks Twitter has been a hot topic among the BlogTalkRadio community and I’m so proud to see many of our hosts jump on the bandwagon.

    Now, when are we getting you back with your own show?

    Hope you’re well,

    Deb

    Deb Ng´s last blog post..What’s Going On? Spooky Halloween ‘08 Edition

  • http://blog.blogtalkradio.com Deb Ng

    Hi Tris,

    We’re very proud of the FlyLady, and you’re right, she is a master at community building. I think her secret is that she’s a darn nice lady.

    But getting back to Twitter, we’ve been promoting and “teaching” Twitter to a lot of our BlogTalkRadio hosts through our Yahoo group and via email. By showing them how to use social media as a tool for promotion, we’re encouraging them to build their own communities within our community.

    For the past three weeks Twitter has been a hot topic among the BlogTalkRadio community and I’m so proud to see many of our hosts jump on the bandwagon.

    Now, when are we getting you back with your own show?

    Hope you’re well,

    Deb

    Deb Ng´s last blog post..What’s Going On? Spooky Halloween ‘08 Edition

  • http://www.trishussey.com/ Tris Hussey

    Ah so you’ve unleashed the BTR hosts on Twitter, eh? Well it’s all good of course. The more promotion tools the better.

    Me? Another show? Well I’ll have to talk with the community manager about getting my ID straightened out.

  • http://www.trishussey.com/ Tris Hussey

    Ah so you’ve unleashed the BTR hosts on Twitter, eh? Well it’s all good of course. The more promotion tools the better.

    Me? Another show? Well I’ll have to talk with the community manager about getting my ID straightened out.

  • http://blog.blogtalkradio.com Deb Ng

    I hear tell BTR has an awesome Community Manager now – send her an email at deborahng(at)blogtalkradio(dot)com and she’ll see what she can do about getting you straightened out.

    Deb Ng´s last blog post..What’s Going On? Spooky Halloween ‘08 Edition

  • http://blog.blogtalkradio.com Deb Ng

    I hear tell BTR has an awesome Community Manager now – send her an email at deborahng(at)blogtalkradio(dot)com and she’ll see what she can do about getting you straightened out.

    Deb Ng´s last blog post..What’s Going On? Spooky Halloween ‘08 Edition

  • http://www.trishussey.com/ Tris Hussey

    I’ve heard that. I shall zap her a line.

  • http://www.trishussey.com/ Tris Hussey

    I’ve heard that. I shall zap her a line.

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