Courts Twitter, Facebook and Google+ users with promise of ‘hard hat tour’
A T-shirt, free software, maybe even an iPad if you’re really lucky: These are the types of enticements most social media teams are able to offer in order to pump up their followings on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
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Not NASA. No sir, there will be none of that pedestrian swag for our nation’s space agency. NASA is offering its social media followers a “hard hat tour.” Details from an agency press release:
NASA and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will invite 28 of their social media followers to a two-day NASA Social Nov. 1-2 in Florida. The event will commemorate the move of space shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building to its final destination for permanent display at the center’s visitor complex.
During the NASA Social, people who engage with NASA through Twitter, Facebook and Google+ will have an opportunity for a special “hard hat tour” of the new Atlantis exhibit building and to witness the arrival of Atlantis at Space Florida’s Exploration Park. Participants will speak with experts from NASA’s human spaceflight and commercial programs, tour NASA facilities, see featured spaceflight hardware from the past, present and future, and listen to presentations honoring the Space Shuttle Program.
Anybody can buy an iPad.
NASA has more info about how you might score an invitation here.
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