The National Association of Manufacturers’ 2010 Manufacturing Summit was the NAM’s first effort at concentrated, multiperson tweeting of an event, done via our Twitter presence @Shopfloor_NAM.

As of this morning, the effort produced 106 Tweets using the hashtag #mfgsmt. The NAM had 10 people Tweeting, and 19 others retweeted one or more of our messages.

Even though the Library of Congress has identified our Tweets as worthy of saving for posterity (along with everyone else’s), we’ve uploaded the #mfgsmt entries here.

Thanks, everyone!

P.S. Here’s a Primer on Twitter from The Christian Science Monitor.

As a very minor part of the new look around here, the blog of the National Association of Manufacturers — Shopfloor.org — has a new Twitter appellation, @Shopfloor_NAM.

It’s all the news, commentary and feigned innocent wonder boiled down to 140 characters. We’d welcome your followhood.

(If you’ve already been following us @NAM_Shopfloor, all is well. You’re still signed up.)

Signed up quite some time ago for the White House e-mail distribution service, that “Get Updates” box you can fill out at www.whitehouse.gov.

For news purposes it’s worse than useless, only occasionally distributing a general message sort of e-mail. For example, yesterday people on the list got an e-mail from White House homeland security adviser John O. Brennan passing on exhortations to prepare for flu season.

But now one finds the White House’s Twitter RSS feed, http://twitter.com/whitehouse_rss, which offers the latest update in news releases and statements. That’s where you go to get the White House news.

The e-mail distribution seems like more of a campaign-influenced approach, sending out good stuff to supporters. The RSS Twitter is the nuts and bolts media outreach of any professional operation.

The NAM’s Twitter feed is somewhere in-between. But you be the judge:

http://twitter.com/NAM_Shopfloor or in the protocol of the medium, @NAM_Shopfloor

The political news itself is of no concern. What’s interesting is the headline, banner across the top of today’s Washington Times:

One marvels at the pace of technological change in the Internet world. A year ago, would this headline have made any sense to anybody? Governor Palin herself just started posting on Twitter on April 29th.

Anyway, the NAM has a Twitter account, @NAM_Shopfloor. There’s merit to it, so please feel free to add us to your list of sites being followed.