If you follow me on Twitter, feel free to ignore this entry; this information is not new to you.



If you have no idea what Twitter is, please keep reading. Many friends, family and other readers to this site have asked what is all this Twitter about? Before we get started, let me just say that Twitter is not new. In fact, there were more than 14 million other people that discovered Twitter before me (courtesy of Twitterholic).

Wikipedia defines Twitter as, "... a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application..."

In short, Twitter is like text-messages you can follow online or via text message to your cell phone. The first person I started "following" on Twitter was David from the FredCast (the internet's premiere cycling podcast). With a quick text page of 'follow FredCast to 40404 I was getting text page updates from David. Besides getting updates on my cell phone, I can also go to the internet and read his updates there http://twitter.com/fredcast.

I now find myself following a handful of my podcast friends, other cyclists, writers, technology gurus, the three leading presidential candidates, and a guy I went to high school with among others. Twitter loads especially easy on my iPhone so I check it often throughout the day.

I also track keywords in the public Twitter via text message. By sending a text message of 'track beckwith' to 40404 I get updates to my cell phone any time someone in the Twitterverse uses the word 'beckwith'. What else am I tracking?

The name of the company where I work. Because I work for a large corporation with millions of customers it is very interesting to see what the Twitterverse thinks of us. Mostly negative, some positive, but still a interesting angle on the voice of the customer.

Where I live, where I ride, where I work. I track Stockton, Lodi, Pleasanton, Livermore. I also track 580 and 205 which helps when there is a traffic issue.

Still confused? Well, don't be. The fine folks at Common Craft have done it again with a great video explanation of Twitter. Check it out here.


Also, in case you always wanted to know what a podcast was, Common Craft has a great video explanation of that, too. After you watch that, hop on over to Pizza Go Here and subscribe to our podcast.

So, now you know all about Twitter. Sign up and follow me. You'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

I made a mistake with the comments and accidently deleted a lot of them. If you've commented on our site lately and your comment is gone, sorry about that. Please feel free to comment now, I promise not to delete them.

In case you didn't notice, we are busy adding archives from the past several years. Some of our entries from mattbeckwith.com, pizzagohere.com, familyisforever.com and even our old AOL webpages might show up. Some of the links may not be working (especially those to picture pages which have moved). We are trying to clean them up but aren't making any promises.

Thanks for stopping by... stay a while... enjoy your visit... drop us a line.

With the start of Emily's and Makenzy's soccer season set to begin in less than 6 hours I have finally got most of the recent pics posted. I used a couple of different formats... let me know which you prefer. Good night!

... to the new Beckwith website... beckwithweb.com.

We still have our home of the past several years, mattbeckwith.com but we will be moving all of our 35,000 or so files to our new site.



- Matt, Dawn, Emily and Makenzy

Pictures, pages and videos are queued up and ready for the move. Pics from the Stockton Lightning game and the Brad Paisley, Sara Evans, Josh Turner concert are also up (go to 'pics' link). More to come soon.

We were in the process of updating the site... hadn't decided which program is better. iWeb is really cool but the structure is difficult and there are only a handful of themes. RapidWeaver has been the tool of choice ever since I stopped doing it on a pc and will continue to be my favorite on the mac.




See ya!

... well, only a month! But what a month indeed, December flew by... Christmas, Eve and New Years have passed... what a fast year. Nothing rings in the new year quite like the G&M combo birthday party! So, check out the picture pages... there's plenty of catching up to do. So, first, Merry Christmas

and nothin' says Christmas like new babies... there's plenty of pics of Audrey... since she just loves having a camera in front of her... she's such happy baby... probably because she is always thinking about her favorite uncle (Matt) and aunt (Dawn).

Also... what's Christmas without a kid in a box... here's another niece, 'lizabeth, fitting nicely in a box that Santa brought.

Happy Birthday Gianna & Maryssa... cool party.... glad you're old uncles and cousins got to hang out, too.

Welcome to our site... pizzagohere.com, formerly known as mattbeckwith.com ... gladly serving you since 1997...
 . . . CONGRATS TO THE DETROIT PISTONS . . . !!!!

Pizza Go Here???? What the heck kind of name is that for a web site??? I can here it now.  I guess I expected that question to be asked.  Pizza go here is forever; "pizza go here" is proof that family never forgets... especially when you really want them to!  Pizza go here is a famous quote uttered by my Mom, at Dante's Pizza, many years ago... you know... sometimes what you mean to say and what you actually say are two different things... well, that's what happened.  When the waitress came to our table with the food, Ma said, "pizza go here!"  and we have been laughing about it ever since!
So... Dawn and I have been talking about changing domain names but we just couldn't come up with a name that stood out above the rest... then, a few nights ago... it hit Dawn... just as she was going to bed... she came running into the Outback... PIZZA GO HERE... and here we are!

Welcome back to mattbeckwith.com - we redecorated... again... pretty much the same content... but we will try to post more pictures and keep the site up-to-date...                       ...enjoy 
so... what are we up to... well, it's january so that means new seasons of 24 and american idol... yes, american idol!  that is our family show... we all watch it together... cheering on the good ones and laughing at the bad ones.  we are very civil to each other... that is, until voting starts... then we can get mean and nasty. during season 1 we always had one unified vote... one family, one vote... we had to agree on one vote... last year we could never agree so now everyone gets their own vote.
superbowl?  no thanks, we'll pass!  actually, we will be in arizona that weekend ... rootin' for the panthers!!!

Welcome to our site --- once again updated... a Spring Cleaning of sorts.  I guess I get bored with the same ol' look and feel.  Sometimes I think I am the only one that even visits this page (please, if you're out there, drop me an e-mail and let me know you actually saw this page.

For return visitors, most of the content is still the same; you can still find pictures, pictures and more pictures, find out what we're up to as well as browse some original MP3s and videos.

If your name is Matt Beckwith and you have found my page after asking the age-old question, "hmmm, I wonder if that domain is taken", or you know another Matt Beckwith, you can still visit the "More Matt Beckwiths than you can shake a stick at" page. 
One of the biggest changes is the fact that I can no longer use the Publish feature in FrontPage so there will be no more forms or counters.  I know that there are other ways to do them but I simply don't have the time to learn them. So, it's back to the basics.



So, while your here, pull up a chair and relax for a while... we have lots of pictures and a little bit of humor along with a snap shot of our life for you to see.  Use the links below to get around.  If you come across something that doesn't work, please be sure to let us know.
Enjoy.
Matt & Dawn

Our girls are probably the single biggest reason we have a site in the first place so of course the girls have newly designed pages of their own.  Also, with nephews and nieces by the dozen, pictures will always be plentiful.