Twitter provides you the possibility to exchange short messages with a large number of people. Twitter can be used in many different ways. For example, you can use your twitter network to help you do your work. If you are looking for a guest speaker on a certain topic, and you can not directly find this person, You can follow people, or otherwise, people can follow you. It also provides possibilities to exchange your emotions, questions and other experiences.

I used to think Twitter was stupid. Twitter is a "micro-blogging" platform that allows you to quickly post short messages[tweets] of I see "What are you doing?" reading the morning paper with a perfect cup of coffee". This is info you may want to know from your intimate others, but not from everyone you are reading on Twitter. I ignore the After one week of actual activity, I find it useful. as the wrong question — it focuses too much on daily minutiae, and not on what others may find interesting about you.

This is a really interesting wiki which tries to identify networks and communities of interest who are showing up on twitter. ...Tags: Tags: howto community community_indicators communities_of_practice twitte

I'm working with a learning network in education using a sharepoint platform. When I saw this video on the free technology for teachers blog with about the use of twitter for educators I was struck by the way they see twitter as THE only tool for educators. How is twitter used by the panel? It's hard to move from face-to-face meeting to online interaction (for a number of reasons and we're writing a whole paper about the challenges). We're experimenting with webconferences and I was suggesting to experiment with other tools like a weblog, ning, or a google group.

Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). Due to the nature of email infrastructure and network routing topologies, as long as you know the email address of someone, you can send them a message (in general). Twitter It's a great question - my thoughts below: Enterprise Instant Messaging (IM)

Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat. Twitter is also a great way to attend a conference without actually being there – just follow a conference hashtag (e.g. #smib09 But watch out Twitter. It’s worth pointing out that Twitter Image courtesy of Shutterstock Reading what other people tweet during a speech provides an extra dimension as you get a sense of what the audience is thinking.

In List Building Using Twitter , I discussed the importance of list building and the ease of building a list using Twitter . In this article I focus on building your Twitter community — people who relate to your niche and who share some of your interests — people with whom you can network and who also extend your list in a more targeted way than previously outlined. Is Twitter Past Its Prime? Twitter will not last forever. However, I’m hoping that Twitter will have a strong future.

In the spirit of passing time at Christmas, and following on from a heated discussion about the meaning and robustness of community in online environments, I invited 100 of my 1,276 current Twitter followers to fill in a quick survey cunningly designed to provide a fairly wonky measure of community allegiance. I love Twitter and I've spent an unhealthy amount of time hanging out there in the last year. Of course I welcome critical feedback about the methodology employed, but I had two hours sleep last night and yes, I quickly realised the massive cultural bias implicit in most if not all of the questions.

The Economist on social networking - world of connections This week,  The Economist, every Capatilist’s favourite magazine, has published a special report on on social networking . Introduction: A world of connections “Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play” What joy. A World of Connections , provides an excellent overview of the current state of social media for those still trying to get to grips with it.

(nearly 100) Here’s a list of journalists from Australian (mostly mainstream, some New Zealanders) media who have embraced, indeed are head over heels, in love with Twitter. Who watches the watchers themselves? By the way, the first social networking book I ever read was The Republic by Plato, mashing’up and misquoting Socrates. Trevor Cook put a dozen Australian Journalists on Twitter together. Let’s sit here and watch them. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes . So, children, follow Homo Journalis in his natural habitat.