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, than you You can follow people, or otherwise, people can follow you. It also provides possibilities to exchange your emotions, questions and other experiences.

We conducted a week-long experiment with Twitter , for 12 people who were not yet familiar with the tool. I'll also share my own ideas about Twitter in more detail. Twitter is: A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? In this blogpost, we'll describe the experiment, and we'll summarize the reflections and new ideas for applicability of the tool. Basically you update your information continuously with short messages (max.

We concluded that what councils need in order to share so-called “best practice” is not more consultancy, reports and databases, but video clips, conversations, and encouragement to tell bad stories as well a good. The event was organised by Steve Dale , who works with IDeA on improving how our councils operate - in his case by developing communities of practice for knowledge sharing, with Michael Norton, as I reported here . Last week I spent half a day in a workshop on local government knowledge management. Boring waste of time?

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? They use twitter to connect with students, parents and other stakeholders, to share resources for teachers and to have tweetpolls and conversations. I'm working with a learning network in education using a sharepoint platform. 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

I've now participated in three Twitter chat sessions. I've interviewed Rinus about his way of facilitating a twitter chat. Why did you start facilitating Twitter Chats? It started with a movie that I saw about Twitter Tuesday for the U.S. I said jokingly, that we could start a twitter Tuesday in the Netherlands. The first time was I late, I arrived on the scene towards the end. The second I could not really follow well, I saw all these separate and short messages.

The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine. The question always comes up “why would we be interested in something like Twitter. This was interesting to me because I’m co-leading a short online workshop introducing social media in a global international development network. One application I try to show is Twitter as social listening.

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.

In the wake of a truly ghastly series of articles on Twitter , I am beginning to think that journalists will never write well on any thing that involves online communities or social media. Here’s what journalist Andy Pemberton of the Times Online learned via his informants about the stereotypical twitter user: “The clinical psychologist Oliver James has his reservations. “Twittering Perhaps the problem is this simple: They just don’t have the time to spend on participating in these communities which a thorough understanding of these phenomena require. You

I’ve been co-designing and c0-facilitating a number of workshops for the CGIAR and FAO over the past few years about knowledge sharing, and more recently, this phenomenon people call “social media.” thought I’d share a few of them on this blog.  Or the people who start following the messages you send out on Twitter and gain a deeper 8221; Part of this work has been to  comb through resources and create some launch pads that are relevant to NGOs and non profits. I

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