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? Our 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.

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

This is a great tool to see who you are following/who is following you on twitter and manage the whole shebang easier than in Twitter itself. Tags: community twitte I was amazed to see that most of my connections are reciprocal. ...Tags:

Create a account to use the microblogging tool here. ...Tags: Tags: cp2tech02 accountcreat

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.

(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. Trevor Cook put a dozen Australian Journalists on Twitter together. Here is a little formula I just cooked up called the Tweet-GQ (Tweet Gary Quotient) that works out a Twitter rating. Let’s sit here and watch them. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes . Who watches the watchers themselves? By the way, the first social networking book I ever read was The Republic by Plato, mashing’up and

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 about

Technorati Tags: Measuring , Metrics , mike seyfang , tweetburner , Twitter , twurl ...Tags: Tags: tweetburner twurl mike seyfang Twitter Measuring Metric How do you know who has clicked through on a link, how many times and the sum of click thrus on retweets? Let Auntie SilkCharm explain.