I found this RSS very interesting. I've never heard of twitter until my husband told me about it and showed me his account and how it works. I'm not much one for blogging or tweeting(twitter's name for messages). But I am starting to see the value of the service if I can get over my unease with the whole process. You always want to put the correct message up and it will be seen by lots of people. You have to dive in and conquer the fear. I have a couple suggestions if you want to use twitter as a resource. Here goes-Having a professional user name, a short accurate one-line bio, choosing a twitter picture and designing your twitter profile.
Professional Name: You have two choices- professional or personal. You want people to be able to find you easy by your relationship with them.
One-Line Bio: You only get 160 characters in order to describe yourself or a project you maybe working on. Put some thought into this portion of the set-up. Use 2 to 3 word phrases until you use up your 160 characters.
Twitter Picture: You need to post a picture that portrays you as both professional and personable-exactly what your tweets should be doing for you.
Designing a Profile: Since there is little room to be creative in your bio, you can make the profile an extension of you as well. We don't want to use any of the templates supplied by twitter. Instead you can upload a background that can be an extension of your company or career that you couldn't fit in your bio.
Whether you use these or not you should check out twitter. It has lots of professionals and is very different from other social media sites like Facebook and Myspace.
I'm starting to come around with the idea (don' tell my husband) but haven't committed. I do believe that if used as a resource we could really gain a lot of knowledge from around the world. This seems to almost go hand in hand with Web 2.0. Let me know your thoughts.
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Well you got my attention. I'm going to check out twitter and turn my husband on to it as well. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI've been on Twitter for well over a year now and it is one of the most important pieces of my PLN (Personal learning network), which is something we'll be exploring in this course. Developing your Twitter network takes some time and a personal investment into its upkeep. I have since found another micro-blogging network called Plurk and really enjoy the conversations, sharing, and collaboration I have encountered there. Since I've found Plurk, I don't "tweet" as much as I used to, but I still keep up with Twitter since I have a large network there.
ReplyDeleteI love all the information you provided here on Twitter!
PS. I'm cobannon on twitter http://twitter.com/cobannon
I'm also new to Twitter! I've not yet gotten "the hang" of it - but have hopes and will continue exploring its uses.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we can set up a Barrow Web 2.0 network once the course is complete to stay connected!
I made a Twitter account a while back, but honestly I don't understand for what it can be used. Since I made the account, I really haven't used it. I'll admit to not having read all 23 Things, because I want to be surprised. Nonetheless, I'm secretly hoping Twitter is a thing.
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