Twitter - what is it good for?

Training on social media use given to a small audience, several years ago.

Transcript

1. Twitter What's it Good For?
4. Who Uses Twitter?
5. Twitter Characteristics one-to-many communication openness brevity - 140 characters long immediacy best suited for smartphones
6. Breaking News
7. Breaking News earthquakes traffic riots space shuttle launch Institute closings @stfac rainbows
9. News Don't like Fox, CNN, or NPR? Tailor your own news feed. •choose your sources •see who the ones you trust follow •search hashtags for the whole story
10. Professional Upkeep hashtags lists follow the big names e.g. Ben Shneiderman crowdsourcing
12. Job Seeking The more connections you make, the more you expose yourself to wider networks - thus more likely to stumble across opportunity. Personal Branding @TweetMyJobs “TweetMyJOBS.com tweeted 43,828 jobs in the last 24 hours & 1,806,072 in the last month. #hiring #jobs.” Search use keywords and hashtags
13. At Work Businesses can use microblogging for project status updates, group communication, logs.... •Jaiku •Plurk •Identica
14. Conferences
15. Conferences Track the conference hashtag Tweet questions to speakers share ideas and resources from the sessions connect people who might not have connected otherwise broaden conference discussion to include those not physically present identify and connect with participants •nametags •tweetups
16. At School
17. At School "Studies frequently discover that greater participation translates into better academic performance, motivation, and a likelihood of adopting different points of view, which is why it is so striking that Twitter can foster that type of communication." social knowledge tweeting questions and answers learn to be concise overcome shyness and increasing class size
18. Keep Track of Friends and Family
19. Keep Track of Friends and Family
20. Keep Track of Friends and Family Ambient Awareness Spontaneous Meetups Pictures
21. Personal Productivity Remember the Milk is an application that integrates with Twitter to help you remember all those things that can slip through the cracks. Have @timer remind you of your meetings – or just to refill that parking meter in 15 minutes. With @trackthis, you can keep tabs on FedEx, UPS and DHL shipments.
22. The Sky is the Limit Tweeting kicks from the womb Prepare dinner fast Spinach Nut Salad: top 5c torn spinach w dice apple/c mix nuts/3T parmesan; +whisked 3T nut oil/T wine vinegar/.5t soy sauce&Dijon&dill/s+p. Lose Weight E-postcards take a picture on vacation, tweet it, and everyone gets to see you in front of the pyramid with the tweet "Wish you were here"