Date post: | 06-May-2015 |
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Using Twitter for professional development
What is it?
• What are you doing?
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The Banal
The useful
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Signing up: twitter.com
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Signing up: twitter.com
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Signing up: twitter.com
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Signing up: twitter.com
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Now what?
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Follow who I follow
Building your PLN
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Your new profile page
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Your new profile page
My Twitter home page
My profile page
Tweets that mention me
The ‘language’ of Twitter
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Conversations and talking
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Retweets - RT• Sharing• Amplifying• Esteeming• ‘Liking’
Direct Messages (DM)
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Topics/hashtags
• Apprentice #apprentice• Question Time #bbcqt• UKEdchat #ukedchat• Conferences and events #ngflconf
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Hashtagged topics
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Hashtags
Keeping it briefHow do you fit this:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=homer+simpson+emoticon&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GZAZ_en&redir_esc=&ei=6BonTsCHBpK5hAfs3aSKCg
…into a tweet?
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Managing things
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Follower management
• Check each new follower• Look who people are talking to• Look at lists• Look who follows who
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Privacy? Spam?
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Nuclear option!
Subtle: No thanks, don’t want to hear
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Privacy? Spam?
Some golden rules
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What else?
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My blog
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Class blog
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Further readinghttp://ianaddison.net/?p=80http://bit.ly/jycFKihttp://bit.ly/lUnLuy
My recommended first 50 or so people to follow
https://twitter.com/#!/LearningSpy/my-50-favourite-tweeps