The Good News About Tweet Streams - Smarter Strategies. Eric Lundquist | Date: 06-10-09 | 0 Comments Print PDF Smarter Strategies With Twittering becoming all the rage, conferences can't go wrong setting up Tweet streams.
Here are three good reasons to use hashtags to bring more value to Tweets. in Share 0 What can you learn from a Tweet stream? So, if I set up that tag would I only be adding to the Twitter static that threatens to overwhelm the universe? First, a hashtag can bring some order to the chaos. Second, a hashtag helps build a collective mind. Third, hashtags let you be in two places at the same time. Tweet streams when used correctly don't flood, but instead focus, us with information. Twitter Etiquette. This Wiki page is a compilation of posts, observations and opinions about Twitter user behavior and the developing Twitter culture.
Some ideas for contributing to this page: Twitter Users - Twitter an etiquette idea to your stream then cite/link to the post on this page.Bloggers - Blog about Twitter social observations. Link to your posted opinions on this Wiki page.Journalists - Write about the evolution of Twitter social norms. Link to your published articles from here.This is not a page to create rules and regulations. This page can develop into a good resource for newbies. General. How to tweet during a presentation. The latest academic research on Twitter and conferences addresses the issue of “snarky tweets” during presentations.
What should be the guidelines of what is acceptable and what is not? My own experience of tweeting during presentations at Presentation Camp LA highlighted for me the new challenges we face around Twitter etiquette at conferences. The research Tony McNeil reports on a survey of 103 people from a conference on learning technology in April 2009: More than just passing notes in class? Reflections on the twitter backchannel. More than a quarter of the conference twitterers said that they had sent dismissive or dissenting tweets during presentations. Some of these respondents claimed that their critical tweets were no different than what they would have been prepared to say face to face. Are snarky tweets a problem? However, it does seem that negative tweets can be a problem: Marieke Guy says: Peter Bromberg had this to say after a conference: What should be the guideline? How to Use Twitter – Tips for Bloggers. Ten Top Twitter Tips « OnRamp101. I’ve been Tweeting (making posts on Twitter) for some time now, both for personal learning/enjoyment and to engage in community conversation on behalf of several clients.
Twitter is a micro-blogging service, allowing users to send little 140-character messages out to “Followers,” exchanging tidbits of conversation and potentially exposing that conversation to a larger grid. Here are some hands-on tips to help you get started on Twitter, or add some insights if you’re already there. To really understand this, reg for Twitter and toggle between your profile page and this post…but you’ll get the general idea by just reading it. 1. Play with a friend. So You Want to Microblog (Twitter) With Your Students? So over the past couple of months I have been writing here about my use of Twitter in the classroom.
The first post garnered some much interest that I ended up writing a follow-up one. In both cases though I wrote primarily around the specific ways I used Twitter, or my reasons for doing so, without actually covering the how-to aspect. To be sure there are several tutorials (these two videos for instance), and an introduction from the Common Craft show, so what I thought I would cover here are the logistics of setting it up in an educational space. There are several ways to do this, I am just going to outline the one that I think is most effective. The key step in all of this is getting your students following each other, and making sure you are following your students.
Step One: Create a new Twitter account. Notice how “Eng205z” is following only one person, me the professor of the class. Step Two: Tell students ahead of time that they should bring their cell-phones to class.