Twitterineducation. Yammer. Micromobs. Why I Love Twitter by problogger. Twitter Helps with Reporting, Filtering the News. Last May on MediaShift, we wrote a series of articles about a new microblogging tool called Twitter, which was just beginning to gain visibility among the digerati. At that time, many bloggers were still on the fence as to how useful the service really was. Many thought it was a waste of time. Others just didn’t understand if it really had any practical uses in daily life. In my post, I wrote about the potential uses for Twitter in the future, such as helping out in emergency situations or facilitating co-working for remote teams. One year later, I’ve found that Twitter has gone above and beyond my original expectations in terms of usefulness, allowing me to obtain and share information efficiently.
But Twitter has also proven to be a tool that should be used with caution lest it become the opposite of useful: a time suck. Last year, I was skeptical about Twitter becoming more than just something I used for fun, or perhaps to meet a few colleagues. More Useful Than RSS? Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org.
By Umair Haque | 9:26 AM June 5, 2009 Welcome to Twittermania. First it was Oprah — now Ev and Biz are on the cover of Time. Is the hype justified? Yup: Twitter isn’t just changing how we communicate — it is changing how we innovate. Twitter is one of the world’s most radical management innovators. It’s revolutionary because it brings 21st Century DNA roaring raucously to life: it is a living expression of the new principles of organization and management we’ve been discussing. Here are Twitter’s ten rules for radical innovators (which have, just maybe, had a bit of influence when it comes to Twitter). 1. They’re as wrong as Dubya was about Iraq. 2. What are the new economies that Twitter unlocks? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live. Using micro-blogging (Twitter) in your teaching and learning: An introductory guide. There's an art to writing on Facebook or Twitter -- really.
By Maria Puente, USA TODAY Not so long ago, people used to keep diaries to record their quotidian doings — privately, of course. Now people keep and accounts, updating their status daily, hourly, even minute-by-minute, and almost nothing is private. Worse, the modern status update is not always compelling reading. Feeding the cat Watching TV Eating a tuna sandwich To be fair, even great diarists of the past had bad days: Samuel Pepys, the Englishman whose journals clarified a big chunk of the 17th century for historians, sometimes had nothing more imaginative to say than: And so to bed.
Surely we could do better 350 years later? "We all have to go to status-update charm school," jokes Hal Niedzviecki, author of The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, who joined a slew of online social networks to investigate how they are changing the definition of privacy. Never mind poetics. Mundane to clever Making a connection So what makes a good status update? Australian Twitter use hits all-time high: News - Communications.
Australian use of the Twitter micro-blogging service hit an all-time high for the week ending 10 January 2009, as a number of factors contributed to its growth. "Visits to Twitter had a short-term dip between September 2008 and November 2008, but have steadily climbed again to January 2009, and were at an all-time high for the week ending 10 January 2009," Hitwise senior analyst Sandra Hanchard wrote on her blog today. (Credit: Hitwise) She added that Twitter had maintained its "phenomenal" yearly growth rate, increasing year-on-year in web visits by 517.9 per cent for the week ending 10 January 2009, compared with the same week in 2008.
Hanchard, who has some 130 followers on her own Twitter page, said Twitter's recent growth was due to a resurgence in referrals from Facebook, which was also doing well in Australia. She also suspected that increased visits to Twitter this week had been prompted by Australians returning to the workplace. Stephen Collins(Credit: acidlabs) “Where Do You Learn?”: Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development (EDUCAUSE Quarterly. 5 Twitter Applications and Tools that Made Me a Better Twitter User in 2008. Which Twitter Applications have you valued the most in 2008? Here’s a quick list of 5 that have enhanced my own use of Twitter this year and why: 1. TweetDeck TweetDeck has become my primary Desktop Twitter client over the last 6 months of the year and has quite literally changed the way that I Tweet on a number of levels. One of the biggest impacts that it has had is in the way that it builds ‘groups’ into my twitter workflow. Groups enable you to select any number of Twitter users to follow in a special window.
Also powerful in TweetDeck is the ‘Search’ feature which enables you to track keywords and who is using them right from within your Twitter Client. I’m also a big user of TwitScoop so having the ability to have it included in a window within the client is handy too. I guess as I think about it – the reason I like TweetDeck is that it enables me to use a variety of tools that could be accessed by a variety of services – all within the one client. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3.