The Twitter Tool I Can't Do Without As a teenager it is always good to earn some extra money to buy the clothes and gadgets that the allowance your parents provide just won’t stretch to. Peter, a friend of mine and I decided to look for some holiday work to top up our meager income. He had some contacts in a local steel plant that was offering some holiday shift work that paid well. The only challenge was that it was a 12 hour night shift. On taking the job I was given the task to sit on the other side of a machine that chopped large pieces of metal into smaller pieces of metal. Task two was stacking those small pieces of metal into piles on a pallet. This was brain numbing. I also had an insight about my future career path and it was “not” going to be in a steel fabrication factory! Twitter can be tedious When I started with Twitter it was great to see people start to retweet my content. The problem is that this can take a lot of time and it is tedious. So I had to find an answer to the question. It serves three purposes.
3 Great Twitter Tools for Teachers Twitter is definitely one of the best social media outlets for teachers professional development. I have written a lot on the role of Twitter in education and you can check Twitter for Teachers section here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning to learn more. However, and as I always reiterate, Twitter is only powerful if you use the right tools with it. 1- Twibes Twibes is a great tool to enhance students collaboration on Twitter. 2- Hark Hark is the world’s platform for sound bites, where anyone can discover, create, play and share their favorite audio moments anywhere on any device through digital embedding, or via social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Twijector is a free online service for webcasting tweets regarding various events.
6 Powerful Tools to Find Your Customers on Twitter Finding customers can involve attending networking events where everyone grabs their 100 business cards, puts on their best suit or “business hunting outfit” and then lurks at the back of the cocktail party ready to pounce after surveying their prey from a safe distance. You can always “hope” that the person you buttonhole will tolerate your witty, clever banter and that they will be interested in what you have to say about you, your company or your product. If you are lucky you may meet 2-3 people and it will be hit and miss whether they are interested. Now face to face business networking certainly still has its place but there are ways to make it more efficient and effective Find Your Prospects On-line There is a better way to do this and it involves technology and it enables you to take your stalking on-line that removes the uncomfortable tension of that cocktail party. Two Ways to Find your Target Keyword, Phrase or TagCategory 6 Twitter Tools 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Which one do you use?
Five-Minute Film Festival: Twitter in Education I think it's fair to say that Twitter can no longer be dismissed as a trivial passing fad. Though I had dabbled with a personal account, my entire opinion changed when I started my @VideoAmy account and dove in to the conversations educators were engaged in. While some people certainly do tweet about what they're having for breakfast, teachers, administrators, and educational organizations use Twitter in a whole different way -- making smart use of those 140 characters to share resources, wisdom, and inspiration. With the wealth of information out there, you have to cut through the noise a little to figure out how it will work best for you. PLN-building? Classroom discussions?
6 Tips on How to Use Twitter's New Vine Video App for Marketing Twitter is underwhelming at 140 characters. Any sane person would say “What do you do with that?” Why limit yourself to so few words when there is a dictionary and an encyclopedia available and limitless communication at your disposal. Its brevity is both an enigma and its charm. Keeping it simple is not without success precedent. One of the most successful children’s books of all time was written with only 50 words. Simple is good. The history of short and simple Just over twenty years ago on December 3, 1992 the message “Merry Christmas” was sent by software engineer Neil Papworth to the Vodafone director Richard Jarvis. That was the world’s first text message. Who would think that 20 years later that: 6 billion messages would be sent every day in the USA2.2 trillion texts would be sent every year in the USA8.6 trillion SMS messages would be created every year around the planetText messaging would be a $150 billion a year industry It is the messaging of choice for most teenagers. Why bother?
How to Herd Cats on Twitter If there is one thing you have to love about Twitter is that sometimes it seems like the “Wild West”. Untamed but with many opportunities. At other moments it feels like you are herding cats. A chaotic stream of tweets that have no apparent organisation, theme or filters. Wikipedia says this on herding cats: “An idiomatic saying that refers to an attempt to control or organize a class of entities which are uncontrollable or chaotic. Now doesn’t that sound like Twitter? It is trying to make sense of its chaos, embracing a jumble of jellyfish or throwing a net over a swarm of bees. Always fun, sometimes dangerous but with a lot of potential. Twitter has its own rhythm Facebook is filtered for family and friend fun. Well… what about Pinterest? And Instagram? A distraction in the form of an app that makes you stop what you are doing as you walk and travel. Twitter is a torrent of humanity. It’s quick and sometimes requires little thought and it shows. So how do you herd? It’s not needed. 100inShare
Twitter Introduces Lead Generation 'Cards' to Collect Leads From Tweets Hold on to your hats, marketers, because we’ve got some exciting news that’s going to transform the way you use Twitter Ads. A little background first: back in June, Twitter rolled out Twitter Cards, their name for the multimedia you sometimes see in expanded tweets on Twitter.com, Android, and iOS applications. Fast forward to today: Twitter released the Lead Generation Card, a new type of Twitter Card that will allow marketers to collect leads directly within the tweet. Here’s what it looks like, courtesy of the Twitter Advertising Blog: So cool, right? How to Create Twitter Lead Generation Cards Want to get set up a Lead Generation Card for one of your Promoted Tweets? 1) Set up a CRM end point integration. The first time you want to collect information through Twitter Cards, you're going to need to set up an end point integration, which will allow you keep track of your Twitter leads from Lead Generation Cards within your CRM. 2) Create a new Card. 3) Create content for the Card.
8 Great Twitter Tools That Will Get You Tweeting Like A Pro The reasons to join Twitter are plentiful. In fact, Jeff recently wrote a wonderful post on why it is often misunderstood and people aren’t jumping onto it earlier. The experiences I have had with Twitter were amazing and it was by far the most valuable Social Network for me to use. What I like best about Twitter is it’s open structure, not only for users, but also for developers. Here are the tools I use daily to make me more efficient and get you Tweeting like a Pro: 1. Whenever I am reading an article, I wasn’t quite sure, whether Tweeting it right now was a good idea. Pro Tip: What helps me a great deal is that Buffer provides me with analytics for each Tweet that I post. 2. As a matter of fact, a Tweet’s life is only very limited. Pro Tip: Twylah also offers you to send a “Power Tweet”, which will allow you to post a Tweet to a Twylah page. 3. Only recently the paid only MarketMeSuite has opened up its service to be free for everyone. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Over to you now. More Reading:
Twitter: Быстрый старт Using Twitter for Teachers' Professional Development I am actually engaged in an extensive review of the literature written on the use of Twitter as a Personal Learning Network ( PLN ).Twitter is the core topic of my MAEd thesis and I am trying to approach it from different perspectives : academic, social, and even personal ( for professional development ). Academically speaking, papers investigating the use of Twitter in the world of academia are still scarce and the empirical research done in this field is still very limited. From time to time I feature some of the resources I am actually reading and which I know will be of great interest to my readers here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.For instance, today I am sharing with you a treasure trove ( I really mean it ) of Twitter lists to subscribe with and follow to stay updated about the latest news, resources, links, researches, and many more according to your area of interest.