Nell Eckersley
USING TWITTER AT CONFERENCES & AS A PLN
VAILL | Workshop Block 5 | Thursday, July 11 | 1:30-3:00 PM
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Agenda
• Introductions•What is Twitter? • Retweets• The Power of the Hashtag • Interactions and Mentions• Shortening Links for Tweets (and other purposes)• Twitter at Conferences: How to find people to follow & how to
get people to follow you• Helpful tools• TweetChat
• Paper.Li
• TwtPoll
• TwitPic
LINCS Community
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https://community.lincs.ed.gov/group/technology-and-learning
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What Can You Say in 140 Characters?
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Retweets
•RT @Username
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The Power of the Hashtag
•#EdTech•#AdultEd•#VAILL
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Hashtags• Make the content of your Tweet easier to find for other people interested in the same topic
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Hashtags• Used as a rhetorical device
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Hashtags• Are not case sensitive, but using uppercase and lowercase letters can make them easier to read
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Hashtags• Anyone can make up a hashtag, but for it to be useful as a search term, others have to use it for the same consistent purpose
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Interactions and Mentions
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Anatomy of a Good Tweet
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Shortened URLS
• http://ipadeducators.ning.com/profiles/blogs/preparing-your-school-for-an (73 characters)• http://bit.ly/YZ8Jlk (20 characters)
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Shortening Links for your Tweets
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You can use BitLy to shorten URL’s without creating an account
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Customizing Your Shortened URL
But if you create an account on BitLy.com, you can customize your shortened URLS
Go from http://bit.ly/YZ8Jlk to http://bit.ly/iPadinEd
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AnalyticsWith an account you can also track how many times the URL you created has been clicked.
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QR Code
And with or without an account, you can make any of the shortened URLS into a QR Code by adding .qr at the end
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Finding People to Follow
• Most websites have a Twitter follow button• Search hashtags and words #AdultEd #VAILL•When you find one person to follow, see who they follow
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Search Twitter
• Search on http://Twitter.com for people, keywords or hashtags• Search on http://Search.Twitter.com for keywords or hashtags even if you don’t have a Twitter account• Track hashtags and tweet from http://tweetchat.com/
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Helping People to Find and Follow You• Use recognized hashtags (like the conference hashtag)• Tweet useful content (links are good)• Follow people (some follow back)• Retweet people (they might follow you)• Include your Twitter handle on your business card and your email signature
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http://paper.li/
http://paper.li/LACNYCnell/1320940472
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What to Do Right Now?
• Find five people to follow: @LACNYCnell, @NCLAdvocacy, @LINCS_ED for example• Search for people using #AdultEd and #VAILL• Search for your favorite hobby, writer, singer, actor
• Think of a Twitter name and some alternatives (short is better)• Create a Twitter account on Twitter.com• Retweet one tweet and create one of your own tweets Remember to use hashtags
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What to Do in the Next Few Weeks
• Spend 15 minutes on Twitter every (morning)• reading • retweeting• following new people
• Try HootSuite or receiving tweets as sms text messages
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Nell Eckersley•Twitter: @LACNYCNell•Email: [email protected] •http://www.scoop.it/t/twitter-in-adult-education
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