Toolkit Tools Series: Twitter in 30 minutes Beth Filar Williams, Coordinator of Library Services for Online &Distance Education Liane Elias, Graduate Student.

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Toolkit Tools Series: Twitter in 30 minutes Beth Filar Williams, Coordinator of Library Services for Online &Distance Education Liane Elias, Graduate Student in Library & Information Studies at UNCG Cheryl Cross, Library Technology Support Analyst Presented by UNCG Libraries, 10/21/11

A.I have an account & tweet on occasion B.I have an account… I think? C.Haven’t joined up yet, convince me! D.Um, what’s a tweet? POLL: do you tweet?

What is Twitter? ….an real-time information network made up of 140-character messages called Tweets

Twitter History /Stats  Created in March 2006 – launched in July  Company based in San Francisco  200 million users as of 2011  200 million tweets  over 1.6 billion search queries/day

Images from Twitter.com help pages

Mobile Options

Pointless babble – 40% Conversational – 38% Pass-along value – 9% Self-promotion – 6% Spam – 4% News – 4% Twitter usage?

Twitter usage con’t

habits-and-trends-of-todays-college-faculty/

 How familiar are you with Twitter Special Report: Twitter in Higher Education 2010:Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s College?

 Twitter has been a tremendously useful tool for me in connecting with other professors, discovering new sources and new information, teaching students about some of the dynamics of not just Twitter but real-time information sharing, and for building and continuing relationships made in real life.  It's great to be able to send a quick thought to everyone & receive reactions and connect with so many people at once--family, friends, and friends-to-be.  I've reached more people and have had more exposure as an academic tweeting and blogging about higher ed than I have ever with my more tradition research and publishing. …as a networking and professional development tool

 Class Chatter/Classroom Community  Get a Sense of the World  Track a Word (#awordtofollow)  Track a Conference (#aconferencename)  Instant Feedback  Follow professionals (  Grammar, rule based writing, writing assignments  Public notepad Twitter in Academia From:

A.Already using it but now I will more effectively B.Yes! C.Maybe D.Still not convinced it’s for me. POLL: Will you try Twitter now?

Beth Filar Williams, DE Librarian, Liane Elias, LIS Grad Student, Q &A?