1. Educational uses of Jim Rible rible@sou.edu ppt at http://hanlib.sou.edu/jim

2. Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows you to post 140-character snippets (via text message, web or other media) and have them read at the site, fed into your Facebook status page, or delivered in a variety of other ways. – http://library.duke.edu/blogs/libraryhacks/2008/06/10/academic-uses-for- twitter/comment-page-1/

3. Usage Web, web apps, but use from cell phone probably most powerful mechanism. – Text messaging charges Tweets can have links – Pictures, blogs, web pages, Who needs 140 characters? Real time updates can be fascinating.

5. Sports Teams are an Obvious Use

9. Academic Events

11. I first saw the academic use in Time’s June 15, 2009 cover story. http://www.time.com/time/ business/article/0,8599,19 02604,00.html

12. Twitter Basics

13. http://twitter.com

14. Conventions Following Followers @reply @mention Links made “tiny” RT - retweet # hashtags – Like subject headings, #ashlandfire – Selective Twitter Status #fb (Facebook App)

16. Setting up Twitter for your class http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/so- you-want-to-microblog-twitter-with-your-students/

17. Twitter for Academia http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/tw itter-for-academia/