15 Minute Showcase on Twitter

At the ACE conference I presented a 15  minute showcase titled, "Working Differently: Using Twitter to Connect and Converse".  We covered a lot of ground in 15 minutes, but still did not covered everything. This post is the outline of the presentation and provides references that I did not get a chance to share.

*Use Twitter to tell what you are doing in 140 characters or less. Reality is that you tell what you are thinking, reading, or questioning.

*Though it sounds dumb, Twitter is a non-intrusive, responsive way to

• Connect

• Converse

• Listen

*Use Twitter to share about yourself, your frustrations, and your funny stories. Though phatic messages are meaningless, they are the messages that overtime create connections with others. 

• scottfillmer Had a very nice dinner with my wife, relaxing a bit before it gets time to sleep

• jerobins got coffee and bkfast, done w/ feeds and email, well INBOX One ... gonna start that now

• jonathan4au Happy Friday the 13th, everyone! Let's hope the day doesn't live up to its reputation.

*Share helpful links. Examples of sharing links are: 

• jdorner: reading http://tinyurl.com/678clu

• ittotd For those not ready to use a feed reader or who want an email of feeds, RSS FWD will send feed updates to your email http://www.rssfwd.com/

• MarsPhoenix To celebrate 20K, I'm replaying landing night video from this site: http://tinyurl.com/58vy52 There's an awesome HD version avail here too.

*Use Twitter to ask a question. During the breakfast presentation, I was curious about something that the speaker said thus, I did the easiest and quickest thing -- I twittered the Question:  "I am curious. What's the 1st land-grant university?" Here is about one-half of the responses.

• jasonadamyoung @aafromaa - wikipedia gives you four choices http://tinyurl.com/q8pvt

• jdorner @aafromaa - Iowa Agricultural Colleg and Model Farm, the predecessor to Iowa State University http://tinyurl.com/q8pv

• vcverbeke @aafromaa Iowa State, 1864, from http://tinyurl.com/q8pvt

• bowerep @aafromaa there are several variable answers to your question. see http://snurl.com/2h77m looks like K-State may be considered the first.

• Tex3911 @aafromaa wow, I guess that's what I get for only checking wikipedia. Burn.

• sailingbo @aafromaa Good luck on your showcase! Apparently Mich State was "pioneer" land grant because the rest were then modeled after it. Semantics.

*Some organizations are using Twitter to disseminate information and to listen to their customers.

• AuburnU See photos from the AU study abroad program in Jordan. Aquatic, camels, & more: http://tinyurl.com/5nr97d

• RedCross map of disaster response ops http://tinyurl.com/66jbxa

• Birmingham_News More: www.al.com Plan for first commercial development at Grand River project in Leeds wins planning panel.

• zappos Just finished lunch w/ CEO of UPS talking about future partnership opportunities w/ Zappos. Great meeting, they are great partners of ours!

*Twitter has been used in emergency situations.

• People twittered about the Chinese earthquake about an hour before CNN and other media reported it.

• People reported about the California fires on Twitter.

• College student twitters himself out of an Egyptian jail

• Tornado hit the Georgia dome.

*Several applications are available to make Twitter easy, pervasive, but not intrusive. A few are:

• Twhirl

• Twitterific

• Twitbin

• Witty

• Instant Messaging

• SMS

• RSS Feeds

*Several other useful Twitter tools are available. My favorite tools are:

• Twemes (Hashtags) Use hashtags to tag or mark messages.

• Twitdir

• Summize to search tweets  -- ACE08 tweets

*Useful Twitter resources

• Several resources are available in the wiki page for NETC 1040 session

• Del.icio.us bookmarks on Twitter

• Getting more out of Twitter

• Twitter in Plain English 

 

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