3. WHAT WE WILL COVER TODAY…
• Twitter Myths Busted
• What is Twitter…
• But why? What‟s In It For Me?
• Translating Twitter
• Give Me a Bit of Twitter Action…
• Follow Me…Follow You… Follow Who…
• Wish You Were Here…The Back Channel
• Your Mission Should You Choose to Accept
4. A WARM UP ACTIVITY…
Nice to meet
you in person
finally!
5. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TWITTER?
No-one is I’ve got nothing
interested in what I to say!
had for breakfast!
I don’t know
It’s a waste of my anyone on Twitter!
time!
It’s for young
people! There’s no real
purpose for it
6. WHAT IS TWITTER…
Read More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
Graphic: Google Images – labelled for reuse
7. SO WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
“Legend in her own Lunchbox”
My Personal Story about Twitter
http://youtu.be/vzd7q0BkBN8
Image by umjanedoan http://www.flickr.com/photos/umjanedoan/497411169/
9. BUILDING A VOICE – RETWEET, REPLY AND REACT
• # Hashtag
• A hash tag is a way to search for tweets on a particular topic. Eg. If you search on
#litigation you see a list of tweets for this topic
• Through hash tags you can follow conferences, talks, events, live tweet chats for
your professional development eg #TedXMelb #LearnX #CPA12
• @ (The At symbol)
• I prefer to think about it as „To‟ - @activatelearn is a direct reply to ActivateLearn (ie
– me!)
• RT
• Retweet: Like what someone mentioned? Do you want to spread it? Retweet it.
• Mention
• The @ is mentioned in the body of the tweet and shows up in your Mention tab. So
someone has mentioned you in their tweet and you get a „notification‟ of it…
LET’S SEE THESE IN CONTEXT…
12. GIVE ME A BIT
OF TWITTER
ACTION
• Use your real name
(or other name)
• One email address
that you can access
from your phone
here (as you‟ll need
to confirm)
• Create a one line
bio
• Brand your Twitter
page
• Sometime later,
insert your profile
pic – no eggheads
allowed!
• Share your Twitter
names out loud and
let‟s follow each
other
• Send your first
tweet and add
#myfirsttweet
13. FOLLOW ME…FOLLOW YOU…FOLLOW WHO?
As a start...FOLLOW EACH OTHER!
And then…
• @C4LPT – Jane Hart
• @hjarche – Harold Jarche
• @charlesjennings – Charles Jennings
• @jaycross – Jay Cross
• @DonaldClark – Donald Clark
• @Quinnovator – Clark Quinn
• @LrnDDave – David Kelly
Then look at who they follow, view their conversation threads and
if you get value out of the conversation then follow them too!
14. WISH YOU WERE
HERE…
In this recent Learning
Technologies Conference
UK, some people were
tweeting, sharing links and
photos of the
presentations…
THE BACKCHANNEL
#LTUK13 [Conference]
#T4S3 [Session Number]
…and people globally were
getting in on the
conversation. It was
like…you were there!
15. “I am a huge proponent of backchannel learning.
There are many conferences I would love to be
able to attend, but my budget can only
accommodate one or two each year. The
backchannel is an excellent resource for learning
from a conference or event that you are unable to
attend in-person.
I find collecting and reviewing backchannel
resources to be a valuable learning experience for
me, even when I am attending a conference in
person. Sharing these collections on this blog has
shown that others find value in the collections as
well”
- David Kelly Misadventures in Learning
Image by debs http://www.flickr.com/photos/debschultz/528230215//
16. YOUR CHALLENGE SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT
IT…
• Change your egg head profile with a photo or avatar
• Participate in a #lrnchat this Friday (or any Friday) at 11:00am for one
hour
• Retweet something related to Learning and Development
• Respond to a tweet to keep conversation going
• Follow someone new in Learning & Development
• Respond to someone #myfirsttweet and welcome them to Twitter
• Tweet (or take a pic) the world what you‟re working on (don‟t forget the
hash tag #lunchlearn101)
• Explore David Kelly‟s blog: Misadventures in Learning >Curated
Backchannels
