Mini Pd. Social Networking And Microblogging

Social Networking and Microblogging

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Awesome for communicating with students.
They are more likely to read about your events or activities via Facebookinstead of student email
Post photos, notes, events, status updates, websites
Add people as “friends”
Use the APA Citation tool: CiteMe

Great for music
It was mainstream, but now Facebook is more popular
Still very popular in inner-city
Less privacy options
Lots of advertisements whereas Facebook has creative way of using ads.

Job related
Layout is like a resume
Social networking for professionals
You can give and receive job recommendations within the platform
Great for keeping in touch with people that you meet at conferences, networking
Employers may search you on LinkedIn.

MICROBLOGGING
Blogging with shortened text
Brief text updates submitted by email, text message, website

http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter

Y use Twitter?
Get advice and suggestions from colleagues
Why recreate the wheel?
Share your accomplishments, failures, ideas, etc.
Keep up with the current trends
Keep in touch with friends/family by following their tweets

140 Characters of fun
You are limited, so be brief and use abbreviations
Use shortened links
How? www.tinyurl.com, www.moourl.com
Use abbreviations similar to text lingo to fit long statements into 140 characters

Following v. Followers

Following
When I follow people, I am able to see every tweet that they post
It streams into my twitter platform so I see all posts submitted by people that I follow.
Like this…

Followers
Just because you follow someone does not mean that they are seeing your tweets
They’d have to follow you in return
You are alerted that someone is following you by email notification
You can set your profile to private to restrict who can follow you

Ways to use Twitter with your class
Use a hashtaglike #OD2009 for Organizational Development or #Drugs&Crime for a Drugs and Crime class.
Put hashtags at the end of each tweet
Hashtags can be searched to follow a conversation at http://search.twitter.com

Sharing information with participating students
Keep students engaged all week (not just during class period)
Share links to web pages
Share new trends and hot topics in the field

Participation points?
Some students flourish online and do poorly in the in-class discussion
Encourage them to twitter
At the end of the quarter, have the students do a quick write-up on their experiences in Twitter

Business aspects
Twitter is viral marketing and branding, but it can spiral out of control
Important for business students to understand
Domino’s video
Motrin Mom’s video
Reaction
Corporations need to track their name in Twitter. Put out fires.

Twitter vocab
Hashtags (already covered)
Retweets
Direct messages
Fail Whale

Retweet
Repeating someone’s tweet
If you want to share a posted link with all of your followers
Copy and paste the tweet, and put “Retweet” or “RT” in front.

Direct Message
Typically referred to as DM
Still only 140 characters
If you want to have a private conversation with a twitter user, you can send them a DM

Fail whale

Collaborative tool
Twitter is awesome for bouncing ideas..
I said:
http://twitter.com/amylibrarian

…and these are the suggestions that I received..

Questions? Comments?
Contact Your librarian for assistance:
Amy.springer@rasmussen.edu
651-259-8118

Just for fun…