Twitter Workshop for SUNY New Paltz Faculty

What’s this Twitter business? Rachel Reuben Director of Web Communication & Strategic Projects

What is Twitter?
Like text messaging & instant messaging
140 characters at a time
Status updates, conversations, breaking news (primarily first hand accounts)
Usernames: @__________
Ex. @newpaltz

Twitter Lingo
Verb: tweet
followers
@: Replies
DM: Direct messages
RT: Re-tweet
#: Hash tag

How to tweet
Twitter.com
Apps for your computer
TweetDeck, twirl
Apps for your BlackBerry/iPhone
TwitterBerry, TinyTwitter, TwitterFon, Tweetie
Text messages on your cell

Companies small & large
Transforming/supplementing customer service. See:
@jetblue
@comcastcares
@homedepot
@zappos
@amazondeals

Build a network
It’s only as good or as useful as the network you build
start following people with similar interests
converse with them
see who they follow
rinse & repeat

What should I tweet?
Not what you had for breakfast
Not about your latest stomach ailment
A book/article you’re reading
Research you’re doing
A conference you’re going to
Find others interesting in similar topics/research areas

Supplement course material
“ It was the single thing that changed the classroom dynamics more than anything I’ve ever done teaching.”
David Parry, assistant professor of Emerging Media and Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas

Supplement course material
Tweet links to additional readings on the Web that relate to subject matter – use course hashtag (#BUS555)
http://twitter.com/VargasNWMktg/statuses/1222721251
Twitter for Academia
Pose a question, share results w/ students

Some prof’s on Twitter
@digidemocracy
@greenhow
@vargasl
@barbaranixon
@BudGibson
@DR4Ward
@rdfrench
@prprof_mv
@hrheingold
@academicdave
@sbjet
@trezzaf58
Twitter Professors: 18 People to Follow for a Real Time Education

New Paltz on Twitter
@newpaltz
@nphawks
@npwsoccer
@nprhsa
@npnrhh

@rachelreuben
Questions?

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Twitter Workshop for SUNY New Paltz Faculty

by Rachel Reuben on Mar 11, 2009

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