1. Assignment 5 Lisa Block HC 205 Fall 2007

2. How is Twitter different than normal blogging?

3. Twitter

4. Mobile Connectivity update from anywhere, anytime

5. What’s On Your Mind where are you and what are you thinking about at any given moment

6. Quicker shorter messages are quicker to create

7. Microblogging use more often, only 140 characters per tweet

8. Following; see what your friends are doing

9. Blogging

10. More Formal receive better response with full sentences and well thought out structure

11. Takes More Time need more time to formulate ideas and decide how to present them

12. Better Organized (hopefully) well thought out and presented

13. More Information no limit to characters allowed includes details

14. How difficult was it to learn to use both Twitter and YouTube or SlideShare?

15. Simple Directions

16. Previous Knowledge made it easy to sign up and use accounts

17. Easy to Connect just agree to following, or search for someone you would like to follow

18. What community aspects of both sites exist?

19. Following (Twitter) adding friends to see what they are doing/thinking Contacts (SlideShare) More like a professional relationship than a personal one

20. Search by Shared Interest

21. Personal Information (T) what you are doing, how you are feeling, etc. Educational Information (SS) give out information on a topic

22. Favourites whether it be an update (T) or a presentation (SS)

23. Privacy control who sees your entries

24. Did you use any of these community aspects? What were your thoughts if you did?

25. Followed Friends easy for me to waste time (and see what everyone else was up to on one page)

26. Information posted about 15 tweets, it was entertaining and slightly addictive. plan to add a slideshow on slideshare, seems like it would be more fun on a more personal topic.

27. The End Random Note: Looking at my Twitter account I realized 10/17 of my Tweets mentioned gymnastics in some way… I need a less time intensive sport.