This document discusses how to use Twitter for professional development by connecting with others, finding relevant topics through hashtags, keeping updates brief with links and images, managing your followers and privacy settings, and following recommendations for etiquette and further resources. Key aspects include signing up for an account, building your professional learning network, engaging in conversations, and curating your feed for useful information.

1. Using Twitter for
professional
development

2. • Links
doing?
• Photos
• What are you
• 140 Characters
What is it?
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/keiya/3255575238/ (keiyac on Flickr)

3. Image source http://www.flickr.com/photos/motti/183678981/ (R. Motti on Flickr)

4. The Banal

5. The useful

6. Signing up: twitter.com
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7. Signing up: twitter.com
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8. Signing up: twitter.com
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9. Signing up: twitter.com
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10. Now what?
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11. Follow who I follow
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12. Building your PLN
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13. Your new profile page
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14. Your new profile page
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15. My Twitter home page

16. My profile page

17. Tweets that mention me

18. The ‘language’ of Twitter
•@

19. Conversations and talking
@name

20. • Sharing Retweets - RT
• Amplifying
• Esteeming
• ‘Liking’

21. Direct Messages (DM)
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22. Topics/hashtags
Image source http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/5941302441/ (mikecogh on Flickr)
• Apprentice #apprentice
• Question Time #bbcqt
• UKEdchat #ukedchat
• Conferences and events #ngflconf

23. Hashtagged topics

24. Hashtags
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25. Keeping it brief
How do you fit this:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hom
er+simpson+emoticon&rls=com.microsoft
:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GZAZ_en&redir_e
sc=&ei=6BonTsCHBpK5hAfs3aSKCg
…into a tweet?
http://bit.ly.com

26. Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/92919222@N00/45331822/ (atenon Flickr)

27. Managing things
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/3638834128/ (verbeeldingskr8 on Flickr)

28. Follower management
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingstongal/426298818/ (napaneegirl on Flickr)
• Check each new follower
• Look who people are talking to
• Look at lists
• Look who follows who

29. Privacy? Spam?
Subtle: No
thanks, don’t
want to hear
from you
Nuclear option!
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30. Privacy? Spam?
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31. Some golden rules
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonflood/1922343481/ (gordonflood.com on Flickr)

32. What else?
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33. My blog
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34. Class blog
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35. Further reading
http://ianaddison.net/?p=80
http://bit.ly/jycFKi
http://bit.ly/lUnLuy
My recommended first 50 or so people
to follow
https://twitter.com/#!/LearningSpy/my-50-favourite-
tweeps