twitter: changing the world ... 140 characters at a time

Changingthe world …140 charactersat a time

Bill Sheridan, CAEThe Business Learning Institute

Vail ResortsMarch 30, 2011

Blogging in miniature.

Twitter is the most popular example.

Great for quick-hitting, real-time alerts, announcements.

#J_J_HelpMe

Twitter in the classroom

… for extra credit!

“The concept is to have students thinking about accounting all the time!”

Dr. Steven Hornik, University of Central Florida

Twitter.com/acg2021

Twitter.com/shornik

My point is this:

Resources: Twitter: twitter.com TweetDeck: www.tweetdeck.com Twhirl: www.twhirl.org HootSuite: hootsuite.com Seesmic: seesmic.com Tweetchat: tweetchat.com Twitter mobile: twitter.com/download

Videos:

“Twitter in Plain English,” from CommonCraft bit.ly/eFtxnh “How To use Twitter for Business (Part 1 of 3: 'Listening'),” from AmazingVideoTours

bit.ly/g2xPgn “How To use Twitter for Business (Part 2 of 3: Engaging'),” from AmazingVideoTours

bit.ly/f0l3G8 “How To use Twitter for Business (Part 3 of 3: Tweeting'),” from AmazingVideoTours

bit.ly/hItoqb

Follow me at …

Twitter.com/BillSheridan