Using Twitter for professional development

What is it?

• What are you doing?

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The useful

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Signing up: twitter.com

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Now what?

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Follow who I follow

Building your PLN

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Your new profile page

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Your new profile page

My Twitter home page

My profile page

Tweets that mention me

The ‘language’ of Twitter

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Conversations and talking

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

Direct Messages (DM)

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Topics/hashtags

• Apprentice #apprentice• Question Time #bbcqt• UKEdchat #ukedchat• Conferences and events #ngflconf

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Hashtags

Keeping it briefHow do you fit this:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=homer+simpson+emoticon&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GZAZ_en&redir_esc=&ei=6BonTsCHBpK5hAfs3aSKCg

…into a tweet?

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Follower management

• Check each new follower• Look who people are talking to• Look at lists• Look who follows who

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Privacy? Spam?

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Nuclear option!

Subtle: No thanks, don’t want to hear

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Privacy? Spam?

Some golden rules

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What else?

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My blog

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Class blog

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Further readinghttp://ianaddison.net/?p=80http://bit.ly/jycFKihttp://bit.ly/lUnLuy

My recommended first 50 or so people to follow

https://twitter.com/#!/LearningSpy/my-50-favourite-tweeps