Moving to Twitter Lists
Our team uses Twitter to curate the latest news from social media, new technology, and how it applies to higher education. And it’s great for keeping up with the top developments. But if you follow a lot of people it gets a tad unwieldy. So we’ve decided to leverage Twitter Lists to manage the workload more efficiently.
Understanding the Power of Twitter
If you’re a Twitter hater, you might want to read this. I was a hater myself only a few months back. “I don’t have anything to Tweet about and I don’t care what others are Tweeting about” was my mentality. Funny thing is, I had — and still have — so many friends who shared my belief about Twitter’s uselessness.
2010 Twitter Facts and Figures
This morning at Chirp, Twitter’s first Developers Conference, their CEO, Ev Williams revealed some interesting facts about Twitter. Some key takeaways are:
Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users (didn’t disclose how many of those users are active though)
Every day, 300,000 people register (also didn’t comment on the fact that the average life span of a user is less than a month)
Facebook Patents Newsfeed, Good Thing We’re on Platform
Good thing we’re on Facebook Platform. We’ll get to focus on our product success while others have to hire more lawyers :)
Top Links of the Week (1/15/10)
Hey hey! The subject in this week’s Student Affairs Chat was focused on engaging students through Twitter. The conclusion was that Facebook is more useful at this point for engaging students because that’s where they are. So, here are some links about Twitter and more for you to read and share!
Getting Started on Quora: A step-by-step guide
After last week’s Quora invite giveaway, dozens of our friends in the tech community and in higher ed have joined, and may still be trying to wrap their head around the tool. So, we’re doing two things to help you do that, as we’re that confident in this new question and answer community being a [...]
INVITE: Quora.com
One of the advantages of being plugged into the silicon valley tech scene, is gaining access to new technologies before the rest of the world does. Today, we got a test drive of Quora, a social question and answers forum that was developed by Facebook’s founding CTO, Adam D’Angelo. It’s lots of fun thanks to [...]
Twitter to Release ‘Contributors’ Feature
Today on the Twitter blog, Animitra Banerji from their product team wrote about the ‘contributors’ feature, which allows organizations to signify which individual from their team is tweeting. Already enabled by third-party applications such as CoTweet, the difference with Twitter’s “By” functionality is that it is native to Twitter.
10 Ways to Engage Faculty and Staff Through Facebook
Today on Twitter, a colleague of ours posted an inquiry on how to engage with faculty and staff using a Facebook page. At first, it seemed like an intuitive question, as Facebook is all about engagement. But on second thought, I realized that engaging faculty and staff is actually one of the more difficult tasks [...]
The Classroom Backchannel: Professors love the “chatter”
Purdue University recently unveiled Hotseat – a social networking-powered mobile Web application that allows students to provide feedback via Facebook, Twitter, and mobile devices during class and enables professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience.
NC State is Ahead of the Game on Twitter!
By now, many schools have joined the Twittersphere, using the tool to help broadcast campus news, post athletics updates, and even promote themselves to prospective students. It’s a great place to reach a wide audience, easily, and start some really important conversations.
Easily Build Your PLN and Your Knowledge
Personal Learning Networks, or PLNs, have been around forever. Originally, they were your family and friends, maybe people you worked with, but as the internet and web 2.0 tools have become nearly ubiquitous, PLNs can include tons of different communities – social networking sites like Facebook, blogs, Twitter, nings, social bookmarking tools, LinkedIn, and so many more. Basically, anyone that you [...]
Interview With Brad J. Ward
Brad J. Ward gave me time before he took off to Singapore to speak on Social Media. While Brad was an RA at the University of Illinois, Springfield, he started a website for the people on his wing. Soon, it turned into a marketing tool for the university and he was asked to work in the [...]
