What's all the buzz about Twitter? This twitter crashcourse is designed to help you understand the usefulness of twitter and help you understand the strength of the platform for the SharePoint community. Demos use SharePoint as an example.

2. Name: Joel Oleson
Title: Sr. Tech Prod Mgr
Company: Quest Software

3. Who is SharePoint Joel?
8 year SharePoint
Veteran…
First SharePoint
Admin!
Sr. Technical Product
Manager - SharePoint
team Launch of
SharePoint Server 2007
Top IT SharePoint Blog
Blog: http://www.sharepointjoel.com
Twitter: @joeloleson

4. Audience Poll
Not Yet on Twitter?
More than 1 year experience?
Confused About Twitter?
Thinks it will change the way we live?

5. Twitter HR Test
Tough Trivia Question…
SharePoint Question…
Poll – How many answers and what kind of
answers will we get???

6. Twitter Parody
http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_twitters.htm

7. Session Overview
Interactive & Demo, Demo, Demo
Stories
Basic Terminology
Apps
Using twitter to do things…

8. Good Twitter Stories
Andrew Connell’s Class
Guy in Egypt
Earthquake
Hotel upgrade
SPSAT Boston
Mixed - Mumbai

9. What is Twitter?
140 Characters – Status (Or less even better!)
Is that it?
Isn’t it just noise? Distraction?
Why am I not getting anything out of it?
How can it benefit me in the SharePoint
Community
The Future of STATUS – Who wants to be a
millionaire

10. Terms
Tweet
RT - Retweet
Twitterverse
Twit
Follow/Following/Followers
Hashtag #spsdc #SharePoint
Replies/Mentions
DM – Direct Message
API
Favorites

11. Popular uses of twitter
Personal & Blog Marketing – twitterfeed.com
Feedback – Is my blog/site working? Like my last
post? (PR)
Referrals Direct Traffic
News (Not just friends) See - @breakingnews
Community – twibe.com/sharepoint
Live Coverage - Conferences
Customer Notification
Updates/Changes

12. Top 10 Twitter Clients
Client API Percent of Users
1 web 28.08 %
1 (1) web 28.08 % 3.42
TweetD
2 (2) 16.58 % 3.48
eck
2 TweetDeck
3 (3) Tweetie 9.46 % 2.82
16.58 % twitterf
4 (4) 5.29 % 2.77
eed
5 (5) twhirl 3.87 % 3.50
3 Tweetie 9.46 % TwitterF
6 (8) 3.05 % 2.27
on
7 (6) txt 2.44 % 1.54
Twitter
4 twitterfeed 5.29 %
8 (9) 1.93 % 2.63
Berry
mobile
9 (13) 1.83 % 1.78
web
5 twhirl HootSui
3.87 %
10 (16) 1.83 % 2.39
te
6 TwitterFon 3.05 %
7 txt 2.44 %
8 TwitterBerry 1.93 %
9 mobile web 1.83 %
10 HootSuite 1.83 %
http://twitstat.com/twitterclientusers.html

13. Apps
Clients
Twhirl – IM like
Tweetdeck – Outlook like
Mobile
Twitpic, URL Shortening tinyurl, bit.ly
Don’t start with twitter.com
http://mashable.com/2008/07/15/twhirl-
tweetdeck-comparison/

14. The Future of Technology
Twitter vs. Google
The Acquisition Question
The Money Question

15. Questions?

16. Technical Communities, Webcasts, Blogs, Chats & User Groups
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/default.mspx
Microsoft Learning and Certification
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/default.mspx
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) & TechNet
http://microsoft.com/msdn
http://microsoft.com/technet
Trial Software and Virtual Labs
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/trials/default.mspx

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