Slides used during the IT Brownbag session on using Twitter.
Fordham IT’s ’Brown Bag’ program began in June 2008. This program was designed specifically to spend time with fellow colleagues getting to know what they do on a daily basis. It has evolved into presentations on current projects, lesson learned from conferences, etc.
For more resources on using Twitter and Social media, visit Kristen's protopage:
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6. A couple of brief comments
and observations before starting….
7. Major types of media
Year of the First
Newspaper 1609
Title page of Carolus' Relation, the earliest newspaper
8. Major types of media
Year of the First
Newspaper 1609
Telephone 1876
Bell on the telephone in New York (calling Chicago) in 1892
9. Major types of media
Year of the First
Newspaper 1609
Telephone 1876
Television 1927
1928 GE "Octagon" Mechanical Television - 4" Screen
10. Major types of media
Year of the First
Newspaper 1609
Telephone 1876
Television 1927
Cellphone 1973
Martin Cooper, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award,
talks about the future of mobile phones
11. Established in 1996, the 15th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide.
12. Major types of media
Year of the First
Newspaper 1609
Telephone 1876
Berners-Lee at the TED 2009
Television 1927 Conference in Long Beach, California.
Cellphone 1973
This NeXT Computer was used
Internet* 1989 by Berners-Lee at CERN and
became the world's first web
server.
13. Major types of media
Year of the First Year of the first ∆ years it takes
1 million users/subscribers to reach 1 million users
Newspaper 1609 1890’s 281
Telephone 1876 1899 23
Television 1927 1948 21
Cellphone 1973 1986 13
Internet 1989 1989 <1
20. 3.6 Zetabytes a day,
would be equivalent
to over 70% of
Manhattan
21. 1983 IBM introduces the IBM PC/XT,
with 10 MB hard drive and 128 kB RAM,
for US$5000
22.
23. CrunchGear published that the
National Security Agency (NSA) is
forecasting it may need yottabytes
of storage to keep all of its
surveillance data by 2015.
53. Ok, that’s cool, but…
What are some
REAL
reasons why I would want to tweet
54. Share resources and links to events, news, and blog posts
Engagement through dialog
Post real-time updates
Develop a PLN
55. Examples
Follow experts in your field
“ We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human
history allows people to really maintain rich connections with
much larger numbers of people.
~ Pierre Omidyar
56. Examples
Follow experts in your field
Promote a cause and spread awareness
“ We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human
history allows people to really maintain rich connections with
much larger numbers of people.
~ Pierre Omidyar
57. Examples
Follow experts in your field
Promote a cause and spread awareness
Collaborate with people in your field
“ We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human
history allows people to really maintain rich connections with
much larger numbers of people.
~ Pierre Omidyar
58. Examples
Follow academic, literary or political figures
Follow experts in your field
Promote a cause and spread awareness
Collaborate with people in your field
“ We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human
history allows people to really maintain rich connections with
much larger numbers of people.
~ Pierre Omidyar
59. Examples
Follow academic, literary or political figures
Follow experts in your field
Follow conversations at conferences
Promote a cause and spread awareness
Collaborate with people in your field
“ We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human
history allows people to really maintain rich connections with
much larger numbers of people.
~ Pierre Omidyar
60. Examples
Follow academic, literary or political figures
Tweet questions for instant feedback
Follow experts in your field
Follow conversations at conferences
Promote a cause and spread awareness
Collaborate with people in your field
“ We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human
history allows people to really maintain rich connections with
much larger numbers of people.
~ Pierre Omidyar
61. Examples
Follow academic, literary or political figures
Tweet questions for instant feedback
Network with people in similar or interesting career paths
Follow experts in your field
Follow conversations at conferences
Promote a cause and spread awareness
Collaborate with people in your field
“ We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human
history allows people to really maintain rich connections with
much larger numbers of people.
~ Pierre Omidyar
62. Examples
Follow academic, literary or political figures
Tweet questions for instant feedback
Network with people in similar or interesting career paths
Follow experts in your field
Follow conversations at conferences
Promote a cause and spread awareness
Collaborate with people in your field
Connect and share with people who
care about what you care about
“ We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human
history allows people to really maintain rich connections with
much larger numbers of people.
~ Pierre Omidyar
72. Some
Twitter Basics
The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used
to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet.
It was created organically by Twitter
users as a way to categorize messages.