Using Twitter at Conferences and as a Personal Learning Network

1. USING TWITTER
AT CONFERENCES
& AS A PLN
Nell Eckersley
CO AB E Session #B 203 | Monday, Mar c h 2 5, 2013 | 10:30 AM - 11:4 5 AM

2. Agenda
•What is Twitter?
•The Power of the Hashtag
•Interactions, Mentions and Retweets
•Shortening Links for Tweets (and other
purposes)
•TweetChat
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3. Wiffiti
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4. https://twitter.com/
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5. What Can You Say in 140 Characters?
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6. Retweets
•RT @Username
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7. Hashtags
• #COABE13
• #AdultEd
• #EdTech
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8. Hashtags
• Make the content of your
Tweet easier to find for
other people interested in
the same topic
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9. Hashtags
• Used as a rhetorical device
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10. Hashtags
• Are not case sensitive,
but using uppercase and
lowercase letters can
make them easier to read
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11. Hashtags
• Anyone can make up a
hashtag, but for it to
be useful as a search
term, others have to
use it for the same
consistent purpose
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12. Mentions
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13. Anatomy of a Good Tweet
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14. Exercise
•Go to https://twitter.com/search
•Type #COABE13 into the search bar
•What other Hashtags are included?
•Click on a Mention. Would you follow this
person?
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15. Shortened URLS
• http://ipadeducators.ning.com/profiles/blogs/preparing-your-
school-for-an (73 characters)
• http://bit.ly/YZ8Jlk (20 characters)
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16. Shortening Links for your Tweets
You can use BitLy to shorten URL’s without creating an account
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17. Customizing Your Shortened URL
But if you create an account on BitLy.com, you can customize your
shortened URLS
Go from http://bit.ly/YZ8Jlk to http://bit.ly/iPadinEd
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18. Analytics
With an account
you can also
track how
many times the
URL you
created has
been clicked.
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19. QR Code
And with or without an account,
you can make any of the
shortened URLS into a QR Code
by adding .qr at the end
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20. Finding People to Follow
• Most websites have a Twitter follow button
• Search hashtags and words #AdultEd #COABE13
• When you find one person to follow, see who they follow
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21. Search Twitter
• Search on http://Twitter.com for people, keywords or hashtags
• Search on http://Search.Twitter.com for keywords or hashtags
even if you don’t have a Twitter account
• Track hashtags and tweet from http://tweetchat.com/
• Tweets and Hashtags are ephemeral and are difficult to access
after a period of time. Use other tools to help “save” Tweets
• Paperli http://paper.li/
• TweetDoc http://www.tweetdoc.org/
• http://www.tweetarchivist.com/NCLAdvocacy/24
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22. Paperli
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23. http://tweetchat.com/
• TweetChat lets
you follow a
specific hashtag
in real time-even
if you don’t have
a Twitter
account.
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24. http://twtpoll.com
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25. http://twitpic.com
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26. https://support.twitter.com/articles/64986-how-to-report-spam-on-twitter#
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27. What to do right now?
• Create a Twitter account on Twitter.com
• Follow three people
• @LACNYCnell, @NCLAdvocacy, @COABEnews
• Search for people using #AdultEd and #COABE13
• Search for your favorite hobby, writer, singer, actor
• Retweet one tweet and create one of your own tweets
Remember to use hashtags
• Join in the #AdultEd Twitter Town Hall With Assistant
Secretary Brenda Dann-Messier on Tuesday March 26, 9:15
AM - 10:30 AM
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28. What to do in the next few weeks
•Spend 15 minutes on Twitter every morning
•reading
•retweeting
•following new people
•Try TweetDeck or receiving tweets as sms
text messages
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29. Nell Eckersley
• Twitter: @LACNYCNell
• Email: NellE@LACNYC.org
• http://www.scoop.it/t/twitter-in-adult-education
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30. COABE Evaluation
• http://bit.ly/COABE13Eval
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