Comments on: Microblogging in HE

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:59:53 +0000

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By: drbexl

drbexl — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:53:56 +0000

Yes, I nearly gave up several times in the first 2-3 months for Twitter, then started to realise the value, especially in building an academic profile in my areas of interest (history, media studies & e-learning), and now plan to pass on some of my findings to interested academics, and we’ll see where it goes from there…

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Tweets that mention Microblogging in HE | Digital Fingerprint -- Topsy.com — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:28:39 +0000

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By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:23:37 +0000

Very true. Everyone I have ‘introduced’ to Twitter and micro-blogging has had the same information … you need to realise a purpose to the network. For me it is about education, pedagogy, and technology. For someone else it might be about business tax research. For someone else it could be forensic science and archaeology.

Each of us has a different reason for wanting information. Find yours and micro-blogging will make sense.