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Setting Up a Twitter Account Feb 2012 by

Workshop that I’m running this afternoon: Twitter for COFE on Prezi by

This afternoon I’m teaching my Twitter course, and this morning Twitter adds a couple of new features… so let’s highlight them here. The section ‘Mentions’ has been replaced with your user name (probably more intuitive anyway), but also highlights some other new activities, of which I can see at present who has recently followed me [...]

This morning’s second session: Twitter for MAARIFA on Prezi by

This paper, written by Dr David Rush and Dr Bex Lewis, was accepted (see abstract), and will shortly be presented on this panel. Getting in on the Twitter Action? Using Social Media to Build Your Professional Network on Prezi     by

The social network as news source News of Amy Winehouse’s tragic death hit Twitter 20 minutes after she was found. Stylist profiles its rise from social network to ground-breaking news source. Where were you when you heard the news about Amy Winehouse? Millions of us were on Twitter. Forty minutes before the story was reported on mainstream news websites [...]

These worksheets are available under a Creative Commons Licence, in that you can use/distribute the material freely , but Digital Fingerprint must be attributed, whether used as is/adapted. An overview of Social Media Tools (June 2011) Setting up a Twitter account (June 2011) Setting up a Facebook account (June 2011) Setting up a Facebook Like page [...]

Sometimes change has to happen slowly, to allow people to accustom themselves to things! I am very much not for doing things “the way we’ve always done it” because that’s “the way we’ve always done it”, but also not in “change for changes sake”. The Academy This year is my fourth at the Church and [...]

Themes: Broad Tents & Strange Bedfellows; Making Things Happen (ALTC11) This paper has been accepted. This paper reports on attempts by a digital steward (Wenger, White and Smith 2009) within a university to increase her expertise in the deployment of social media for education (Conole and Alevizo 2010), through collaboration by means of social media [...]

Dick Costolo was in full flow. The chief executive of Twitter – installed after a brief power struggle in the autumn of 2010 – was outlining his unifying vision for the company’s product at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. “Our mission,” he said, “is to instantly connect people everywhere to what’s most [...]