TWITTER FOR INFORMATION

PROFESSIONALS Dr. Katrin Weller @kwelle weller@uni-duesseldorf.de

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10 Tips for Efficient Use of Microblogging Online Information 2011

London

01. December 2011

Twitter

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Networking & Communicating

Observing & Monitoring

Broadcasting & Reporting

Organising & Sharing

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Who needs it, who doesn‘t?

Networking & Communicating

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Tip 1 5

Care for your profile

Tip 2 6

It‘s not all about the

numbers

It‘s not all about the numbers… 7

Tweetstats.com

Klout

Twitalyzer

Twittercounter

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Monitoring & Observing

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Tip 3 9

Don‘t be afraid of

missing something

Tip 4 10

Use tools for keeping

track of what‘s

happening

Tweetdeck 11

Other Tools 12

Co-tweeting * follower recommendation * automatic tweets *

twitterwalls * data visualization * URL monitoring * follower

visualization * communities * hashtag meanings * trends

Tip 5: Searching 13

Tip 6: Archiving 14

Via RSS feed (e.g. google reader, thunderbird)

Your Twapperkeeper

Broadcasting & Reporting

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Tip 7 16

Be yourself – but also

imagine your audience

Tip 8 17

Respect the etiquette

Organising & Sharing

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Tip 9 19

Make your tweets

„sharable“

Finally: don‘t expect miracles 20

Thank you for your attention!

Katrin Weller

Dept. of Information Science

Heinrich-Heine-University

Düsseldorf

e-mail: weller@uni-duesseldorf.de

Twitter: @kwelle

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