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Digital Dates: Making the most of Twitter
Michelle Schneider,
Academic Skills Development Officer, Skills@Library.
Today’s session
Twitter & You
• Being a savvy Tweeter from the start
Twitter in Learning & Teaching
• From a staff perspective
• From a student perspective
Twitter and employability
• Get a career
• In a career
What is it?
Twitter is a Web 2.0 social networking tool that allows users to send and receive short messages known as tweets.
Each Tweet is140 characters & can include videos, photos and links
Twitter is a conversation!
Some interesting stats…
Over
140 million
active Twitter accounts
Over
175 million
Tweets a day
About
1 million
accounts added daily!
Statistics from 2012, All Twitter: http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-stats-2012_b30967
By following other people and sources you are able to build
up an instant, personalized Twitter feed that meets your full range of interests, both academic and personal.
(LSE Public Policy Group 2011)
It's also a way to engage, connect, collaborate and network with others that share your personal, professional and academic interests
(Me 2013)
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2. Follow and get followed by the right people!
Follow people you are interested in and you want to be followed by!
See who the people you follow,
follow!
Talk to people! (even if they’re not
following you). Retweet & reply!
3.Be interesting and be yourself…to a point
SMITH, E. 2013. Be good at social media without trying: A guide for people who don’t have all day to post stuff . [online]. [Accessed 14 March 2013]. Available from: http://edudemic.com/2013/02/the-busy-persons-guide-to-social-media/
Consider balancing the types of Tweets with a ratio of posts
addressing: (1) What you do; (2) What you love; and (3) Who you
are. (Smith, E. 2013).
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4. Use the power of the hashtag #• A great way to start or engage in conversation- you don’t have to follow or be followed by
people in the conversation• Opens you up to a much wider audience
Summarise discussions into a report if you want a permanent record…
Summarised into a report: http://www.tweetcategory.com/
5. Think about how you are presenting yourself
• Consider whether you want two separate accounts• Do you want to make your personal account private?
Personal and Professional
• Think about how you could be perceived by employers, they check social media accounts!
• Don’t criticise/abuse lecturers, students, employers, the University
Online persona and reputation
• Your Tweets could potentially be seen by millions of people if you use hashtags/are Retweeted
• Consider the implications of a private account
Privacy settings
• Who are you aiming your Tweets at?• Think about tone as well as content
Know your audience
Learning and teaching
Staff
Student
BothSet up a module account e.g. SOEE2212
Set weekly discussion topics #usehashtags
Ask students to sum up a short article or chapter
Follow your modules
Ask questions and share ideas with other students
Use in student projects and set up a project hashtag
Tweet links to your content-articles etc/ Tweet links to other peoples’ content.
Develop skills: quick evaluation and selection skills; succinct writing skills
Share thoughts/ideas/ask questions
Follow relevant organisations and keep up-to-date in your field
1h
2h
3h
4h
5h
Follow your Uni/School/ Service e.g. @UniversityLeeds
4hFollow academic journals for new articles
2hTrack or Tweet from conferences (using hashtags)Use backchannel communication
in lectures
Ideas and inspiration
Academic Excellence in 140 Characters: http://bit.ly/aF4VLq
Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities (LSE):http://bit.ly/n07Wvb (also covers setting up an account & terminology)
Spotlight on Social Media (SDDU): http://bit.ly/Yyclfs
7 things you should know about backchannel communication:http://bit.ly/ceGz1z
Study skills connected (book for students about using technology to support Your studies, includes a section on Twitter): EBL Level 8, Skills B-5 COT
Careers workshops for students: http://careerweb.leeds.ac.uk/
Policies and guidance
University policies
Communications: http://comms.leeds.ac.uk/
Social media code of practice and guides coming soon! Including:• General social media guidance• Context guides: student
education, research • Platform guides (including
Twitter)
Help and guidance
Twitter help centre:https://support.twitter.com/
Skills@Library: http://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-learning-in-a-digital-age
Careers centre:http://careerweb.leeds.ac.uk/
SDDU: http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/