Personal/Professional Use of Twitter

“Twitter makes me smarter, faster and more efficient”

- Evan Williams

Personal Use of Twitter•Follow smart people / industry leaders•@wefollow•Connect locally (news,people,events)•Social conversation•Networking•Learn – The News comes to you.•Ask questions / Get answers•Track key words (hashtags.org/tweetdeck)•Scoops – product reviews, unfiltered news,links•Inbox ZERO – Twitter helps• Private conversations – DM’s

Professional Use of Twitter•Product support •Product updates, bugs, downtimes•Track tags related to job - #ecubb , #ecu, #blackboard9•Answer questions•Hire students•Connect w/ other universities•Connect w/ colleagues•Twitter in the classroom

Tools

•Tweetdeck - http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/•Tweetgrid - http://tweetgrid.com/•TwitterLocal – Http://twitterlocal.net•Twhirl – http://twhirl.org•Itouch apps – Twitterrific,Twittelator,Twitfire

Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck

Tweetgrid

TwitterLocal

TWhirl

Contact Information

Matt Longmclgreenville@yahoo.comtwitter.com/mclgreenvilletwitter.com/ECU_Bb_Info