TWITTER FOR PROFESSIONALS

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Professional Development session for XXXSupply Chain,May 2015Presented by Michelle Ockers (@michelleockers)

• Twitter Myths Busted•What is Twitter…• But why? What’s In It For Me?• Translating Twitter • Give Me a Bit of Twitter Action…•Who to Follow•Wish You Were Here…The Back Channel• You are “Here”…. Real Time Twitter Chats• Your Mission Should You Choose to Accept

What we will cover today…

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What do you think about Twitter?No-one is interested in

what I had for breakfast!

It’s a waste of my time!

It’s for young people!

I’ve got nothing to say!

I don’t know anyone on Twitter!

There’s no real purpose for it

BUSTED!

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What is Twitter?

Read More:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

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So what’s in it for me?

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Translating Twitter Profile - ComputerClick to Tweet

Profile

Twitter Feed

“Follow” Info

Box to search on:# hashtags@ usernames

Notifications and Messages

Select ‘Home’ to view Tweets of everyone you follow

Select to see Tweets you have ‘favourited’

Select to access more menu items

Phone Select to Tweet

Profile

Twitter Feed

“Follow” Info

Select to search on:# hashtags, @ user names

Notifications and Messages

Select to view Tweets of everyone you follow

Select to view your own Tweets

Select to see Tweets you have ‘favourited’

Select to access more menu items

• RT Retweet: Like what someone mentioned? Do you want to spread it? Retweet it.

• @ (The At symbol): I prefer to think about it as ‘To’ - @michelleockers is a direct reply to Michelle Ockers. The @ is used in the body of the tweet to mention another Twitter user. Your tweet will show up in thier Notifications tab. So someone has mentioned you in their tweet you get a ‘notification’ of it

• # Hashtag: A hash tag is a way to search for tweets on a particular topic. Eg. If you search on #supplychain you see a list of tweets for this topic. Through hash tags you can follow conferences, talks, events, live tweet chats for your professional development e.g. #TedxSydney #PKMchat #Leadershipchat

LETS SEE THESE CONTEXT

Getting started – retweet, reply and react

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Translating twitter thread

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Find the following:1. Hashtags2. @mentions3. Links to resources4. Retweets5. Where to click to see more

of a conversation

Give Me A Bit of Twitter Action

• Username - Use your real name or abbreviated version – keep it short• One email address that you can

access from your phone here (as you’ll need to confirm)• Create a one line bio• Brand your Twitter page• Sometime later, insert your

profile pic – no eggheads allowed!• Share your Twitter names out

loud and let’s follow each other• Send your first tweet and add

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•As a start...FOLLOW EACH OTHER! •And then…• @scmmag• @scinformer• @supplychain_fm• @Gartner_inc• @CocaColaAmatil• @CocaCola24x7• @coca_cola

Then look at who they follow, view their conversation threads and if you get value out of the conversation then follow them too!

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Who to Follow?

Wish you were here…

In this recent Association of Talent Development 2015 Conference (held in

USA), some people were tweeting, sharing links and photos of the

presentations…

THE BACKCHANNEL

#ATD2015 [Conference]

…and people globally were getting in on the conversation. The next best thing to

being there!

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• A Twitter chat is a real time chat that people join using a hashtag to discuss a topic of common interest. Someone organises the chat – setting topics and posting questions. • Here is an example from a recent

#PKMchat on Open Badges.• Search on internet for schedules of live

Twitter chats e.g. http://tweetreports.com/twitter-chat-schedule/. Search on the chat hashtag to see if it is still running and whether the content interests you.

You are "here"… Twitter Chats

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Your Mission – Should You Choose to Accept it….

• Complete your profile. Upload a profile photo or avatar.• Retweet something related to your professional interests• Reply to a tweet to keep the conversation going• Follow someone new in your field• Tweet about what you’re working on. Maybe add a pic. Use the hashtag #lunchlearn101