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Welcome! If you’ve arrived early. ...don’t forget to do Audio Setup Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard. Taming Twitter Wednesday 18 May 2011. @rscwales. Lis Parcell Senior E-learning Advisor RSC Wales @lisparcell. Paul Richardson E-learning Advisor RSC Wales @paulbrichardson.

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  1. Welcome! If you’ve arrived early... • ...don’t forget to do Audio Setup • Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard

  2. Taming TwitterWednesday 18 May 2011 @rscwales Lis Parcell Senior E-learning Advisor RSC Wales @lisparcell Paul Richardson E-learning Advisor RSC Wales @paulbrichardson

  3. About this session • Some tips to help you get more out of your time on Twitter • A chance to share your own tips • A chance to practise using a virtual classroom • From time to time I’ll invite you to provide input using basic Elluminate tools

  4. Introducing Elluminate

  5. Interaction Tools Ask questions – raise your hand Use the emoticons! This helps the presenter! Happy, Confused, Round of applause, Thumbs-down Yes/No response – your results are shown against your name. Need to step away for a few minutes? Click this when you leave, and again when you return. SAVE Save a copy of the presentation: select disk symbol > whiteboard or chat > file type pdf

  6. Using Chat POST A MESSAGE TO THE GROUP Type your Chat message in the box and press Send Chat messages will appear in the box above. REMEMBER: Everyone in the room will see your message. POST A MESSAGE TO AN INDIVIDUAL/MODERATOR Send messages to individuals or the Moderators: Use the drop-down to find the person you want to send you message to before you press Send REMEMBER: if you change the “Send to” option to Individual/Moderator, you’ll need to change it back to “This Room” next time you want everyone to see your message! FONT TOO SMALL? Right-click in each box and choose Make text bigger or Make text smaller or Text Size

  7. POLL: How are you using Twitter? • Mainly for myself, for social/non-work purposes • Mainly for myself, for professional purposes • Mainly to provide a news/marketing service for my organisation • Other?

  8. Why tame Twitter? • Reduce information overload • Save time – use it for more effective Tweeting (or other things) • BUT remember: Twitter is by nature somewhat unruly Image courtesy of Vaguely Artistic on Flickr Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaguelyartistic/2089870213/

  9. Useful Twitter tools - summary • Lists: useful for scanning and catching up • Tagging with the hash tag symbol # - useful for tracking conversations • Favorites – useful if for example you want to use a tweet or a link later, or build up a selection of ‘top tweets’

  10. Taming Twitter: other tools

  11. POLL: How do you normally access Twitter? • Twitter.com • Tweetdeck • Hootsuite • Any others?

  12. Tweetdeck: some useful features • Multiple accounts on one screen • Columns • Ability to clear ‘seen’ tweets • Shortens URLs • Preview and edit re-tweets • Twitpic for sharing images • Email tweets • Schedule tweets

  13. Tweetdeck downsides • Doesn’t give you the same handy visual overview of your account (though you can profiles at any time) • Slight time delay • API limit

  14. Do you have a favourite Twitter tip? Image courtesy of Imagery by Pete on Flickr Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/photos/zenimagery/3696303982/

  15. Developing effective Twitter habits • Focus on what YOU need to use it for (what do you need to use it for?) • Prune your “followed” and followers • Do you really need to reciprocally follow? • Think before clicking the ‘Tweet’ button on blog posts, articles etc which you like • Avoid busy times (mornings generally quieter)

  16. Finding an effective Tweeting style • Work out how you want to use Twitter • Automated updates can be offputting • Automated reciprocal following – ditto • Meaningful tweets are easier to retweet • Short tweets are easier to retweet without editing • http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/

  17. More on this topic • Link to this and all other Lunchtime Byte sessions (with resources) at • http://moodle.rsc-wales.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=238 • Follow us! @rscwales @lisparcell @paulbrichardson @ebarrett • Contact e.j.parcell@swansea.ac.uk with any questions

  18. Staying in touch with us • www.rsc-wales.ac.uk • Email support@rsc-wales.ac.uk • Tel 01792 295959 • RSC Wales Online Summer Bytes – now booking • http://admin.rsc-wales.ac.uk/events/event_details.asp?eid=855

  19. Just before you go... • Save the slides and/or chat if you wish • Look out for an email asking you to complete our evaluation form – we appreciate your feedback • Remember to exit so we can close down the session successfully. Thank you for joining us!

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