How, When and Where Created By: Stephanie Hyatt GA Instructional Technologies, Winthrop University Spring 2014

WHAT IS TWITTER

THE ESSENTIALS Presentations

HOW TO TWEET

YOUR STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE  1. Go to Twitter and set up an account. Easy peasy  2. Choose a user name (and probably your real name)  3. Customise your profile. profile  4. Add a picture. picture  5. Customise your background and design colours. make sure text / links have sufficient contrast in both columns

STEP-BY-STEP  7. “Hello world”. the tiny thrill of posting your first tweet. But don’t get carried away yet, for you have no followers!  8. Browse and follow. Cruise around to find your friends and colleagues, and start following interesting people. Remember that you can always follow me  9. Familiarise yourself with the terminology. Don't panic, there's not much to learn and #  10. Select a Twitter client. Tweetdeck, UberSocial, Tweetcaster etc.

STEP-BY-STEP  11. Customise your Twitter client / TweetDeck  12. Download your phone and or mobile device app  13. Set up a Twitpic account. This is a third party service that allows Twitter users to upload pictures and attach them to their tweets (since no such functionality exists within Twitter). This is how Stephen Fry posted his ‘stuck in a lift’ picture.This is how Stephen Fry posted his ‘stuck in a lift’ picture  14. Set up a Bit.ly account. Bit.ly is an excellent URL shortening tool, replete with tracking and (Bit.ly allows you to post to multiple Twitter profiles, which is very handy if you have a personal account and also help to manage your company Twitter account, as I do). Bit.ly  15. Drag the Bit.ly bookmarklet to your toolbar.

STEP-BY-STEP  16. Add yourself to some directories  17. Find more people  18. Integrate Twitter with your website, and vice versa. Blog widgets, Tweetback buttons, Twitter feeds, etc. We use twitterfeed to automatically create tweets and links from our blog headlinestwitterfeed  19. Add Twitter to your other profiles. Facebook, LinkedIn, Econsultancy, your signature, the footer of your blog posts, even your business cards. Make it easy for people to follow you.  20. Start tweeting!

WHAT’S A LIVE TWEET

WHERE DO I TWEET FROM  Tweet from anywhere:  Live tweeting from events  Educator collaboration  Student engagement in and out of school  Parties and concerts  Political rallies and demonstrations  Elections  Sporting events

LIVE TWEETING  (v.): to engage on Twitter for a continuous period of time—anywhere from 20 minutes to a few hours— with a sequence of focused Tweets. The focus can be a big live event that everybody’s paying attention to (e.g. a TV show or an award show) or it can be an event you create yourself (e.g. a Q&A session with your fans).

LIVE TWEETING  There are some occasions when people cannot personally witness major or important events and occasions, which is why they would depend on other sources instead.   Because a live tweet mainly lives only on Twitter, as an event planner, you should do your best to integrate those valuable conversations and bring them to the awareness of all your attendees.That’s where a Twitter Wall comes handylive tweet 

TWEET IN EDU

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE BIRDS OF A FEATHER TO TWEET TOGETHER