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1. What is it?
How do I get it?
How do I manage it?
Dianne McKenzie
Head of Library
Discovery College
Hong Kong
http://librarygrits.blogspot.com
@dimac4

4. Traditional way of being developed professionally
You had to go looking for it, it was based on ‘experts’, infrequent, could be costly.

5. The new way....
You set the limits, it comes to you, in your time, hourly, daily, everyone is an expert

6. Why tweet?
Learn from people all over the world
Make connections
Something new all the time

7. http://www.bitrebels.com/social/the-4-stages-of-understanding-twitter-infographic/

8. Tips for getting the most out of twitter
Know your purpose
Be consistent
Stay on purpose
Be interesting Be a list maker
Talk to people -
make connections

9. Getting started....
“How to sign up for twitter” Open a twitter account
video http://twitter.com/
Create a Profile
IMPORTANT
Put in a photo or pic
and a brief biography
Many people will block you if they do not know who you are,
or what you do. Most genuine people use their real names.
See the following video tutorial on step by step http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGp4cWdndc

10. Butterscotch tutorials on twitter
10 part tutorial on how to use Twitter.

11. Start following people
You can start following a few people,
see who they follow, and follow them

12. People start following you

13. People start listing you
You start making lists
You start hash tagging #
You start RTing
People start RTing you
Find a twitter app that suites you

14. Now you have an account, commit to 15 minutes a day

16. Digest of Internet Information
Groups and Other stuff
Social bookmarking,
but much more than that

17. Research
Check out the video on the
Diigo homepage by clicking on
this icon to see what it can do

18. Click on the this
tab to get how to
start videos

19. There are many ways of using Diigo
as part of a PLN -
check out the groups already
there, create your own group.
As an educator you can make
groups for classes as well.

22. Use a blog reader to collect blogs to read,
this saves you have to go and find them each time you want to
read them.

23. Look for the Reader tab on the top of your gmail / google account
To add a blog, you can select add a subscription, then
put the URL in the box
OR

24. Wherever you see
this symbol on a
blog
click on it and it
will come up with
the choice of
homepage or
reader - choose
‘reader’ for now.
It will go straight
into your reader.

25. How to manage all of this?
You can set up a start page that puts everything in the one place.