Professional Development presentation to the MAEd candidates at Baldwin-Wallace College

1. Using Social Media for Professional Development Amanda Means @ameans912

2. What am I going to tell you about? What are social media and professional development? Social media sites Twitter definitions How to expand your horizons via Twitter

3. What are social media and professional development?

5. Top 10 Social Media Sites Facebook YouTube MySpace Yahoo! Answers Tagged Twitter myYearbook Mylife MocoSpace Linkedin

6. My Suggestions for Professional Development LinkedIn Professional social networking site 80 million users as of 11/2/10 Facebook Social networking site with applications 500 million users as of 7/21/10 Twitter Micro-blogging social networking site 145 million users as of 9/3/2010

7. A contact network is built up consisting of their direct connections, the connections of each of their connections, and the connections of second-degree connections Use: Find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by someone in one's contact network Employers can list jobs and search for potential candidates

8. Social networking site Use: Create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile Join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school, or college, or other characteristics

10. Micro-blogging social networking site Use: Users type short messages (“tweets”) of 140 characters or less Chat with others Reply Retweet Direct mention Follow chats

11. Twitter Definitions Tweet Short message you type Reply Post back to someone Retweet You like what someone else is saying so you re-post it Direct message Personal message exchange between you and another person

12. Followers Other twitter users who “follow” you and read what you post Following When you “follow” people and see what they post Hashtag # When you want to write about a certain topic Trending Hashtags that people are writing about

14. Expand Your Horizons via Twitter(for beginners) Create a twitter account! Set up your profile Use the search feature to find other twitter users Follow them Look at who they follow People will be notified via email that you follow them and they will follow you back

15. Begin to take notice in what #s people are using Search for trending topics #highered #sachat #sagrad #leadershipchat #careerservices #academicaffairs #fye #admission Link it you your Facebook if you wish

16. Expanding Your Horizons via Twitter(for you savvy ones out there) Download TweetDeck or HootSuite These sites allow you to use all of the features of twitter, but on just one screen!

18. Participate in Chats/Trends Find a trend you want to follow Click on the # link to it and see what people have written Some chats (i.e. #sachat) have moderators You introduce yourself (i.e. Amanda Means, Baldwin-Wallace College, Graduate Intern) Moderators will ask the questions and post the transcript on GoogleDocs

19. #sagrow Mentoring program via twitter Student Affairs professionals are paired with graduate students Started by Ed Cabellon from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, Director of the Student Union

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