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Grow Your Network & Develop Professionally
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Helen Blunden

2. Twitter
Grow your Network &
Develop Professionally

3. Introductions
Producer NameHelen Blunden
@ActivateLearn @XYZ

4. Before the Session
So what are we doing?
• Bust Some Myths…
• What is Twitter?
• Translating Twitter
• Let’s tweet!
• Who to Follow? Tips & Traps
• Creating your Personal
Learning Network (PLN)
• OMG this is scary stuff! SoMe
Policy
• Your Mission Should You
Choose to Accept

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Twitter: So what do you think of it?
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6. Twitter: So what do you think of it?
No-one is interested
in what I had for
breakfast!
It’s for young people!
I’ve got nothing to
say!
There’s no real
purpose for it
It’s a waste of my
time I don’t know
anyone on Twitter!

7. What is Twitter?
Source: Pasquale D’Silva [Public Domain] via Wikimedia Commons

8. Building a Voice: Reply, Retweet, Mention…Share!
# @ RT MT
Mention

9. Translating Twitter…
FYI: Abbreviations Used Here…
Etmooc: Educational Technology Massive Open
Online Course
Etmchat: Educational Technology MOOC Chat

10. Translating Twitter…

11. Let’s Now Explore Twitter… (Share Application)
#lunchlearn101

12. Backchannel: Miss that conference? Don’t despair…
In this recent Learning Technologies
Conference UK, some people were
tweeting, sharing links and photos of the
presentations…
THE BACKCHANNEL
#LTUK13 [Conference]
#T4S3 [Session Number]
…and people globally were getting in on
the conversation. It was like…you were
there!

13. Who Would You Follow…And Why?
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14. But What About…

15. Who To Follow?
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16. My Personal Learning Network: What’s yours?

17. Image Source: Angelus [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
• Follow leaders in your
professional circle or field
• See who they follow
• Participate in live tweet chats
• Join the Hashtag conversation
• Events and conferences
Who To Follow?

18. Are These Your Fears?

19. Our Company’s Social Media Policy

20. #TweetChat
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hisaMy5TGiwcnVhejNHWnZlT3NvWFVPT3Q4Nk
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Create a List of People you Follow in Your Profession or Industry
Respond to tweets, add your links, share your knowledge…
If you can, meet your ‘peep’ in person!....
Your Challenge Should You Choose to Accept..
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21. What else would you like to know?