<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi Mel and All:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">What an interesting conversation this
has been! And what a popular buzz - my local chapter board of ASTD (American
Society of Training and Development) has had an ongoing email conversation
around "Twitter" and other social networking at the same time
- the emails have been getting all jumbled up for me in my in-box as the
two groups overlap in conversation!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Below is a brief article that came across
my screen during this same time on a college program in the UK on this
oh so newly familiar topic... </font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Birmingham University Offers Social Media Degree<br>
<br>
<br>
March 30, 2009 - Birmingham City University will offer a social media degree
<br>
which will explore the techniques of social media including Facebook, <br>
Twitter and Bebo. The MA in Social Media will also explain how to set up
<br>
blogs and publish podcasts. The one-year course at Birmingham City will
<br>
consider social networking sites as communications and marketing tools.
The <br>
course, which will start next year, was advertised through a makeshift
video <br>
on the university's website. ...<br>
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View complete entry at: http://www.salt.org/index.htm?salt.asp?pn=industry</font></tt><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Cheers! </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Susan Kerr</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>hi everyone<br>
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thanks for all your comments on Twitter. Really useful. I am about to <br>
start raising funds for a new Onemedia event, this time in bonny <br>
Scotland and our partners are quite technical and want to do something
<br>
really innovative with their technology.<br>
<br>
We used Twitter at the first Onemedia event to allow people to send <br>
headlines from their group sessions to the tv screens around the <br>
building, that way you could keep up to date with what was happening in
<br>
a group. It worked okay but because it was very new to 80 %of the <br>
participants it did not feel so natural but now, I think, that a lot of
<br>
people have it set up on their phones it might be quicker and easier.<br>
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I also went to an event last June and when the speakers were on stage,
<br>
there was a projector projecting a twitter stream about the talk using
<br>
comments from the audience. I was not sure it would work but it added <br>
another dimension to the talk, The speakers could answer a question that
<br>
appeared. If someone did not understand a phrase then someone else would
<br>
let them know what it meant.<br>
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Hope you all are well. Good wishes from London<br>
<br>
Mel<br>
Media-sauce<br>
www.media-sauce.org<br>
www.one-media.org<br>
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Heidi Nobantu Saul wrote:<br>
> Viv, John, Chris and others who have shared,<br>
><br>
> Many Thanks! - I appreciate the sharing about what connecting in this/these<br>
> on line ways does for you personally and what it can mean collectively.
You<br>
> all are more clear and persuasive than Scott Simon was while exploring
it<br>
> recently on an NPR Saturday morning or a Charlie Rose conversation
with Evan<br>
> Williams the co-founder of Twitter. They should hire y'all to<br>
> market/advertise their product. <br>
><br>
> I have had a twitter account for several months now, set up for me
by<br>
> colleague Kaliya. I have yet to 'tweet' and do not look at my account
with<br>
> any regularity. I am ready to dive into the stream now - or
at least sit<br>
> next to the edge.<br>
><br>
> Heidi<br>
><br>
> Heidi Nobantu Saul<br>
> heidi@nobantu.com<br>
> Twitter: www.twitter.com/nobantu <br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Viv<br>
> McWaters<br>
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 1:45 PM<br>
> To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
> Subject: Re: social networking and twitter<br>
><br>
> HI Raffi and others<br>
><br>
> I've been using Twitter for a couple of years now<br>
> (www.twitter.com/vivmcw) and before using it I could see no real<br>
> purpose. Now that I 'follow' the tweets (updates) of 100+ people (some<br>
> of whom I know - Hi Chris - and many that I don't) I can see real<br>
> benefits.<br>
><br>
> 1. I work at home, mostly alone. Tweets are like the background hum<br>
> you would hear in an office. Most of it you ignore. Occasionally<br>
> there's something that interests me so I follow up<br>
><br>
> 2. People post lots of links to articles, blogs etc that I would never<br>
> find otherwise.<br>
><br>
> 3. It helps me feel closer and connected to the people I actually
know who<br>
> tweet<br>
><br>
> 4. I can ask a question (especially a tech question) and nearly always<br>
> get an immediate response<br>
><br>
> 5. Southern Australia is a long way from the rest of the world. Mostly<br>
> that's good. Twitter is an easy way for me to stay up-to-date with<br>
> global news (and, yes, I also read newspapers and am finding that
they<br>
> are usually about 24 hours behind, but they do provide a lot more
than<br>
> 140 characters!)<br>
><br>
> 6. Tweeting helps with my writing. The limit of 140 characters means
I<br>
> have to choose my words carefully and can't rabbit on (like in this<br>
> email ;-)<br>
><br>
> 7. I get to 'know' some new people through their tweets and learn
of<br>
> some really cool ways of doing things (eg a woman here in Melbourne
is<br>
> raising money for a micro-finance scheme for women in the<br>
> Philippines, a company gave $100 per blog post about the project as<br>
> part of the fund raising effort. I learnt about this via her tweets)<br>
><br>
> And what annoys me about twitter?<br>
><br>
> 1. It can be boring sometimes.<br>
><br>
> 2. I get sick of so many tech people tweeting in shorthand tech<br>
> language that I don't understand - that's probably more of a<br>
> reflection of the main users of twitter and the people I follow -
I<br>
> would LOVE to have a whole heap of OST people to follow.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
><br>
> Viv<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> <br>
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