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Twitter learning tasks

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The most post popular posts relating to Me and My Web Shadow has long been “Some Beginner’s Guides to Twitter“.

This post from Beth Kanter is nice addition to those introductory guides, sharing some exercises from a Colorado non-profit‘s team Twitter learning sessions. 

If you’re learning to use Twitter have a go at some of these, on your own or with a friend or team (take a look at Beth’s post and the comments for more ideas): 

  • Find a new hashtag and use it successfully

  • Tweet a photo you took with your phone

  • Follow 5 new people that interest you

  • Schedule a tweet using HootSuite, Tweetdeck, or another service

  • Find and sign up for a link that will track your clicks

  • Search for a topic or hashtag you are interested in

  • Create a Twitter lists

  • Reply to someone’s tweet and get them to respond to you

  • Use a social media tool to determine your most effective time of the day to tweet

  • Gain 10 new followers by following less than 10 people

  • Use #FF to list a few people you enjoy following

Another useful approach if you have a large team or workshop session is to get people to share how they use Twitter, the moments when it has saved them time, brought them news first, thrown up an unexpected opportunity. 

Beginners’ guides to Twitter

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The links below are all very useful, but I would also recommend the Mashable Beginner’s Guide to Twitter.

Originally posted on my personal blog, Open….

At the Brighton Digital Festival talk on online reputation for artists I did the other evening, I was asked to post some beginners’ guides to Twitter (thanks to Helen Wilshaw for the reminder).

Naturally there is a pretty good one in Me and My Web Shadow, but there’s no shortage of free good advice out there online…

Here are a few I like the look of:

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And, showing far Twitter use has spread, the DeBrett’s social networking etiquette guide has a nice way of putting things (via Harry Wallop in The Telegraph:

Do not overload the Facebook home page feed with countless status updates. Be sure that your posts are written to enlighten others, and not used as an exercise in vanity.

Well, quite!

Twitter image (cc) Svartling

Things you need to know about . . . Facebook – managing your Facebook privacy settings (book update)

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The introduction to Me and My Web Shadow said that the book would probably be out of date before it was even published, and I wasn’t joking. It also said that Facebook was probably the most important place to start looking at what information about you is private and what is available for anyone to see.

In the past few weeks there has been a lot of conversation online about the rights and wrongs of Facebook’s privacy settings. The New York Times published this visual representation of the complex nature of them. It has made many people feel vulnerable and anxious about controlling the personal information that Facebook stores and shares. To try and tackle this, Facebook has rolled out some new tools for managing those settings – claiming that this is Making Control Simple.

This article talks you through these new top level privacy controls and should act as an update to the Facebook chapter in Me and My Web Shadow. Hope it’s useful. Continue reading →