Using the Social Web to gather information and expand professional

networks

Twitter, Diigo and LinkedIn

Presented by: Nathan HutchingsICT & eLearning Coordinator

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Yes but….

• Yes there is heaps of more web things out there but over five years this is what I have found to be manageable and mostly has kept me up to date and rather connected, at least virtually

Introduction

• Social Media

• Twitter, what it is, basics, how to use

• Diigo, what it is, basics, how to use

• LinkedIn, what it is, basics, how to use

• All three together, online networking

• All in good time

• Social networking housekeeping

Source: http://multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/

New Kid on the block!

Twitter, what is it?

• Micro Blogging service

• A web2.0 application, rather tired term these days

• User base is growing rapidly, especially mobile (see http://www.digitalsurgeons.com/facebook-vs-twitter-infographic/) – 400,000 tweets posted per quarter in 2007.

– 100 million tweets posted per quarter in 2008.

– February 2010, Twitter users were sending 50 million tweets per day

– By March 2010, over 70,000 registered applications, according to the company.

– June 2010, about 65 million tweets were posted each day, equaling about 750 tweets sent each second, according to Twitter. (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter)

Twitter Basics

• It is free

• You can use it in your web browser, mobile, ipad, itouch

• Messages are called tweets

• Messages are 140 characters in length, this includes spaces and punctuation

• Use tiny url to shorten web links (see http://tinyurl.com/)

How to use twitter

Diigo, what is it?

• Diigo is a free social bookmarking, research, and knowledge sharing tool

Diigo basics

• Sharing and annotation of book marks by…

– Highlighting

– Tagging

– Sticky notes

Diigo how to use•Bookmark a sight•Tag it and if you want to provide a description

LinkedIn, what is it?

LinkedIn basics

LinkedIn, how to use

• Put together your CV

• Recommend and get recommended

• Update your profile and updates

All three together

I currently use the Firefox Yoono add onwhich does the following….

•Little popup, bottom of my screen•Write one update and post to more

than one place •It can do more stuff but this is what I use

I also use the TinyURL generator plugin to quickly create shorten web links to post in twitter

All in good time

• It takes time for the magic to work

• networks grow organically and have a point of critical mass

• make it part of your daily to do list, using browser plugins help

• Use a mobile device to read and tweet

Social networking housekeeping

• Check who is following you to prevent spam

• Keep your LinkedIn profile upto date

• Use an add on or app to update multiple social network