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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:56:49 +0000

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By: john bownas

john bownas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:47:23 +0000

Tim – is the learning network having any online discussions on any of the social networks?

We missed the last residential course as our delegate had to take some urgent time off…are there any notes or suchlike that we could have access to?

By: Richard Sheehy

Richard Sheehy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:41:45 +0000

I know you mentioned SMS not available everywhere, you may consider mentioning some applications for smart phones such as twitterberry for blackberry or twitterific for iphone etc.

By: Rizwan

Rizwan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:57:49 +0000

Hi Tim

Good effort but you missed out a key element of ‘twitterspeak’ – primarily the use of RT, which really seems to have taken off. Most non-hardcore twitterers still dont really have a clue what it means, and it makes following tweets a whole lot more complicated for novices – particularly as some people seem to use it for more than just re-tweeting!

Rgds

Rizwan

Blog – http://www.urbansurvivalproject.org
Follow – http://twitter.com/rizwantayabali

By: Mike Amos-Simpson

Mike Amos-Simpson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:09:34 +0000

hm you could go on for quite some time – twitter for conferences & events, twitter for evaluation & feedback, twitter for networking, twitter for research, twitter for promoting events/clubs/services……

I think for the youth sector its maybe mostly about just getting people to try it out – although building a network obviously helps make it a more useful & enjoyable tool so maybe there is value in having something extra on finding and discovering people & topics

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:05:34 +0000

I reckon there might be another one-pager to add to this one around ‘Finding people and conversations with Twitter’ perhaps?

Or should I try and fit more on finding people into the general purpose guide?

By: Mike Amos-Simpson

Mike Amos-Simpson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:06:30 +0000

good work Tim and I like the use of scribd – makes life just a little more convenient.

Not necessary for your guide but as a note for anyone trying to find relevant people to follow (which is pretty hard for youth work) you can enter “youth work” or “youth participation” or “young people” etc. etc.) into twitter search and then sign up to rss feeds for that search term – you’ll then get ongoing feeds of people who have used terms relevant to your interests and then choose whether to follow them. And of course there are millions of other twitter apps some of which do the same or better but that’s way too much to fit on one page!