Tweet
I almost hesitate to write a blog post about Twitter, after all, its been talked to death almost every week on the popular technology podcasts that I listen to and its hit main stream television (heard it mentioned on the Ashes cricket broadcasts, discussed in the drivel that's served up as current affairs and even in bland television programs striving desperately to remain relevant in an era when broadcast television is battling against the rising tide of the Web and all that it offers). By now lots of us have heard of it, many of us have dipped our toes in the water and some of us have really taken the plunge. There are thousands of blog posts on it so why write another one? Well I have just come across the following link on Twitter's home page - 'Twitter 101 - a special guide'. Sometimes it pays to visit the Twitter site instead of always using one of the many Twitter clients! Anyway, Twitter 101 is a nice little introduction from the Twitter people on how to use Twitter in your business. There are a few examples of successes, some hints and tips, and a number of links to some quite useful stuff if you are new to Twitter or haven't perhaps had the experience you were hoping for with it. If you're in education, as a learner or an educator, perhaps substitute the word 'customer' for learner, trainer, etc whenever it appears and see if the suggestions make sense. It's all about connecting better with your 'customers' getting closer and more responsive to them and making your services more relevant and immediate for them. Perhaps you are a private RTO (Registered Training Organisation) and your customers are in workplaces quite remote from you most of the time. Twitter just may offer a useful channel for communications between the two of you (that can of course be expanded to bring in many others - people and ideas). Nothing that I am saying here is new but its nice to see how Twitter have summed it all up and think how we can apply it in our contexts. Cheers.
