I'm pretty late to the Twitter game. I've been a proponent of social learning, have leveraged things like discussion boards and blogs in multiple learning solutions, and have even somewhat enjoyed Facebook (#FB) on a personal level. However, I just started tweeting in earnest a few months ago. I knew I wanted to use it for professional reasons -- follow other people in the professional training and education industry -- but I wasn't sure the best way to go about finding the right people to follow in my feed, or even what the rules are for interaction. I also wanted to see what I could get out of it, educationally.
My first 500 tweets essentially consisted of me either retweeting what others had said, tweeting links of interesting information I read, or participating in chat sessions like #hbrchat or #lrnchat. I'm still not sure what it's called when you participate in one of those hashtag list conversations, but I actually learned a lot each time. I've gained a significant amount of insight from reading articles others have recommended as well. However, I've found that, outside the hashtag conversations, there is a pretty wide lack of interaction in Twitter activity, so working out any idea other than "this is interesting" really hasn't happened with me yet.
Then a couple of days ago I think I committed a foul and disagreed with a tweet I saw. Responding to a tweet about an article (that I read), I sent this tweet:@mariaod Central monitoring will not decrease#innovation failure. I don't agree that failure rate should be a concern. 15inno.com/2012/01/02/80-… Instead of a back/forth I thought might happen, I suddenly felt guilty and quickly backed off my stance by tweeting @MariaOD ok -- that makes sense. Always good to do #postmortem. Do agree wth article that it's important to know when to term projects #pm
I think perhaps I don't have a real relationship with 48 of the people tweeting I see in my feed. So it's difficult to have a meaningful disagreement. So, one question is, how do I build a relationship of trust with others, virtually, so that I might really engage in a discourse using Twitter?
It's also been interesting to see how many people follow me on Twitter. Being a novice, I was surprised when, it seemed overnight, I had 50 followers. I was surprised to see that number drop over the December holidays, possibly because people realized that I'm more of a consumer, less of a contributor. I had noticed that some of the people I follow on Twitter, who seemed to use it to tweet about more professional and academic issues, occassionally tweeted personal items, so I've tried the same. Back to#work. No more of this silly #vacation and #holiday stuff. I saw that a few people quickly stopped following me after that tweet, as well as this one: Two younger ones have the same #incredulous look. Easy to practice with me as their dad
I'm still also puzzled by those who I see that follow hundreds and sometimes thousands of others. How does one filter through that many tweets to get something they're interested in?
My first 500 tweets essentially consisted of me either retweeting what others had said, tweeting links of interesting information I read, or participating in chat sessions like #hbrchat or #lrnchat. I'm still not sure what it's called when you participate in one of those hashtag list conversations, but I actually learned a lot each time. I've gained a significant amount of insight from reading articles others have recommended as well. However, I've found that, outside the hashtag conversations, there is a pretty wide lack of interaction in Twitter activity, so working out any idea other than "this is interesting" really hasn't happened with me yet.
Then a couple of days ago I think I committed a foul and disagreed with a tweet I saw. Responding to a tweet about an article (that I read), I sent this tweet:
I think perhaps I don't have a real relationship with 48 of the people tweeting I see in my feed. So it's difficult to have a meaningful disagreement. So, one question is, how do I build a relationship of trust with others, virtually, so that I might really engage in a discourse using Twitter?
It's also been interesting to see how many people follow me on Twitter. Being a novice, I was surprised when, it seemed overnight, I had 50 followers. I was surprised to see that number drop over the December holidays, possibly because people realized that I'm more of a consumer, less of a contributor. I had noticed that some of the people I follow on Twitter, who seemed to use it to tweet about more professional and academic issues, occassionally tweeted personal items, so I've tried the same. Back to
I'm still also puzzled by those who I see that follow hundreds and sometimes thousands of others. How does one filter through that many tweets to get something they're interested in?
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