Tweets and Links

I signed up for Twitter awhile ago but just recently learned the awesomeness of the website. I'm following Kristen Chenoweth (singer and actress, also an Oklahoma-native) and Christina Applegate an amazing and awesome actress while I get updates from groups such as MuggleNet (a Harry Potter fanbase website) and the CareerCrossings office here on campus for upcoming and happening events.

I just learned about the hashes in posts to target groups and I'm going to start using that to target my posts to particular groups and people. Twitter is definitely a site that is quickly growing and keeps everyone in touch with others' lives and activities.



I'm really excited about my LinkedIn account because I set this up last month so I could find a job and start networking with the right people. It will be neat to use this in my online portfolio and market my skills and activities to other people in the business world.

I also found this funny comic while online yesterday about the competition and differences between Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.



I really liked the video about classroom implications of Twitter and backchanneling in the classroom. My best friend goes to a big school and says that there is less room for comments in the classroom and I think that Twitter (especially with hashing and specific targets to groups) helps engage everyone in the participation and is a way that all can "attend" class even if they are not physically present. I think this would be an interesting experiment to try sometime to see if we still get the same conversation out of Tweets than we would face-to-face. While it adds more flexibility to the conversation it would be harder to develop a conversation fully between different Twitter posts and it would be delayed from real time to fit the times everyone checked the posts and comments online.

I'm having trouble uploading video feed to my blogpost, I'm going to try and figure that out. :D

~Rachel