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on 2009-07-10 by pencehe

It also provides access to some of the best thinkers around who share their presentations and URLs. If you can't strain the spaghetti, stay out of the kitchen.

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A channel to multiple publics

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on 2009-05-12 by grinnpidgeon

that's good, because twiteracy would have been the likely result

more than 60% of new Twitter users fail to return the following month

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Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet.

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on 2009-05-12 by mbogle

Well said!

part-technological, part-social communication media

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skills to use productively

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When I started requiring digital journalism students to learn how to use Twitter, I didn't have the list of journalistic uses for Twitter that I have compiled by now. So I logged onto the service and broadcast a request. "I have a classroom full of graduate students in journalism who don't know who to follow. Does anybody have a suggestion?" Within ten minutes, we had a list of journalists to follow, including one who was boarding Air Force One at that moment, joining the White House press corps accompanying the President to Africa.

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knowing how to look

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on 2009-10-14 by grahamperrin

It's much easier to view microblogging conversations in Identi.ca

You need to hang out for minutes and hours, every day, to get in the groove.

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start my wordflow for the day with something short and lightweight

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political or technical argument, gossip, scientific info, news flashes, poetry, social arrangements, classrooms, repartee, scholarly references, bantering with friends. And I'm in control of deciding how much of each flavor I want in my flow. I don't have to listen to noise, but filtering it out requires attention. You are responsible for whoever else's babble you are going to direct into your awareness.

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Openness

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You won’t get the sense of Twitter if you just check in once a week.

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You are responsible for whoever else's babble you are going to direct into your awareness.

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Immediacy

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I'm in control of deciding how much of each flavor I want in my flow. I don't have to listen to noise, but filtering it out requires attention. You are responsible for whoever else's babble you are going to direct into your awareness.

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A channel to multiple publics - I'm a communicator and have a following that I want to grow and feed. I can get the word out about a new book or vlog post in seconds - and each of the people who follow me might also feed my memes to their own networks. I used to just paint. Now I document my painting at each stage of the process, upload pix to flickr or flicks to blip.tv, then drop a tinyurl into Twitter.

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on 2009-05-19 by willrich

This truly is one of the real powers of Twitter.

Variety

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ou don't have to be a professional writer to think about publics

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Anyone who publishes a blog knows that they are not simply broadcasting to a passive audience – blog readers can comment, can link back, can criticize and analyze, and in many instances, can join the blogger in some form of collective action in the physical world.

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Reciprocity

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on 2009-10-14 by grahamperrin

I'm surprised that Twitter can't present a conversation in a meaningful way. Compare with Identi.ca running StatusNet, examples: http://identi.ca/conversation/12018048 http://identi.ca/conversation/12000057 http://identi.ca/conversation/11701331#notice-11822415

Asymmetry - very interesting, because nobody sees the same sample of the Twitter population. Few people follow exactly the same people who follow them. There is no social obligation to follow people simply because they follow me. I tell them that I follow people who inform or amuse me, and I hope to do the same for people who follow me.

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Anyone who publishes a blog knows that they are not simply broadcasting to a passive audience – blog readers can comment, can link back, can criticize and analyze, and in many instances, can join the blogger in some form of collective action in the physical world.

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Few people follow exactly the same people who follow them

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Developing the ability to know how much attention and trust to devote to someone met online is a vitally important corollary skill. Personal learning networks are not a numbers game. They are a quality game.

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Asymmetry

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Twitter is not a community, but it's an ecology in which communities can emerge.

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A way to meet new people

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it's an ecology in which communities can emerge.

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Searchability

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Twitter is not a community, but it's an ecology in which communities can emerge.

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A window on what is happening in multiple worlds

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the ability to follow searches for phrases like "swine flu" or "Howard Rheingold" in real time provides a kind of ambient information radar on topics that interest me.

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Community-forming

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communities can emerge

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successful use of Twitter comes down to tuning and feeding. And by successful, I mean that I gain value - useful information, answers to questions, new friends and colleagues - and that the people who follow me gain value in the form of entertainment, useful information, and some kind of ongoing relationship with me.

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A platform for mass collaboration

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When I recently participated in a live discussion onstage, we projected in real time the tweets that included a hashtag for the event, an act that blended the people in the audience together with the people on the panel in a much more interactive way than standard Q&A sessions at the end of the panel. After years as a public speaker and panelist, I found it fascinating and useful to have a window on what my previously silent audience was thinking while I was talking.

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Searchability

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on 2009-10-14 by grahamperrin

Really not as good as it should be.

to me, successful use of Twitter comes down to tuning and feeding. And by successful, I mean that I gain value - useful information, answers to questions, new friends and colleagues - and that the people who follow me gain value in the form of entertainment, useful information, and some kind of ongoing relationship with me.

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You have to tune who you follow

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I think successful use of Twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people who follow you.

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I learned from master educators on Twitter that growing and tuning a "personal learning network" of authoritative sources and credible co-learners is one of the strategies for success in a world of digital networks.

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tuning and feeding

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gain value - useful information, answers to questions, new friends and colleagues

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Returning to my use of the word literacy to describe both a set of skills for encoding and decoding as well as the community to which those skills provide entrance, I see that the use of Twitter to build personal learning networks, communities of practice, tuned information radars involves more than one literacy

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some kind of ongoing relationship

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If it isn't fun, it won't be useful.

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knowing how to tune the network of people you follow

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on 2009-10-14 by grahamperrin

I expect to tune my Diigo network over a period of months.

how to feed the network of people who follow you

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IRL ("in real life")

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on 2009-10-14 by grahamperrin

http://stepawayfromthecomputer.org/

Everyone has a different mix of these elements, which is part of the charm of Twitter. My personal opinion is that I need to keep some personal element going, but not to overdo it

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Returning to my use of the word literacy to describe both a set of skills for encoding and decoding as well as the community to which those skills provide entrance

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Whatever you call this blend of craft and community, one of the most important challenges posed by the real-time, ubiquitous, wireless, always-on, often alienating interwebs are the skills required for the use of media to be productive and to foster authentic interpersonal connection, rather than waste of time and attention on phony, banal, alienated pseudo-communication. Know-how is where the difference lies.

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some personal element going, but not to overdo it

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not crank up the self-promotion

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I needed an authoritative guide to

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on 2009-10-14 by grahamperrin

I needed a guide to configuring a microblogging client (twhirl) to work with a StatusNet server. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I gained an answer.

Twitter is a flow, not a queue like your email inbox

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Whatever you call this blend of craft and community, one of the most important challenges posed by the real-time, ubiquitous, wireless, always-on, often alienating interwebs are the skills required for the use of media to be productive and to foster authentic interpersonal connection, rather than waste of time and attention on phony, banal, alienated pseudo-communication. Know-how is where the difference lies.

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If it isn't fun, it won't be useful

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attention literacy

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ten to twenty minutes to regain full focus when returning to a task that requires concentrated attention

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Comments

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ambient awareness

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html

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on 2009-10-14 by grahamperrin

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2008%2F09%2F07%2Fmagazine%2F07awareness-t.html?tab=comment

definitely worth adding to the mix. Thank you, Stephanie

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Implicit reputation/credibility filters

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a recovering drop-out

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connecting on many different planes

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/may/12/computer-science-it

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on 2009-10-14 by grahamperrin

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Feducation%2F2009%2Fmay%2F12%2Fcomputer-science-it?tab=comment

back channel conversations during my presentations

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one of the best explanations of the value and intricacies of twitter

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