Twitter makes a move toward curation; adds 100 more cities to ‘Trends’
Editor’s notes: By adding more cities to filter by, Twitter is providing more – if rudimentary – ways of curating the web.
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Twitter users can download their entire archive by year-end; now sees 1bn tweets every 2.5 days
Editor’s note: It took three years, two months and one day for the first billion tweets to be sent on Twitter. it now takes two and a half days. Not only is this a reflection of how technology is changing but it also serves as a reminder of the exponential rise in data on the web. Clearly, maligning sense of the data is a huge challenge – something the new Twitter archive might be able to help with.
List of eLearning professionals that use Twitter: Part one
Editor’s note: A great list and a great resource – 100 elearning peeps on Twitter. and it’s only part one . . .
Social media – the followership
Editor’s note: A ‘follower’s’ perspective on why leaders should tweet their heart out.
The typical Twitter user is a young woman with an iphone and 208 followers
Editor’s note: Useful and interesting insights into Twitter users based on a study of 36 million users.
Back channelling takes a step forward by Nic Laycock
Editor’s note: Nic Laycock takes a look at the #chat2lrn Twitter chat and how Twitter backchannels are benefiting learning professionals who aren’t physically at the conference.
Storify of #chat2lrn Twitter chat on elearning
E-learning has a long way to go to deliver good user experiences for learners, according…
elearning: what is it good for? #chat2lrn
Editor’s note: #chat2lrn is a Twitter chat for learning and OD professionals that takes place every other week on a Thursday. Yesterday’s chat was on e-learning, and very interesting it was too. Prior to each chat the organisers share some links as a kind of pre-reading (they also share the tweet analysis after the chat) and yesterday’s included some useful links on elearning.
Tweet analysis of Learning Live 2012
Tweeting from the Learning Live 2012 conference pushed the event hashtag #learninglive into number one…
Make the most of #LearningLive backchannel
Editor’s note: What is an event Twitter backchannel and how useful is one if you cannot attend an event? Find out in this article and follow the event tweeters from the event over the next two days.
The 60-second guide to teaching with tablets
Editor’s note: An interesting infographic looking at how tablets are being used by teachers to enhance the learning process. Food for thought here for how tablets can be used for workplace learning.