By Ashraf Al Shafaki
This one-day workshop aims at introducing the social networking platform Twitter to the new user.
Objectives
By the end of this workshop you will have:
- Created your own twitter account (added a photo, written a short bio).
- Started following a group of profiles
Contents
- The power of twitter, it's role in the #jan25 Egyptian revolution
- Why use Twitter? Benefits of using Twitter.
- In what ways Twitter can and is being used.
- What's a tweet (140 characters)
- How to create an account on twitter.
- How to write an effective short bio.
- Selecting an photo for your twitter profile.
- Using Twitter - Twitter Features
- Timeline
- Following (let participants follow one another!)
- Tweeting
- hashtag (it's like a compact form of tags in blogs!)
- @Mentions
- @Replies
- Favorite (somehow similar to Like in Facebook)
- Retweeting (RT)
- Messages (Direct Messages and how they work, how they differ from Facebook messages, SMS or email (they can vanish, one copy only is available))
- Lists
- Trending
- Photos in tweets (Twitpic)
- Abbreviated URLs in tweets
- Real time (updates just pop in!)
- The @ and # symbols
- Permalink of a tweet
- Search
- Keywords
- hashtag
- @
- Saved search
- Advanced search
- Viewing replied on tweets.
- Comparison between blogging, tweeting and social networking website (Facebook, LinkedIn).
- Twitter from cell phones
- Twitter mobile applications (BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, Android)
- Texting (SMS)
- Promoting your Twitter profile (using the Follow button in your blog and elsewhere)
- Themes and custom designs
- Contests on Twitter
- Google Real Time search and its relationship with Twitter.
- The literal meaning of the words twitter and tweets.
Additional- Handouts containing all slides of the presentation
- PowerPoint presentation for the workshop.
Source
The Twitter Help page. |
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