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"Have you ever wondered what type of content you should be creating for Twitter? Whether it is blog posts, quotes, memes, there has to be a content type that helps your traffic and branding more than other types of content, right?"

blog from Huffington Tech on FaceBook and Twitter stats. interesting stats such as: 32% of all Internet users use Twitter.

Great infographic by Shea Bennett on December 16, 2013 on how to increase Twitter success Section on what to tweet is interesting, i.e., engagement is 200% higher for tweets with image links, 21% higher when you ask a question, 86% higher when you ask readers to retweet, and 17% higher if tweets are 100 characters or less. Another assertion: Get real followers. It's better to have 100 real followers who engage than 1000 random followers who do you no good. Real followers are more likely to buy from you, will want updates on products, will offer ideas and feedback, etc.

Meghan Casserly of Forbes interviewed 20 young female entrepreneurs and how to use Twitter to find mentors and those that can give you advice as you build your business. All agree it is essential to have mentors, not just 1, and a support group of women in the same stage as you are or a little ahead in building a business.

Magazine article by Jon Ronson on the Justine Sacco twitter fiasco resulting in her firing. Ronson chronicles many other incidents of cyber twitter mobs turning on people, getting them fired, and making personal attacks. Casual tweeting with dire consequences.

great examples by Prof. Hacker on Chronicle of HE on how to learn with Twitter

nice blog post on how Twitter does encourage learning and how it should be introduced into class along with other requirements students should consider before enrolling in the class, Kelli Marshall, lecturer at DePaul University, June 2015, Chronicle HE

Jenn Deering Davis, 2012 Recommends: using an official conference hashtag 1. unique tag 2. communicate official tag 3. Track mention of the official and unofficial hashtags Surfacing interesting conference topics 4. Follow conversation as it unfolds 5. Pay attention to retweets 6. Use official handle to ask questions 7. Find problems quickly Sharing important conference content 8. Use official handle to post announcements and schedule changes 9. Distribute speaker slides 10. Answer attendee questions Tracking audience engagement 11. Measure total Twitter audience size 12. Determine popular speakers and presentations 13. Share metrics with sponsors Gathering feedback or your next conference 14. Tweet links to conference feedback survey 15. Compare this conference to other events 16. Analyze qualitative tweet content

Blog post, December 2013, by Kevin O'Keefe on how active Twitterers really are. Lyn is in the top .01% with 25,000+ followers. The Studio is around the 85 percentile in terms of followers.

Interesting (very positive!) assessment of the value of Facebook for lawyers to connect socially using the largest social network in the world by Kevin O'Keefe, May 16, 2013. Google+ comes in #2 in terms of worldwide use (not as popular in U.S. but very popular elsewhere), Twitter at #4, and LinkedIn follows Twitter as the fastest growing network (if one excludes the intervening Chinese social networks).

Very nice page on different ways to analyze Twitter performance with various tools--tried out Tweet Stats and Twittonomy--both of which gave me valuable information on WLS's history.

Excellent resource by Lynn Serafinn on using hashtags on Twitter or Facebook, July 9, 2013

page by Garin Kilpatrick on twitter usage success

Interesting assessment of growth, # of users, and ROI in 2012 for Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn and where each is going in 2013. Impact for Studio--looks like Twitter is strong, and LinkedIn is up and coming?

This video by Seth Dickens poses two questions 1) What do I know that could be shared? and 2) What do I want to learn? While I might disagree with the order, the rest of the video (about 4 minutes long) does a beautiful job of explaining what a learning (professional or personal) network is and what it allows one to do to connect purposeful and learn. Other information: Uploaded on Feb 21, 2012 This short video is an introduction to PLNs; known also as "Professional Learning Networks" and "Personal Learning Networks." These simple, organic networks help professionals to continually learn and add new skills and knowledge through informal learning. I'd be delighted to add you to my PLN, whether you're just getting started, or have already established a network. Join me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/sethdickens Find me at my blog: www.digitalang.com/blog For Teacher-Training Seminars & educational Consultancy please contact info@digitalang.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. You are free: to Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work , to Remix - to adapt the work, to make commercial use of the work provided under the following conditions Attribution - You must attribute the work to Seth Dickens -www.digitalang.com Noncommercial - You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike - If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

Review of Melissa Broder's book that documents her twitter account use of twitter to express sad, hurt, and negative feelings vs. the sunny posts you usually get. Interesting review of social media use in general.

Detailed information on use of Twitter for learning

Is this what we need to do on a regular basis with WLStudio? #EdChat http://www.facebook.com/EdchatPLN This is a different type of group - #Edchat is Twitter based. In their own words, "#Edchat is a hashtag discussion among educators from all over the world on education related topics. It happens every Tuesday at Noon EDT and 7PM EDT. To join us simply follow the #Edchat hashtag on Twitter!" The Facebook Page keeps users up on discussion topics, and provides additional resources.

Great article by Susan Weinschenk, Brain Wise: Work better, work smarter, September 11, 2012, and why dopamine keeps us "seeking" when we already have enough information. excerpt: Do you ever feel like you are addicted to email or twitter or texting? Do you find it impossible to ignore your email if you see that there are messages in your inbox? Do you think that if you could ignore your incoming email or messages you might actually be able to get something done at work? You are right!" ... "Instead of dopamine causing you to experience pleasure, the latest research shows that dopamine causes seeking behavior. Dopamine causes you to want, desire, seek out, and search. It increases your general level of arousal and your goal-directed behavior. From an evolutionary stand-point this is critical. The dopamine seeking system keeps you motivated to move through your world, learn, and survive. It's not just about physical needs such as food, or sex, but also about abstract concepts. Dopamine makes you curious about ideas and fuels your searching for information. Research shows that it is the opioid system (separate from dopamine) that makes us feel pleasure." Turn off the cues - One of the most important things you can do to prevent or stop a dopamine loop, and be more productive is to turn off the cues. Adjust the settings on your cell phone and on your laptop, desktop or tablet so that you don't receive the automatic notifications. Automatic notifications are touted as wonderful features of hardware, software, and apps. But they are actually causing you to be like a rat in a cage. If you want to get work done you need to turn off as many auditory and visual cues as possible. It's the best way to prevent and break the dopamine loops. What do you think? How do you deal with dopamine loops? Are you willing to turn off your cues?

Blog post by Deborah Shane "According to a CareerBuilder survey "hiring managers are using social media to get a glimpse at the candidate's behavior and personality outside of the interview, and are most interested in professional presentation and how the candidate would fit with the company culture. Here are five strategies anyone can use to 'advance and own their professional development'." First three of five strategies are online: 1) Use Facebook in a hybrid way. Facebook can be one of the most effective and diverse self marketing, branding and networking assets of all of the social platforms. Posting professional questions, article linking, Facebook chats and using the Notes Feature are all great ways to brand yourself on Facebook. 2) Brand your LinkedIn and Twitter pages content and information. Having a content rich, branded landing page on LinkedIn and Twitter can make a strong first impression. Complete your profiles and tell your story in your job history. This makes you more personable and shows people you are serious, professional and you want to be remembered. 3) Launch your own blog or guest blog for other strategic sites. This is one of the best ways to share how you think and show your knowledge and expertise, as well as highlight others in your field that you admire or want to emulate. Some of the free sites you can use are WordPress, Weebly and Wix.