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"# I use Twitter to get the pulse of people in the larger online world. # I use Twitter to communicate in two directions. # I use Twitter to promote important causes, as well as business opportunities. # I use Twitter to promote other people's stuff 12 times as much I as do mine (12:1 rule). # I use Twitter to stay updated on people's shared news. # I use Twitter as a quick pulse-taking service. # I use Twitter to find business (via search). # I use Twitter to stream links to my stuff and to others' stuff. # I use Twitter to connect with humans. "

"How do you train an Innovator? We are born curious. We are born with imagination. The first challenge is to ensure that these very human qualities are not schooled out of us, as Sir Ken Robinson says. Beyond that, in my research, I identified five essential education and parenting practices that develop young people's capacities to innovate: 1. Learning to work collaboratively (innovation is a team sport!). 2. Learning to understand problems from a multi-disciplinary perspective. 3. Learning to take risks and learn from mistakes. 4. Focusing on creating versus consuming. 5. Reinforcing the intrinsic motivations of play, passion, and purpose versus the extrinsic carrots and sticks."

Kristina Mitchell is the director of undergraduate studies and director of online and regional site education for the department of political science at Texas Tech University.