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A Tech crunch article about stats that debunk the argument about microblogging being expected to surpass blogging in popularity within a few years from inception.

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A good set of links to useful tips on using Twitter for teachers and groups to join or follow

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Initially available only for subscribers of the site, there are now multiple manuals released every month, for everyone to enjoy. After releasing 15 manuals and nearly half a million downloads we thought it was about time to look back and review what has been published so far. Enjoy! No sign up need, downloads are free, no strings attached.

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Facebook is now the most popular site for sharing content followed by a distant Twitter. Surprisingly, more people now prefer to bookmark content on Yahoo! Bookmarks and Windows Live Favorites than Google or Delicious which dominated the scene in 2007.

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Great course for storytelling using new technologies.
"Web 2.0 storytelling is the practice of using social media to tell and share stories. Explores the growing number of examples in a wide variety of platforms, from blogs to twitter to YouTube and much more. The presenters focus on educational applications and issues, and attendees will have an opportunity to experiment with some of the tools"

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Social media tools are increasingly powerful & valuable for communicating, collaborating, retaining & harvesting knowledge. Despite widespread use, popularity of social media, & ability to facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration in workplace training, privacy issues & fears of misuse continue to deter many organisations from adopting these tools.

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Create screen recordings via a web-based tool. The videos can be played on the web or iPhone, so they are great for adding to your tweets. You must have Twitter account though and all screencasts are public.

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Article that discusses the relevance of twitter for libraries and gives examples of how some libraries are using it.

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Practical Ideas for Using Twitter in E-Learning. It offers some really practical advice and good ideas.

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Great post with a good collection of videos, tips and links outliniing how to get started with Twitter and using it in the classroom

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30 tips for teachers who want to learn how to use Twitter to network, teach, and share information:

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A private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other. Teachers sign up for accounts, and then create groups. Students then sign up (no email address required) and join the group using the unique code.

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Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress

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The future of blogging. Where is it going ?

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Still to be convinced by Twitter in education? Take a look at the Twitter collaboration stories wiki for some ideas and good examples of how it can be used

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Twtpoll is a feedback tool that helps you to create and distribute polls on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites.

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Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly) re:The news from Iran. The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. A good overall presentation on how web 2.0 technology is revolutionizing the media landscape

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In the larger picture, the most intriguing thing about Twitter is not how it is different from other online communication mechanisms, but how it is the same: one more technological innovation enabling the outfolding of consciousness - the collective turning-outward of human thought.

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Stephen Prothero is helping world religions make their way onto Twitter this summer, one 140-character tweet at a time. The Boston University professor of religion is treating his account, sprothero, like a microcourse, posting several tweets on each of what he identifies as the eight major world religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Yoruba tradition, which Mr. Prothero calls the “neglected world religion” from West Africa

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