Twitter,Facebook and SMS on TED

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

it makes me think how new media like twitter,facebook and not so new txt (AKA SMS) is a powerful tool . As I face my up and coming challenge http://momlejog.blogspot.com/ http://www.justgiving.com/andyblack1 and look at ways of keeping friends,supporters family informed while highly mobile on a bike . This is a flippant example but the parrallels between complex political situation and my own personal challenge are to me very marked .

Whays interesting even on election day which network was turned off interupted first the sms network interesting eh !!

Twitter in the classroom HE example

Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT
Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more
people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had
heard of Twitter.

One especially for Bob who cant see the use for twitter. Not passing comment just suggesting some of you might like to see this.

100th twitter follower compared to 100th Facebook friend

I blogged back in October about my adding my 100th Facebook Friend http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2008/10/100-facebook-friends.html I am just about to add my 100th follower on twitter . Well it just happens to be John Traxler of Wolverhampton Universities Learning Lab.

Twitter took me as it does many users a while to get but my advice is stick with it . Twitter is becoming for many there own Personal Learning Network and Drew Buddie aka Digitalmaverick suggests it is his google . Twitter it appears to me has widened my network made it accross the the education sector . The big impact has been personally in international contacts. Now I know its personal but twitter seems to work for me!

request for help R U using twitter with Deaf learners

Hi request for help anybody using or interested in using twitter with deaf learners if leave us a comment

twitter bbc news us election twitter ultimate news feed

Well where else would you get up to date breaking news . Is twitter
the modern equivalent of ticker Tape news
http://twitter.com/BBC/status/990985113 the BBC on twitter ;-).

Great twitter tools two sources

Thanks to Leon Cynch for sending this link to me from http://www.deontee.com/about/

47 great twitter tools
http://www.deontee.com/47-top-twitter-sites-services-software-and-tips/

I also love the playmobile figure browsing twitter.


Also you might like to look at http://everythingtwitter.com/ great stuff on both sites.

Twitter stealth technology ?

Is Twitter a technology that is emerging by stealth. In recent months I've seen:-

• Teachers asking for ideas for teaching classes
• Travellers asking for restaurant and things to do ideas
• Conference attendees broadcasting thoughts ideas
• Conference presenters asking questions of the audience in the room and in the wider world via Twitter
  
• Bloggers getting ideas from twitter
  
• Facebook users using it to update status and Twitter at the same time
  

Google is still the search engine of the masses but for specialist questions amongst a circle of friends (followers in Twitter terms) Twitter is a very powerful tool that is creeping up in its use.

You may only have 160 characters but it encourages short targeted questions

See you on Twitter ;-)