When I first wrote about Twitter in Higher Education (back in November 2008) I’d not been using the service all that long or as frequently as I do now and it wasn’t until early 2009 that I really started to gather my thoughts about how to make the best use of it. So now we’re [...]

Workshop Six: New professionals: Build your network using social media
My final workshop of the conference was another of Jo Alcock’s sessions, this time focusing on social media – blogs, Twitter and social networking in particularly. I’m not really sure whether I’d be considered an ‘early adopter’ or not, having originally set up this blog in January 2006 – back when [...]

Where do you start with your ‘reflective writing’ on one of the most interesting meetings you’ve been to in a very long time when you’re still reeling from the god awful news that your ‘hopes of a better future’ lie in the hands of David Cameron? Well, I think the best thing to do is [...]

Read Write Web has a really interesting post about a Twitter experiment in which a University of Texas History Professor, Monica Rankin, uses Twitter in a classroom environment to discuss the class topics.
Rankin uses a weekly hashtag to organize comments, questions and feedback posted by students to Twitter during class. Some of the students have [...]

The other day I was quietly working away when I overheard:
But I don’t want to use Twitter, I’m not interested in what people are having for their lunch.
Firstly, how can you not be interested in what people are having for lunch? I actually find this fascinating and often recommend good places for people to get [...]