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In response to Twitter Quitters - 40% leave after one month.

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Why am I writing about Twitter? I think like all new applications/technology, Twitter will face its share of scepticism and rejection. Refer to the article on Twitter Quitters. All of this takes about two months of diligently pursuing twitter.

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Revisiting My Learning Journey on Social Media

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Six years have passed since I joined Twitter in 2008, when twitter was in its infancy, and I was clueless about its use. I stumbled across twitter quite by accident or should I say serendipity. Needless to say when I found the same person on Twitter, I was part excited and part overawed. I lurked and waited.

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Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers--stop #9

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With her focus on the main tools that have grabbed “global imagination” namely, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and Wikis, Jane Bozarth writes a lucid, eminently readable account of what technology has to offer in terms of Social Media tools and their position in the sphere of learning. There are possibilities I have not even explored.

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Trust--The Cornerstone of Collaboration

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This started with a conversation on Facebook, that went to Buzz and came back to FB again. This was a conversation between Paul (Twitter name: @simbeckhampson) and me. I'm following the Dalai Lama on FB & Twitter and love reading his wisdom. Me : Read the comment and picked up the quote on compassion and posted on Twitter.

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We participate and therefore we are

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Thus, our natural urge to share, discuss, construct knowledge make us use applications like Twitter to share information thus building our own microcosm of similarly interested people. Twitter, Facebook, Ning, etc., These applications, I believe, came into existence because the need was always there. Features of Web 2.0

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"Working Out Loud": Using the Tools We Already Have

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Twitter : The trigger question, " What's Happening"? that Twitter greets you with is a great initiator to begin "working out loud". Working out loud on Twitter therefore has dual advantage of collaboration & cooperation as well as the ability to seek direct help. When is it most useful to use Twitter?

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Micro-Learning: Its Role in Formal, Informal and Incidental Learning

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Whether it’s tweets from the Twitter feed, blog posts and articles, or the latest You Tube video and TED Talk, these essentially comprise nuggets and bytes of content in various forms that we pull from the environment and then string together to make sense and build a cohesive picture.