Comments for Twitter Handbook http://twitterhandbook.com/blog How good people make BIG things happen - FAST! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:08:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Using Twitter to Make History.. and Create the Future. Twitter in the Classroom by ahealingvoice http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/using-twitter-to-make-history-and-create-the-future-twitter-in-the-classroom/#comment-1202 ahealingvoice Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:26:38 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/using-twitter-to-make-history-and-create-the-future-twitter-in-the-classroom/#comment-1202 Thank you so much for sharing this video. It was so inspiring! The references alone were worth the hour view. So much important information was shared for the University of the Future. Thank you! Thank you so much for sharing this video. It was so inspiring! The references alone were worth the hour view. So much important information was shared for the University of the Future. Thank you!

]]> Comment on Twitter Handbook Cover Contest by Sammy http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/twitter-handbook-cover-contest/#comment-1190 Sammy Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:13:55 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/twitter-handbook-cover-contest/#comment-1190 Entry #8 - It makes best sense to incorporate Twitter's original art in the cover. Entry #8 - It makes best sense to incorporate Twitter’s original art in the cover.

]]> Comment on Build Meaningful Connections By Including Blog Readers as Twitter Friends by Jeanne May http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/build-meaningful-connections-by-including-blog-readers-as-twitter-friends/#comment-1147 Jeanne May Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:46:54 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/build-meaningful-connections-by-including-blog-readers-as-twitter-friends/#comment-1147 Hi... I used to be able to get my tweets onto my blog and my blog posts onto twitter... and then... only the universe knows how or why, I can no longer do so. I've got my blog posts going on to my twitter (which is really really good) but none of my twitter updates appear on my blog. It is all set up and it used to work but now it doesn't. Mind boggling! Jeanne Hi…

I used to be able to get my tweets onto my blog and my blog posts onto twitter… and then… only the universe knows how or why, I can no longer do so. I’ve got my blog posts going on to my twitter (which is really really good) but none of my twitter updates appear on my blog. It is all set up and it used to work but now it doesn’t.

Mind boggling!

Jeanne

]]> Comment on Twitter In the Read World. Who Did You Meet On Twitter.com? by Anita Leafty http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/twitter-in-the-read-world-who-did-you-meet-on-twittercom/#comment-1146 Anita Leafty Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:02:39 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/twitter-in-the-read-world-who-did-you-meet-on-twittercom/#comment-1146 My offline business provides specialized financial services to Charities and Business Owners. Traditional keyword advertising online does not work well, but the same keywords used to search profiles in Twitter led to a very valuable relationship with the editor of a philantrophic publication. I was then able to position our multi-generational endowment specialist as a national expert for a live chat on establishing endowment programs. My offline business provides specialized financial services to Charities and Business Owners. Traditional keyword advertising online does not work well, but the same keywords used to search profiles in Twitter led to a very valuable relationship with the editor of a philantrophic publication. I was then able to position our multi-generational endowment specialist as a national expert for a live chat on establishing endowment programs.

]]> Comment on Does the Fail Whale Eat Tweets? by Keith Aul http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/does-the-fail-whale-eat-tweets/#comment-1145 Keith Aul Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:06:29 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/does-the-fail-whale-eat-tweets/#comment-1145 How about TwitMLS for listing of homes? Keith Aul twitter.com/keithaul How about TwitMLS for listing of homes?

Keith Aul
twitter.com/keithaul

]]> Comment on Twitter Webinar: April 19, 2008 by jeroen http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/twitter-webinar-april-19-2008/#comment-1131 jeroen Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:18:05 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/twitter-webinar-april-19-2008/#comment-1131 Hello people! Nice site! Hello people! Nice site!

]]> Comment on Using Twitter to Make History.. and Create the Future. Twitter in the Classroom by @bobcollier http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/using-twitter-to-make-history-and-create-the-future-twitter-in-the-classroom/#comment-1130 @bobcollier Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:18:10 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/using-twitter-to-make-history-and-create-the-future-twitter-in-the-classroom/#comment-1130 Professor Wesch's students may well "know nothing about how to use these things to learn and for critical thought and more than anything they rarely know how to use these things to create something interesting and new" (his comment about 25 mins into the video), but that doesn't hold true in my experience in the booming home education movement. After all, nobody needs to be sitting in a lecture hall or classroom to use these things, do they? They're totally mobile. Not only has the Digital Revolution given home educators (actually everybody with an internet connection) the same learning tools professional educators have available to them - except we don't have to ask somebody else's permission to use them - the new Web 2.0 tools enable us to find out what professional educators are doing so we can do it too if we choose to. For example, by watching videos like this one. Kind of ironic really. :-) Professor Wesch’s students may well “know nothing about how to use these things to learn and for critical thought and more than anything they rarely know how to use these things to create something interesting and new” (his comment about 25 mins into the video), but that doesn’t hold true in my experience in the booming home education movement. After all, nobody needs to be sitting in a lecture hall or classroom to use these things, do they? They’re totally mobile.

Not only has the Digital Revolution given home educators (actually everybody with an internet connection) the same learning tools professional educators have available to them - except we don’t have to ask somebody else’s permission to use them - the new Web 2.0 tools enable us to find out what professional educators are doing so we can do it too if we choose to.

For example, by watching videos like this one. Kind of ironic really. :-)

]]> Comment on Twitter Webinar: April 19, 2008 by Ron http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/twitter-webinar-april-19-2008/#comment-1128 Ron Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:12:17 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/twitter-webinar-april-19-2008/#comment-1128 Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it! :) Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it! :)

]]> Comment on Using Twitter to Make History.. and Create the Future. Twitter in the Classroom by Skeptic http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/using-twitter-to-make-history-and-create-the-future-twitter-in-the-classroom/#comment-1121 Skeptic Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:09:08 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/using-twitter-to-make-history-and-create-the-future-twitter-in-the-classroom/#comment-1121 This is Maoist education. Distrust the authority and feel that the information produced in a group of equals is more valued. More equal connections does not translate to greater knowledge. That is an unsupported assertion. Meaningful connections between people is not the goal of education and means nothing if the quality of the information processed/shared is not considered and the mass amount of information on the net is not necessarily quality info. For example, many megabites are devoted to pornography. Look at how much really legitimate, academic sources are available on the web. Not many. Although, I grant you that it is growing. Group annotation of a summary of Wallerstein does not substitute for an individual reading of Wallerstein. Which if they don't like reading and they don't like school and they don't close the computer and get off Facebook and Wikis they will never read. Nor am I convinced that the majority of students are participating in the creation of the wiki. Most are skipping class and skimming the review sheet before the exam, I would guess. I have to argue that this approach is not as revolutionary or impressive as everyone assumes. Apply some critical thinking to the presentation. The assertions are not supported by reality. And, finally, the Margaret Mead quote has never been verified as coming from her. I don't think if she did say it she intended it to represent the small group that conquered the world through empire-building. And the simulation hardly supports an alternative view. Like I said, apply some critical thinking. This is Maoist education. Distrust the authority and feel that the information produced in a group of equals is more valued. More equal connections does not translate to greater knowledge.
That is an unsupported assertion. Meaningful connections between people is not the goal of education and means nothing if the quality of the information processed/shared is not considered and the mass amount of information on the net is not necessarily quality info. For example, many megabites are devoted to pornography. Look at how much really legitimate, academic sources are available on the web. Not many. Although, I grant you that it is growing.

Group annotation of a summary of Wallerstein does not substitute for an individual reading of Wallerstein. Which if they don’t like reading and they don’t like school and they don’t close the computer and get off Facebook and Wikis they will never read. Nor am I convinced that the majority of students are participating in the creation of the wiki. Most are skipping class and skimming the review sheet before the exam, I would guess.

I have to argue that this approach is not as revolutionary or impressive as everyone assumes. Apply some critical thinking to the presentation. The assertions are not supported by reality.

And, finally, the Margaret Mead quote has never been verified as coming from her. I don’t think if she did say it she intended it to represent the small group that conquered the world through empire-building. And the simulation hardly supports an alternative view. Like I said, apply some critical thinking.

]]> Comment on Build Meaningful Connections By Including Blog Readers as Twitter Friends by Eric Miltsch http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/build-meaningful-connections-by-including-blog-readers-as-twitter-friends/#comment-1118 Eric Miltsch Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:57:15 +0000 http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/build-meaningful-connections-by-including-blog-readers-as-twitter-friends/#comment-1118 I've tried to cross connect my blog & website with my mini-interview series. The participants has re-tweeted their posts as well as posting on their blogs. I push the links out via Ping.fm, blog posts and add'l tweets as well... See all of the responses here: http://www.TweetandGreet.com I’ve tried to cross connect my blog & website with my mini-interview series.

The participants has re-tweeted their posts as well as posting on their blogs. I push the links out via Ping.fm, blog posts and add’l tweets as well…

See all of the responses here: http://www.TweetandGreet.com

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