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Why Use Twitter
I've been asked this question a lot lately, and I ended up not having lunch plans today, so I used my lunch break to throw this together. :)
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- Slide 1: why use twitter? a slideshare presentation by lauren pressley
- Slide 2: that’s a common question lately
- Slide 3: …with no easy answer…
- Slide 4: twitter is different for different people
- Slide 5: a place to hang out
- Slide 6: stay online throughout the day: • find out what people are thinking about • learn what your friends do in moments of down time • laugh at brand-new memes • share photos and blog posts in real time
- Slide 7: a place to meet people
- Slide 8: lots of people use twitter! • old friends • classmates • colleagues • family • potential friends
- Slide 9: a place to network
- Slide 10: follow colleagues! • find out what’s going on in colleagues’ work lives • share ideas and brainstorm • find out who will be at conferences • find people to co-present or write with
- Slide 11: a human search engine
- Slide 12: add enough people and you have your own search engine! • ask for recommendations on products • ask if people have tried your idea • ask for input for presentations
- Slide 13: a window to what people are thinking
- Slide 14: twitter has a tracking feature that lets you see what people are saying about your topic of interest! track a word like “library” and see every time the word is mentioned!
- Slide 15: a way to bridge internet and phone
- Slide 16: you can see your messages on the internet and on your phone! • see family members and close friends on your phone and everyone else on the web • if you’ll be away from the web, you can get all your tweets on your phone standard rates do apply
- Slide 17: a place to experiment
- Slide 18: twitter is still fairly new, you can come up with new uses! • try an account for marketing purposes • see how it works for business communications • see if you think the text message feature is useful • share your successes with the twitter community!
- Slide 19: what could it be for you?
- Slide 20: you’ll have to give it a go to find out!
- Slide 21: photo credits • • Human Search Engine: Question: http://flickr.com/photos/mworrell/266913194 http://flickr.com/photos/c2k2e/108326319 • Rubic’s cube: • Windows: http://flickr.com/photos/bitterlysweet/33358201/ http://flickr.com/photos/marioraffin/36841 • London: http://flickr.com/photos/olivierclaurent/764482764/ • Internet & phone: • Cheers bar: http://flickr.com/photos/daviddmuir/40716 http://flickr.com/photos/itodd76/750818704/ • Meet: • Experiment: http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/253927535/ http://flickr.com/photos/malingering/1337 • Network: http://flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/194769725/ • Lady: http://flickr.com/photos/meredithfarmer/4 • Twitter whale: http://flickr.com/photos/injelea/21167191
