What's your Twitter account worth?

Checked out one more of the plethora of Twitter tools.
It's called, 'What's your Twitter account worth?'
Apparently its worth $112 and my rank is #18961 out of 102437)

I guess it's something to do with the fact that major search engines are now trawling the twitterverse and integrating relevant tweets into results to add that 'real-time' or near critical and much valued element to searches.
Or?

$112

Created by WhatsMyTwitterAccountWorth.com

Another couple of interesting Twitter tools are the TPS or Tweet Positioning System which adds a spatial dimension to conversations and Snap Bird to help re-find the tweets that got away!

Social Media and Learning2.0

The use of Social Media, so popular for social networking, is expanding into business, government and education worlds. Many companies are beginning to embrace the use of new social networking / media tools for promotion, marketing, engagement and interaction with clients and staff development but approaches and guidelines vary. These reports and resources outline a few examples.

Many educators see the potential of social media / web2.0 for teaching and learning and their own professional learning but access is often restricted in schools and filtering is an issue, as discussed in many blog posts.

As use of social media becomes more widespread in the community, learning2.0 research reports are of interest, including 'Learning 2.0: The Impact of Web 2.0 Innovations on Education and Training in Europe' - Final Report (2009) - European Commission Joint Research Centre. This 'describes how the emergence of new technologies can foster development of innovative practices.' It provides pointers for new directions and opportunities using new tools and new approaches in teaching and learning.

The Australian Government Gov2 taskforce is about to release a report, 'Engage -- Getting on with Government 2.0', which is expected to outline how the use of new social media technologies can help to make public sector services more efficient and to better meet the needs of the community.

Image by woodleywonderworks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/3328850666

Telstra (Australia) has come up with a new staff training guide for social media, the 3Rs of social engagement, for their 40,000 employees, as outlined in a recent post on Mashable. The '3Rs' are identified as responsibility, respect & representation. This online training package includes a comic style flip book with media clips.

The 'Ten Commandments of Social Media' by Robb Clarke aims to provide an easy to read personal guide to operating in an ethical manner, to not only 'make you a better person' but to also ensure a 'more appreciative' bunch of followers. Again, ethics are highlighted.

Social media, eg Twitter, is a vital component of developing and nurturing an educator's professional learning network (PLN) in a connected world and for lifelong learning in the digital age.

Twitter for Busy People

Twitter for Busy People is one of my favourite Twitter tools. This tool allows me to save my Twitter user name and quickly access the last tweet from the people I follow on Twitter.

It organises tweets by last hour, last day last week... in a visual and appealing interface. I have used t4bp for many months now and find it really useful.
Just hover over any person's image/avatar and their latest tweet comes into view.

A very handy tool for quick updates on the go and checking on members of my PLN.

Twtpoll (Twitter access)

Users of the popular microblogging site, Twitter, can access their account using a variety of tools or twittertools, via the Twitter website, phone and mobile apps.

What do you use most frequently when you access Twitter?
Mobile options are grouped under mobile and some of the possibly lesser known twittertools have been grouped as 'Other' to keep the number of choices to a reasonable number.







Try the Twtpoll. (Closes July 31, 2009)

The shift (Social > Media)

The shift is on.
This Slideshare by @skytland, Social > Media, provides a highly visual presentation, combined with apt quotes and comments on the topic of Social Media. If you need a quick fix on understanding the global phenomenon of social media, this presentation is a good start!

It highlights the shift (towards real-time) ... asks why do we care? and provides a range of examples of social media used to support communication, knowledge and data sharing, collaboration, transparency, authenticity, networking, visibility and engagement.

Lo and behold, it even contains Astro_Mike and reveals how he was able to tweet from space (via e-mail to NASA).

Social > Media

View more OpenOffice presentations from Nick Skytland.

Thanks, Nick Skytland for highlighting the shift and sharing your thoughts.

Real-time tracking

New social media tools, third party applications and mashups provide tools to enable real-time tracking, search and access to global conversations and news. They can facilitate social networking and development of professional learning networks (PLN).

One example is the Track Twitter Now tool (mashup) which provides a simple search facility to track real-time (Twitter) tweets across the globe. These are displayed on an interactive map and tweets from selected locations can be viewed and followed up.

I tried search terms such as Moodle. It's amazing to see the number and pattern of tweets happening on different topics. Time of day and hemisphere influence this as well.

Another tool is Track This Now for real-time news. I created a widget from a search for Adelaide, Australia news. (see below)



Another mashup I tried out was the nifty flash slideshow, Flickr Flip Book. This allows a search on a topic or tag for photos uploaded to Flickr.

I used terms such as Adelaide, then edutweet, southoz and tweets, with varying numbers of photos and settings in the slideshow.

This tool is easy to use and the slideshow display looks good (it gathers information from the description, tags and comments associated with the photos). It would benefit from being able to select more parameters for the photos and gaining an embed source code.

Some of my Flickr photos came up under the search term 'southoz' as well as well as some photos posted by Alison (@theother66) from the Adelaide edutweet gathering last month. Thanks, Alison.

The proliferation of tools eg third party applications using Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps etc has added the valuable dimension of real-time (or near) tracking, connections, participation and collaboration.

Multi-tasking (@infinitecomic)

Time out for some fun!
Tried the keyword, 'multitasking' in this online tool, the Infinite Monkey Comics random comic generator, infinite comic, a mashup of Flickr and Twitter (after a tweet from @josiefraser).
Check the result.

It weaves a story around Twitter apps, Nambu and TweetDeck, and the multi-tasking element of babysitting and twittering or is that tweeting and snoozing?
A second round, using multitaskin' produced this result.

Comics can be tweeted back to @infinitecomic.

Twitter Mosaic

Nifty visualization of my Twitter Mosaic (friends) via the third party application: sxoop.

Get your twitter mosaic here.