Twitter in Plain English

Ok I’ve been a bad blogger. I need to post on a more regular basis I know or my blog visitors will quickly lose interest. Maybe it will be easier for me to be a regular twitterer (? tweeter?) than a blogger. I first heard about twitter more than a year ago, but didn’t really get it.

Today NTEN had a webinar about twitter and I have a better understanding of how it is best used. More than 1 million people use twitter. I’m really looking forward to using it at the upcoming NTEN conference because that way I can read tweets from people who are in the same sessions I’m in or in sessions I’m missing at the moment or I can hear about where everyone is meeting after sessions for some great New Orleans food and drinks. For me one of the best ways to learn about technology tools is just to try them out so here it is late on a Friday night and I’m having fun updating my blog and scrolling through some strange and interesting tweets from everywhere in the world – of course I can’t understand some of them since they are in foreign languages.

Anyway, If you haven’t ever heard of twitter, check out this great video that explains it in plain English and shares one simple way to use it to stay connected with friends and colleagues and people with similar interests. Also check out my twitter page and this great radio discussion about “why twitter” that aired on On Point about a year ago.

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