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How can scientists use twitter as a tool? How live tweeting and the use of twitter can break down the geographic barriers of scientific collaboration. A simple how-to, as a part of the Social Media for Scientists Symposia at WA-BC AFS/ SER NW/BC joint annual meeting in Victoria, BC. Check out the wiki for resources to help you get started with social media at http://restoration2012.wikispaces.com/
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by Jessie Hale
#rest12
What is Twitter?
Twitter is what you make of it, what you view depends on who you follow
What is a tweet?Handle
What is a tweet?
Avatar
What is a tweet?
Hashtag
What is a tweet?
Link
What is a tweet?
Mention
Hashtags & Handles:Twitter Jargon
Hashtags & Handles:Twitter Jargon
Hashtags & Handles:Twitter Jargon
How to Use Hashtags
Conferences
How to Use Hashtags
Networks
How to Use Hashtags
Keywords & Topics
What is Live Tweeting?
• Live-tweet (v.): to engage on Twitter for a continuous period of time—anywhere from 20 minutes to a few hours—with a sequence of focused Tweets
The World’s Deepest Tweet: #DeepSeaChallenge
The World’s Deepest Tweet: #DeepSeaChallenge
Why Should you Live Tweet?
“Twitter provides one the most important online tools
to bring together researchers despite
discipline or geography to share information about
science” – Dr. Craig McClain
What should you live tweet about?
• Summarize
• Add
• Ask questions
• Images
Live Tweeting Best Practices
• Use a hashtag to announce to your followers that you will be live tweeting a certain conference
• Each tweet should stand alone as much as possible
Live Tweeting Best Practices
• Laptop distracting to others, sit it back
• Polite to ask presenter
• If you are in a conference where you are worried about the presenter or the audience not knowing what you are doing, ask for announcement of hashtag
• Just do it!
