Comments on: Using Twitter for Student Bloggers

By: Schedule

Schedule — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:07:27 +0000

Maybe you could make changes to the page name SquaredPeg » Blog Archive » Using Twitter for Student Bloggers to something more suited for your blog post you write. I enjoyed the blog post even sononetheless.

By: Viagra

Viagra — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:38:57 +0000

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By: relilymn

relilymn — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:54:35 +0000

well.. it’s like I thought!

By: Brad J. Ward

Brad J. Ward — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:10:55 +0000

@Jeremy – do you have a link to that article? I’d like to check it out. Looking forward to seeing how this goes too.

@Jon – The stability kills me too. Like the day I posted this, Twitter was down for several hours and so I just had a big blue box on my site. Frustrating. I think the community will DEMAND stability, and Twitter will provide. It might take some time, but we’ll get there.

I like how you sum it up – the less they know, the better. Great thought.

An addendum to the blog post – 4 students were excited about Twitter, etc, and the 5th emailed me back this:
“Ummm…I don’t get it – what is this Twitter thing and why are we making a big deal out of it/how is it going to help with the blogs?”

What a great question for me to have to think about. I love how my bloggers constantly challenge me and make me think about WHY I am asking them to do things (YouTube, flip cams, Twitter, etc.). Coming from 18-22 year olds, it’s exactly the type of checks and balances that I need to have.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:59:26 +0000

As a platform, I think twitter is here to stay for awhile – and why I think you’ve found a pratical use for it now.

I’m still hesitant on the stability and consumer buy-in, at least until they move from Rails back to Java and the cloud so we can stop seeing outages every other day.

As a tool for HigherEd, certainly has potential – I know our journalism newsroom is now using it to monitor leads in the local twitter community to both collect and distribute stories with students.

However for admissions, your on the right track – the less they know they are using service and integrate into an experience they already know (such as butler bloggers), the better.

Kudos Brad.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:14:39 +0000

@Jeremy Wilburn – I think the beauty of Twitter is that it’s simple — you don’t have to be techie to use it. Posting on a blog scares some of the “subject experts” (and takes way more time), but the same people aren’t afraid to enter 140 characters or less and hit update a few times a week. Perhaps your blogger who don’t blog would find Twitter easier to swallow.

By: Jeremy Wilburn

Jeremy Wilburn — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:49:55 +0000

An article came out just earlier this week about Twitter saying that it was becoming more accepted. Whether or not I believe that, I don’t know, but I think what you’re doing with your bloggers is a great idea. I’d given up on using Twitter for recruitment because I couldn’t find a good use for it. I thought about using the bloggers to start it, but then I realized they don’t even BLOG, so they probably wouldn’t be the best candidates… I guess maybe it depends upon how “techie” your students are and Springfield may not be the place. I say good work finding a good way to use it. Lets see if it actually catches on.

By: Brad J. Ward

Brad J. Ward — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:15:55 +0000

@Todd – keep us updated on that for sure, sounds like a great idea.

@Kyle – ‘ba da ba ba ba….. I’m lovin’ it.’

@Scott – Let us know when you’re ready to take the Twitter plunge! Interesting though on the groups, I hadn’t thought of that being offered through Twitter. Will definitely change how we use it.

@Andrew – Forever etched into the walls of the internet. The one thing about Twitter vs. Facebook is adaptability. I could not pull out my current blogger’s Facebook statuses to the blog. BUT, I can pull their Twitter status, and they can then push their Twitter status to their Facebook status. I love the openness of the site. Let us know if he takes you up on the offer. We’ll help you convert him.

By: Andrew Careaga

Andrew Careaga — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:39:54 +0000

Good ideas. I still get a chuckle at your comment on my blog from last fall.

Twitter status updates can also be incorporated into Facebook pages, but as a soon-to-be-former student assistant in our office said in a wall post on my Facebook page: “Dude. What’s the point?”

What he really said was:

so with twitter… you use it to show your status with a few sentences… but what i dont understand is… why have a seperate site for just your status.. when every other site/social community already has one… does it set your status on all of them? perhaps i should just check it out… but i dont think i can bring myself to it.. so maybe you can convince me..

To which I replied:

Good questions about Twitter. I’m not sure I can explain its allure. You just have to try it out for yourself. Set up an account and then add me.

So far, he’s yet to take me up on the offer.

By: Scott Henderson

Scott Henderson — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:39:05 +0000

Good move with bringing it into the blog page. Twitter seems to be at its best when your feeding it into places where people are already. Even though I’ve been hesitant to jump on the Twitter band wagon, I’ve come to realize that it’s a deeper level of authenticity and something we’re going to find extremely useful.

As Twitter roles out the capability to create groups (expect that in next 30-60 days), I think you’ll find it to be even more relevant. Just think about how admissions can benefit from creating group categories for high school counselors, potential parents, prospective students, etc.

Sure it’s still early in its growth curve, but as more people adopt it, why not be ready for it? If you integrate it into your overall strategy, I think you’ll find the synergy.