Okay, so here is my first post. I'm only posting now because I've only just realized, from looking at other blogs, that blog posts don't have to be huge paragraphs discussing my day. Now I've looked at other blogs and realized that posts can kind of look like tweets - just a couple sentences talking about my latest thought.
Let me introduce myself: my name's Diana, and this is my blog. This blog is going to record my journey as I attempt to learn all about Web 2.0. I can't promise it'll be interesting, but I can promise that it'll be honest.
So far, I'm on facebook and twitter. My plans for this week are to join the google thing, and one more social networking website. My biggest question: who reads this stuff? Who has the time to read other people's tweets? Do people log in to their computers, sit down with a coffee, and read through tweets? I'm following about thirty people right now, and went away for the weekend. I came back and there were something close to three billion tweets waiting for me to read.
My other question: who would care to read about ME?
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I have! I feel the same way. I am thinking that it's not about us per se, but our students and our professional development.
ReplyDeleteHow do we make ourselves a community of learners and develop our own understanding within education and libraries :)?without compromising the size of our rear ends
Hi Diana...I do sit down with my coffee and read other people's tweets and blog posts!!! That sounds a lot like my morning routine.
ReplyDeleteOne piece of advice I would give you about 'catching up' is to not do it. Twitter really is a 'real' time kind of thing. Just ignore anything old and don't try to catch up. You don't have to read everything. I do a lot of skimming and scanning of twitter and only follow links that sound interesting. I probably spend 30 minutes per day on it, spread out over the day. I have a colleague who only logs in at night and skims/scans for about 10 minutes. Similarly, with blogs, I sometimes fall behind on my reading in Google Reader (when I was away for 2 weeks, I didn't log in once. I had 1000+ posts to catch up on). So, I just mark all as read and start all over again. This is YOUR professional development and you get to make the rules!
Thanks for the advice! It really helps to see how other people are incorporating this technology into their daily routines.
ReplyDeleteAlso, apparently the theory is that if you do something every day for three weeks it will become a "habit" and you won't even think about it anymore . . .