Clarify Me » Twitter http://cthompson.edublogs.org Thinking about technology and education Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:26:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Making Twitter Work For Me http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/making-twitter-work-for-me/ http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/making-twitter-work-for-me/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:02:04 +0000 Claire Thompson http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/making-twitter-work-for-me/ Back in January I wrote about Tools and Sites I Use, and I mentioned that I would like to try Twitter, but I had my concerns (intimidated, worried I’d get sucked into the abyss, etc) After that post Sarah Stewart and I decided to take the plunge. It took me awhile to feel confident enough to tweet, but I did start to get into the groove. Then I just stopped. The problem was I was using Twitter by logging on to the Twitter site. This was cumbersome so I just stopped.

After reading various posts on Twitter (eg here) I realized that I needed a browser extension for Twitter. I knew that Sue Waters uses Snitter, and Clay Burell was a TwitBin guy. I checked both extensions out and decided to go with Twitbin.

I’m now back in my Twitter groove! Twitbin is great! I downloaded the Twitbin extension for Firefox and I now have a cute little Twitbin bookmarklet and it is so easy to get my “live” Twitter window up (see image below). Now I just need to work on building up my network. If your interested in following me on Twitter I’m clthompson; I’d be happy to reciprocate :-)

Twitbin

]]> http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/making-twitter-work-for-me/feed/ 4 Finding my voice on Twitter http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/01/26/finding-my-voice-on-twitter/ http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/01/26/finding-my-voice-on-twitter/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:13:30 +0000 Claire Thompson http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/01/26/finding-my-voice-on-twitter/ I’ve been on Twitter for a couple of weeks now, and I am pleased to see that my network is growing–a big thank you to Sue Waters for asking the folks in her network to follow me! I’ve been enjoying reading the tweets and finding out quickly what people are up to and followingGag the links they provide. My challenge right now is finding my voice. So far I feel like I’ve been lurking. I feel like I need to have something really important say, which is silly since there’s some pretty everyday things that people comment on. Perhaps it is just that I don’t know the people in my network very well yet, but I know that will change :-)

Image: gag by G. Rohs

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