Category Archives: Twitter

Teachers Tweeting for Support and Inspiration

By Lee Aase | Published: January 21, 2012
Today’s Washington Post has a nice story about how teachers are using Twitter to connect with each other and get just-in-time training. Here’s an excerpt: After her first year teaching history in a public high school in the District, Jamie Josephson was exhausted and plagued by self-doubt. Teaching had been more grueling than she ever [...]
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When You Absolutely, Positively Need to Reach Someone Quickly

By Lee Aase | Published: January 4, 2012
In the last week, I’ve needed to get in touch with a few people via email about a social media project. For a few of them, I was missing email addresses so needed to contact the participants first by some other means to ask them to send their email addresses. For Contact #1, I knew we [...]
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Twitter 202: Selectively adding Tweets to LinkedIn

By Lee Aase | Published: October 21, 2011
At our Mayo Clinic Social Media Residency, fellow faculty member Meredith Gould (who is a great humanitarian, by the way), shamed several of us for linking our Twitter profiles to LinkedIn, and for having Twitter updates automatically posted to our LinkedIn profiles. I think that for many of us for whom Twitter is our “mother [...]
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Widgets for a New Project

By Lee Aase | Published: June 20, 2011
I’m working on an interesting new project, and we want to include some Mayo Clinic-related widgets in the sidebar. Here’s an example of one for Twitter: I look forward to sharing information on the project as we’re ready to roll it out. For now, this is just my way of showing colleagues how this widget [...]
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Twitter 310: Custom URL Shortening Case Study

By Lee Aase | Published: January 4, 2011
So you want to get a custom-shortened URL for your Tweets. How do you do it? This post builds upon Twitter 210, and provides the answer. By watching the video below and following along with the slide presentation, you will see step-by-step how I created the leeaase.me custom short domain, and how you can do [...]
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