Tag 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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How NOT to Handle Social Media Critics

By Lee Aase | Published: November 29, 2011
The governor of Kansas has realized (although belatedly) that his staff mishandled the case of a teen constituent and her disrespectful tweet. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — When a high school senior tweeted that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback “sucked,” among other invectives, reaction at the state Capitol led her principal to demand an apology. Instead, it [...]
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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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