{"id":320,"date":"2009-12-08T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T15:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=320"},"modified":"2009-12-08T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T15:02:01","slug":"twitter-as-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Twitter as coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another set of notes from Handheld Learning finally making it into my blog.<\/p>\n<p>This is from a talk by James Clay. He argues that Twitter is about the community having coffee together and having a conversation. Like coffee-break chat, it&#8217;s a stream you dip into and it&#8217;s a leveller that can improve efficeincy within an organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Within Twitter you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Share links<\/li>\n<li>Collaborate<\/li>\n<li>Share blogs and news<\/li>\n<li>Crowdsource<\/li>\n<li>Backchannel<\/li>\n<li>Find out what&#8217;s happening<\/li>\n<li>Chat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tweeting makes your job bigger and smarter and faster.<\/p>\n<p>With Google you have to do the searching, but with Twitter the information comes to you, and you have the opportunity to dip into other people&#8217;s communities. If you do ask questions you may get a lot of responses, and those responses are likely to have authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another set of notes from Handheld Learning finally making it into my blog. This is from a talk by James Clay. He argues that Twitter is about the community having coffee together and having a conversation. Like coffee-break chat, it&#8217;s a stream you dip into and it&#8217;s a leveller that can improve efficeincy within an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,7,6],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-learning-communities","category-virtual-communities","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}