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The Basics on Effectively Using Twitter!!
"To participate in any community, first you need to know the langage. And we can all be thankful that there are only a handful of 'insider' terms you need to know in order to be a functioning member of the Twitter community."
-DM: Direct Message
A DM allows you to directly communicate with someone else where no one else will see the conversation but the two of you.
-the @ symbol
Including this symbol before a Twitter ID allows you to "mention" someone where it shows up directly to them. (for example @guyreel)
-Tweet: As a verb it means sending a message on Twitter; as a noun it means the message sent or received.
-RT: Retweet, meaning copying someone else's tweet and posting it so your followers can see it, too
-TL: the space where the tweets of all your followers are located
-Hashtag: A common label for any tweet that should be tied together with others' tweets, preceded by a # symbol; especially effective for a news event or a conference (for example, #MCOM226) this hashtag allows easy access to find all tweets related to this subject when inserted into the search box.
-There are four main things you can do on Twitter:
1. post a message: It's easy,but there's a 140- character limit.
2. read other people's messages:It's easy, too, since the messages of the people you follow automatically display
3. reply to other people's messages: If you want to reply to someone, simply add the "@"
4. send and receive direct messages: click "Direct Messages" and select from the drop-down menu the person you wish to communicate with. That person will receive an e-mail notification regardin the receipt of a direct message, and the message is not public.
**Find a group of people to follow.
-Go to search.twitter.com and search for terms you are interested in. When you find a post that looks interesting, you should add him or her to your feed.
-Now posts from those people will appear on your Twitter. When someone reposts another post, follow it and you'll probably find someone else new to follow. Following just a few new people everyday will quickly increase your followers.
**HAPPY TWEETINGG!!**
Cited: Briggs, Mark. Journalism Next. Washington: CQ Press, 2010. Print.
-DM: Direct Message
A DM allows you to directly communicate with someone else where no one else will see the conversation but the two of you.
-the @ symbol
Including this symbol before a Twitter ID allows you to "mention" someone where it shows up directly to them. (for example @guyreel)
-Tweet: As a verb it means sending a message on Twitter; as a noun it means the message sent or received.
-RT: Retweet, meaning copying someone else's tweet and posting it so your followers can see it, too
-TL: the space where the tweets of all your followers are located
-Hashtag: A common label for any tweet that should be tied together with others' tweets, preceded by a # symbol; especially effective for a news event or a conference (for example, #MCOM226) this hashtag allows easy access to find all tweets related to this subject when inserted into the search box.
-There are four main things you can do on Twitter:
1. post a message: It's easy,but there's a 140- character limit.
2. read other people's messages:It's easy, too, since the messages of the people you follow automatically display
3. reply to other people's messages: If you want to reply to someone, simply add the "@"
4. send and receive direct messages: click "Direct Messages" and select from the drop-down menu the person you wish to communicate with. That person will receive an e-mail notification regardin the receipt of a direct message, and the message is not public.
**Find a group of people to follow.
-Go to search.twitter.com and search for terms you are interested in. When you find a post that looks interesting, you should add him or her to your feed.
-Now posts from those people will appear on your Twitter. When someone reposts another post, follow it and you'll probably find someone else new to follow. Following just a few new people everyday will quickly increase your followers.
**HAPPY TWEETINGG!!**
Cited: Briggs, Mark. Journalism Next. Washington: CQ Press, 2010. Print.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Write up of Advanced Blogging
PROF. REEL,
I had this last class but got so caught up with finishing my video, and forgot to turn it in. I do have an actual print out but I put it on here just to prove to you that I did do it.
So sorry, Brittaney
Brittaney Major
MCOM 226
Professor Reel
1 February 2012
After reading the chapter on Advanced Blogging, I know see the techniques that major bloggers use. Since blogging is one of the most recent types of journalistic publication, there is still some debate on how to effectively blog news stories. How frequently it should be updated, whether there should be more than one contributor to a blog, what the layout will look like, whether or not to allow audience feedback/comments, whether or not to use photos/videos/screenshots to describe the story, etc. All in all, this chapter discussed exactly how blogging got started and some of the main rules that have been discovered so far.
In the three blogs that I looked at, specifically perezhilton.com, momsandbabies.com and fashiongonerogue.com, they obeyed most of the rules observed in this chapter. To start off, the theme or topic of the blog was clear and consistent throughout the entire webpage. Additionally, it was easy for the user to figure out how to navigate around the blog site. There were clear links to navigate from one section to another. Some attributed to full articles on topics that were discussed throughout the blogs, while some others were links to pictures, videos or surveys. The writers of all three blogs had content that was believable. On Perez Hilton’s website, he did a really good job with his “scanability.” There were many places where a quote or a headline would stick out so that if a reader was just scrolling through, their eye would easily get caught on something. For Moms and Babies, there is a picture for each blurb which could help a user identify quickly while scanning.
So sorry, Brittaney
Brittaney Major
MCOM 226
Professor Reel
1 February 2012
After reading the chapter on Advanced Blogging, I know see the techniques that major bloggers use. Since blogging is one of the most recent types of journalistic publication, there is still some debate on how to effectively blog news stories. How frequently it should be updated, whether there should be more than one contributor to a blog, what the layout will look like, whether or not to allow audience feedback/comments, whether or not to use photos/videos/screenshots to describe the story, etc. All in all, this chapter discussed exactly how blogging got started and some of the main rules that have been discovered so far.
In the three blogs that I looked at, specifically perezhilton.com, momsandbabies.com and fashiongonerogue.com, they obeyed most of the rules observed in this chapter. To start off, the theme or topic of the blog was clear and consistent throughout the entire webpage. Additionally, it was easy for the user to figure out how to navigate around the blog site. There were clear links to navigate from one section to another. Some attributed to full articles on topics that were discussed throughout the blogs, while some others were links to pictures, videos or surveys. The writers of all three blogs had content that was believable. On Perez Hilton’s website, he did a really good job with his “scanability.” There were many places where a quote or a headline would stick out so that if a reader was just scrolling through, their eye would easily get caught on something. For Moms and Babies, there is a picture for each blurb which could help a user identify quickly while scanning.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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