1. What the Tweet?: @AcAdvChat &
the #AcAdv Community Using
Twitter for Professional
Development
@bilmorrill @peacox @howardsj

2. Advisors Are Connected

3. How We Stay Connected Personal Learning
Networks

4. The Social Web

5. Learning in the Social Web

6. PD & Training on Demand

7. What’s a Twitter Chat? Twitter Chat
Opportunity to share expertise
& learn from a community

8. What’s a Twitter Chat? • A LIVE conversation on Twitter
• A threaded dialogue
• A specific date & time
• Contains a topic and/or theme
• Grown out of discussion boards
• Interest groups, associations,
organizations & more
• Question & Response posting
• Connects to an identity or trend
• The chat is connected via a hashtag

9. What Is A Hashtag?

10. What’s #AcAdv Chat?
#AcAdv Chat
http://acadvchat.posterous.com

11. How did #AcAdv Chat Start?
Before #nacada10:
#AcAdv Twitter conversation started to grow
During #nacada10:
Tweet-Up + Backchannel + Advisors = GOOD

12. How did #AcAdv Chat Start?
After #nacada10:

13. How Did #AcAdv Chat Start?

14. What’s #AcAdv Chat? • Guided conversation on academic advising
• New topics for discussion each week
• MOD (moderator) asks 4-6 questions
• ONE 60 minute chat per week
• Participants respond with Q# in their
status update
• e.g. Q1: [Answer to question 1]
• Answers: ideas, resources & sharing
Are you following the conversation?
http://twitter.com/#!/acadvchat

15. The #AcAdv Chat Team

16. A Key Tool for Our PLN Twitter
http://twitter.com/

17. How can I get involved? Low Impact:
Read chat transcripts
Medium Impact:
Set up a Twitter account
Search for #AcAdv hashtag
Post advising-related content as you wish
“Lurk” during a chat, Tuesdays from 12-1 pm CST
High Impact:
Set up a Twitter account
Search for #AcAdv hashtag
Chime in with your thoughts/opinions/experiences
during a chat, Tuesdays from 12-1 pm CST

18. Alt Pro Dev Why Engage in Alternative
Professional Development?
• PD on daily basis
• Shrinking budgets
• Routine: stay up-to-date on relevant issues
• Build PLN
• Don’t operate in a vacuum
• Stay fresh

19. There Are MANY Twitter Chats
http://bitly.com/TwitterChatSchedule

20. #AcAdv Chat Tools of the Trade

21. TwtPoll

22. Twitter & TweetChat

23. Posterous Blog

24. Facebook

25. The #AcAdv Chat Archive

26. {Embrace Code}

27. How’s #AcAdv Chat Going?
Image courtesy Colin_K: http://www.flickr.com/photos/colinkinner/2200500024/sizes/o/in/photostream/

28. Twitter:
Stats
62 chats to date
average participant range: 15-20
average number of tweets: 175-200
Blog:
12,500+ page views on acadvchat.posterous.com
roughly 50% of views are for chat transcripts
Facebook:
reaching up to 300 people per month
numbers vary depending on chat schedule

29. Tell Us How You Really Feel

30. How can I get involved? Low Impact:
Read chat transcripts
Medium Impact:
Set up a Twitter account
Search for #AcAdv hashtag
Post advising-related content as you wish
“Lurk” during a chat, Tuesdays from 12-1 pm CST
High Impact:
Set up a Twitter account
Search for #AcAdv hashtag
Chime in with your thoughts/opinions/experiences
during a chat, Tuesdays from 12-1 pm CST

31. Next Steps
• Other places to chat
– NACADA webinars
– Google+
– #AcAdv and #sachat blogs
– Staying ACTIVE on Twitter
• Future of #AcAdv
• New moderators
• Guest moderators: individual, groups
• Idea? Bring ‘em!