Exploring Twitter for global comment and personal learning.

1. Twitter up!

2. the world tweets about about Twitter

3. and talks about Facebook

4. are we quitting Facebook?

5. a wide range of ‘social media’ tweets, but the Trend graph is all about quitting fb

6. ‘social media’ advocacy, jobs, marketing with web 3.0

7. 9.30pm AEST, south eastern Australia is trending umbrellas, Masterchef and Stosur

8. inner city Sydney is watching tennis and talking music

9. job advertisements and cameras purchases

10. movies and green advocacy

11. and Sydney’s web 3.0 conference

12. in regional NSW Albury is tweeting TV, gaming, weather and popular religion

13. 10pm AEST, the south east is still trending Masterchef, but also Sydney’s web 3.0 conference

14. the night of Roland Garros 2010 and the talk is almost all Samantha Stosur

15. trending worldwide

16. so many tweets from the same person … do people watch, listen and engage? or just comment?

17. victory for Schiavone brings global discussion not quite so much in Australia!

18. We are allbroadcasting

19. too much talking?

20. “I don’t hear a word they’re saying, only the echoes of my mind” ‘Everybody’s talking at me’, Harry Nilsson, 1969

21. what interests me?

22. a basic search for workplace ‘mentions’ finds 3 relevant tweets 2 events and 1 recommendation

23. Twitter works well for events

24. frequent tweets and a lot of shared images of Vivid Festival in Sydney

25. Geochirp maps very frequent Sydney Film Festival discussion

26. so be particular reduce noise increase personal learning become ‘twitterate’!

27. a basic search for ‘information literacy’ finds a lot of activity

28. searching TweepML lists finds a lot of librarians

29. not many Australian lists so I created one! will others join?

30. browsing my network

31. exploring contacts

32. adding ‘friends of friends’

33. is this true? many people and many parts of the world do not have a social media voice, but the knowledge and interests I do hear always challenge me to look further …

34. back to second life …

35. off to more unconferences … (excitement! my first replies)

36. into the challenging world of km …

37. following resource sharing … (and collecting useful hashtags)

38. collecting expert opinion …

39. finding collaboration and kindness

40. and learning on the run!

41. photography by Phillipa