As of recently, we have experienced an explosion of higher ed Twitter users. At the same time, twitter has become a crucial social media tool. Therefore, many of our twitter streams have become overwhelmed with multiple discussions. At times, I have wished for a way to only "listen" to select groups of individuals
Enter CrowdStatus.com. This tool allows you to create groups of Twitter users. The nice feature is that I can create a group, and then share the URL so everyone can take advantage of the same group.
On one page, you can see the latest updates from everyone in your group. It's a great way to get a snapshot of what is going on. It would be nice if the service refreshed each user as new tweets happened; however functionality is limited for the alpha release.
My first group: Higher Ed. I captured all the users from the UWEBD discussion, and added a few Twitterers I have been following to the list. You can check it out at: http://crowdstatus.com/HigherEdcrowd.aspx. Use the comments of this post to let me know if I missed you; I'll put you on there right away. Hopefully this will be useful.
(BTW, anyone with protected updates [Brad, FJ] can't be added to the stream)
Sunday, April 13, 2008
HigherEd Twitter Crowds
Posted by Seth Meranda at 11:08 PM
Tags: communication, highedweb, information, interests, social networking, twitter
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Nice one Seth, I'm still figuring out Twitter myself (I'm 'designdyke') and have yet to get too much useful out of it... I imagine I'm missing more than I'm catching but this really helps. Cheers!
I've been using twitter to keep track of everything I do. For those moments when somebody asks, "Drew what have you been doing?" Last week I made a dedicated commitment to keep it going, after a few starts and sputters. It's at http://twitter.com/collegewebguy
Seth, you the man! Thanks for organizing this and double thanks for including me!
Thanks for putting this together. I joined the conversation late, but if you are still adding people my twitter account is http://twitter.com/ganyardp
Everyone has been added. Thanks!
Seth - If you don't mind, please add http://twitter.com/andrewcareaga. Don't think I was s member of the Ning site when you started this. (For the record, I'm an interloper -- not a real web designer. But they haven't kicked me out of uwebd yet.) Thanks.
Hi Seth...I would love to join your twitter group on crowd status. I work at Northern Arizona University in, ahhh...obviously AZ. Would love to connect about your social media work. lisa
Hi Seth....Lisa again...and of course you probably need my twitter account! :)http://twitter.com/LisaNAU
Hi, if you're still adding people, my account is: http://twitter.com/jbrower514
Please add me to the group too. http://twitter.com/nancypricer
Thanks for doing this!
Hi Seth,
Just read over your post. Was unaware of crowdstatus until I read it. I'd love to be a part of the higher ed crowd! My focus is in eMarketing for contract training and continuing education for community colleges. @bradkleinman.
Thanks!
-Brad
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