Week 3: Microblogging

Microblogging is a unique social method for people to communicate which appeals to our inherently inquistive human nature. According to Educause (2009), microblogging is the practice of posting small pieces of digital content—which could be text, pictures, links, short videos, or other media—on the Internet. Examples of microblogging in the workplace include:

    Announcements
    Notice Boards
    Agendas
    Calendars

In order to to create or post a micro-blog or to gain access to microblogs created by others, accounts must be created by users. These created accounts are usually connected with email accounts, instant messaging social media tools such as windows live messenger, web pages, and mobile phones. Basically, any form of Web 2.0 technology or medium that can be used to update the micro-blog respectively. Upon observing these updates, users can provide feedbacks, likes or follow the posts of others much like we have seen in social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. The posts that gain correspondence from other users can consist of texts, a photo, video, or audio clip that can be shared privately within a group or publicly for other user to view. These ‘posts’ or ‘tweets’ if using Twitter, can also be about any topic and are available to be read by anyone. Users freely reply to tweets, entering the conversation; responses are made, ideas are swapped and suggestions are offered.

Several organizations and institutes have Twitter accounts. An example of how we use Microblogging is with the use of the hash-tag on the Twitter page.The concept exhibits simplicity, openness and flexibility and is used by for different purposes by different users for this very reason.

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Educause