Category: twitter

2 resources for higher ed tweeters and their schools

Via Karine Joly‘s enewsletter, I learned about a project to list all the higher ed tweeters and college/university Twitter accounts. It’s called higheredtweeters.com and is the project of Marie Howell, who works at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

There’s another resource for anyone interested in higher ed Twitter usage: the @higheredu Twitter account put together by DIOSA Communications (Heather Mansfield).

If your university has a Twitter account, be sure to get on both of these lists. But if you’re a higher ed tweep whose school doesn’t have a Twitter account, then sign up for Marie’s new site.

Take this survey about Twitter usage (even if you don’t know what Twitter is)

Andy Shaindlin of Alumni Futures is starting his new year with some research on how colleges and universities use Twitter, and he’s looking for our help. So, please take a few minutes to complete Andy’s short, anonymous survey about Twitter. It really doesn’t take much time at all.

“Even if you don’t know what Twitter is – or you do know what it is, but you do not use it – I’d appreciate your participation (awareness is one of the things we’re trying to measure),” Andy writes. To that, I’d add: Even if you think Twitter is a complete waste of time, your insight will be valuable.

The survey closes at 5 p.m. PST next Tuesday, Jan. 13, so don’t dawdle. He plans to incorporate the survey results “into a brief upcoming white paper about possible uses of Twitter in higher education advancement.”