Twits and Tweets

Well, I think I'm starting to grasp twitter. Many of the links and info seem to be focused on Twitter for Business. I'm more interested in Twitter for education. I think there's some interest in using twitter for our conferences. I'm brainstorming ways to use Twitter to help me teach my core content area to residents. Maybe use if for discussions before the lectures. Send out trivia questions to "get the juices flowing". Survey questions during lectures. Hmmm...so many vague ideas, so little time.

My FB page is mostly personal (and rarely used since I'm a paranoid introvert). I think I'm going to try to keep my twitter account (@drjelson, by the way) a little more work focused.

I have a Motorola Droid (yep, geeky - did you know there's are Star Trek tricorder app that measures actual acoustic waves, local electromagnetic waves and solar flares?) and am using Seesmic to follow my twitter on the road. So far, twitter is more of an afterthought since I have so many reminders and notifications for To-dos, calendar appointments, emails, IMs, facebook junk, etc.

Searching has been a little useless, interestingly. I listen to a lot of podcasts since I have the attention span of an emergency physician. I know darn well that all have twitter accounts (they ask me to follow at the end of every podcast). I type in "The Public Speaker" (FYI it's quick and dirty tips on communication) and ... nada. However, going to websites and clicking on the little Twitter badges is slick.

Love or hate microblogging? Don't know yet. Still figuring out what I want to say before I can really figure out how to say it.