Are you on Twitter?

[Carrie @ UMass]

If you use Twitter to share edu/instructional tech info and resources, please share your Twitter ID.

Twitter/carrie_at_umass

[Mary Hricko]

Hi Carrie,

I am an avid twitter user. Find me at MaryHR

[Ken Ronkowitz]

I am a sometimes Twitter user (prefer FriendFeed's less restrictive text box). And I am continually surprised at the amount of "professional" contacts I am making in Facebook - probably more than on LinkedIn - but, I am on all of them!

http://twitter.com/ronkowitz
http://friendfeed.com/paradelle
http://www.facebook.com/ronkowitz

[Ken Ronkowitz]

Do you have professional and personal Twitter (and other sites) accounts? I gave up on that because it was becoming tiresome to check them all, but it would be nice to have space between them.

[Mary Hricko]

Okay, I am not a geek, but I do maintain 39 separate site accounts including work and personal email. Scary, isn't it?

[Carrie @ UMass]

Re Multiple Twitter accounts:

Ken, I use HootSuite to manage three accounts. One account is me: @carrie_at_umass. Another is my department account @MedicineUMMS (I work at a med school). and the other is a training account: @SocialMediaUMMS which I will use for a social media training series starting in Nov.

HootSuite is online - I have all 3 accts set up and I can access them in one place, anywhere, on a PC or Mac. I can track stats, click thru's and schedule tweets. It is fun and interesting to watch the stats, to see what types of links people click on. I can also set up search columns to track specific hashtags or terms. I can build columns to export to other webpages (see www.umassmed.edu/medicine/index.aspx). I tried TweetDeck for a few months, and although I like their slick UI, HootSuite has more functions that are useful for me.

I am also on LinkedIn: look for carrie saarinen or search [e-mail]