TOP TOOLS
Twitter

Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing. For some friends you might want instant mobile updates—for others, you can just check the web. Invite your friends to Twitter and decide how connected you want you to be.  Twitter members can display a widget showing their twitter feed

Comments from those who selected Twitter as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008

• "t took me awhile to get Twitter, but once I built a network of colleagues, I found Twitter was my first source of breaking news and fresh ideas.  It is amazing what you can learn from 140 characters."  Britt Wattwood
• "A truly wonderful micro blogging tool. Fantastic for brainstorming and rapid sharing of thoughts, ideas, links etc"  Karl Goddard
• "putting aside the bacon sandwich banalities it has proven to be a great connector of like minded colleagues world wide"  Mary Cooch
• "to paraphrase Bill Thompson - like working in a cafe and being able to hear about what your peers, colleagues and those you respect are working on - and join in where appropriate - www.twitter.com/usher" Ian Usher
• "La revelación de 2007. Una tontería sin la que me habría perdido un montón de cosas. Tan útil como adictiva. Con todo, no creo que a Twitter le quede mucho recorrido, ya que hay proyectos en marcha -desde Google o no- que le pueden dar el golpe de gracia en cualquier momento. [The revelation of 2007. A triviality without which there would be lost a pile to me of things. As useful as addictive. Yet, I do not believe that to Twitter it has left much route, since there are projects in march - from Google or No that can give the grace blow at any time him]"   Emilio Quintana
• "I've called this IM on speed. I didn't get it at first (who cares if you're eating breakfast and then brushing your teeth), but I've found it a great way to stay in touch with my network and get answers to questions on the fly. Talk about just-in-time learning."  Heather Ross
• "While I have a love / hate relationship with Twitter, it has become an important means of staying current with the latest news and resources in education and technology. I now follow Twitter closer than blogs."  Jennifer Maddrell
• "for microblogging and keeping in touch with my community"  Derek Wenmoth
• "Good for instant connection and sharing. Prefer to get announcements, opinions or interesting links, rather than the answer to what are you doing that is requested."  Anne Paterson
• "I can know what others are doing now"  Jose Carlos del Arco
• "is microblogging and I love the brevity, immediacy, and the way I can organize it for my interests and collect interesting URLs through it. You can follow me at twitter.com/JoanVinallCox"  Joan Vinall-Cox
• "a productivity tool emerging as possibly the handiest there is. Twitter - or at least tweets (the users) - have saved me much inconvenience" Nick Hood
• "Super way to share information back and forth"   Phil Bradley
• "because it's the best way to be informed and share/get thoughts and ideas in 140 characters!"  Gabriela Grosseck
• "I have picked up so much from Twitter since it "invaded" my life. Although it can be very distracting. Twitpic is a great way of sharing pictures via twitter"  Adam Sutcliffe
• "I have been learning a lot from all those micro messages I have been receiving from my twitter community." Cristina Mendes Da Costa
• "I've learnt a lot in this service!" Alexandre Bobeda
• "great networking tool. Sometimes mundane and inane comments, but gems appear with great links that take you somewhere new."  Jenny Luca
• "has become my fastest and most essential micro-blogging communication tool."  Judy O'Connell

Comments from those who selected Twitter as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

• "its use is not trivial. central to organizational communication and keeping my closest work group informed and on the same page"  Kevin Gamble
• "Microblogging makes you think about what you are doing and keeps you in touch with people you like from all over the world."  Jose Luis Cabello
• "Twitterific – Twitter on the side; allows me to keep up with my Tweets without checking the website"  Cheri Toledo
• "My new favorite thing.  Quick, ubiquitous, and networked."  Patrick Higgins

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