Twitter chat assignment
For the Twitter Chat assignment, your group will be responsible for organizing a chat for one week this semester. The questions will be created by the group revolving around the topic of discussion for that week in class. You will be responsible for scheduling a time in which you can participate and get others to participate as well. (I recommend starting no later than 9pm) The chat will use #srusmchat, so individuals can participate/follow your chat.
Signing Up for a Week
I will be posting a thread to the discussion board for sign-ups on XX/XX/XXXX at XX:XX. It will be a first come, first serve basis for signing up for weeks. One of your group members will go onto the discussion thread, write your group number & week you want to organize, and submit it before XX/XX/XXXX at XX:XX.
Topic Weeks
Guidelines
Promotion
As a group, you will be responsible for promoting your chat throughout the week to build awareness and invite participants to join. This can be done through Twitter or other social media platforms, as well as other offline/digital outlets.
Twitter Chat Structure
Participation
This is based on quantity and quality of participants. I will be looking at how engaged you are throughout the chat, as well as the quality of your tweets and if they relate to the subject. To take this to the next level and provide a more valuable experience, I encourage you to network with alumni or outside business professionals, and ask them to join the chat. It is easy to ask friends to join and encourage you to bring them into the conversation to educate others, but try to strive to bring in someone who is considered an expert in the topic area.
Twitter Profile
For your profile, you should have:
Grading
Signing Up for a Week
I will be posting a thread to the discussion board for sign-ups on XX/XX/XXXX at XX:XX. It will be a first come, first serve basis for signing up for weeks. One of your group members will go onto the discussion thread, write your group number & week you want to organize, and submit it before XX/XX/XXXX at XX:XX.
Topic Weeks
- Week 5: Social Networks
- Week 6: Identity & Reputation
- Week 7: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, & Microblogging
- Week 10: Sharing
- Week 11: Mobile
- Week 12: SEO
- Week 14: B2B & Nonprofits
- Week 15: Metrics & ROI or Semester-in-Review
Guidelines
- 1 hour long
- 4-6 Questions (related to that week’s topic)
- Date/time of your chat
- 3-4 sentence paragraph describing what your chat will discuss (this will be due to me via email the week prior to your chat - I will post this to the course blog for you to share/promote your chat)
Promotion
As a group, you will be responsible for promoting your chat throughout the week to build awareness and invite participants to join. This can be done through Twitter or other social media platforms, as well as other offline/digital outlets.
Twitter Chat Structure
- Begin with opening welcome statement with title of chat
- Formatting of question tweet
Q1: What is the question? #srusmchat
A1: This is my answer #srusmchat - Ending the chat
- With 5 minutes left, ask for closing remarks
- End chat with a closing statement thanking everyone for participating
Participation
This is based on quantity and quality of participants. I will be looking at how engaged you are throughout the chat, as well as the quality of your tweets and if they relate to the subject. To take this to the next level and provide a more valuable experience, I encourage you to network with alumni or outside business professionals, and ask them to join the chat. It is easy to ask friends to join and encourage you to bring them into the conversation to educate others, but try to strive to bring in someone who is considered an expert in the topic area.
Twitter Profile
For your profile, you should have:
- Professional/appropriate photo
- Bio (professional and can have a blend of personal to give it character)
- URL (consider your LinkedIn account, about.me, or personal blog/website)
Grading
- Quality/thought/originality of the questions
- Did the questions make sense for the particular week?
- Did the questions flow and drive the conversation?
- Did you demonstrate knowledge of the topic? - Participation from group members, classmates, & outsiders/professionals
- See Participation section above - Preparation
- Did you promote your chat effectively?
- Was your chat organized and moderated effectively? - Completed Twitter profiles