I have been thinking long and hard about the best and most effective way to integrate Twitter into my ;)
next HR Technology Class. In the last three class sessions, I have variously discussed Twitter, demonstrated Twitter, and even had an HR expert panel web conference that was organized completely on Twitter.
Yet, I still feel like many students are slow to embrace Twitter and to leverage the vast pool of resources and contacts that can be found there. I am such a huge proponent of the potential of Twitter for networking, for research, and for connecting to some of the best HR practitioners that I feel the need to 'force' students into the Twitterverse.
So in the spirit of the old-timer professor that props up sales for the ancient textbook he wrote years back by making it a 'required' reading, I am going to make Twitter a 'required' aspect of my next class.
In addition to crafting an assignment or two involving making connections with HR experts on Twitter, I am going to enact a new policy.
I am going to instruct the students if they need to contact me, that they have to send me a DM (direct message) on Twitter. That way I ensure two things, one, that they have actually created an account on Twitter, and two, they have figured out the basics of using the service (at least enough to send me a DM).
So, from this day forward students, if you need to contact me, do what plenty of HR experts, consultants, bloggers, and friends have already done, send me a DM.
Steve on Twitter - SteveBoese