Patrick Powers

Twitter today finally announced the arrival of the Tweet Button. The button works pretty much as you would expect. Similar to Facebook’s ‘Like’ button, the Tweet Button allows users to tweet the content of a page. The tweet is pre-populated with a link back to the original piece of content. It’s pretty simple, pretty cool. [...]

Some of the greatest buzz I’ve generated on Twitter have been from live-tweeting events — from annual commencement ceremonies, to our president’s first day on the job, to an on-campus lecture from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The response has been great. Live-tweeting allows communication to flow to and from the event, engages audiences wherever they may [...]

TIME recently released its annual “TIME 100,” a list of 100 names of those who most influence the world around us. The magazine lumps the list into some obvious categories such as leaders, heroes, artists and thinkers. It also added a new one this year — social networking. It’s this last category that piqued my [...]

Twitter turned four earlier this week and it just wouldn’t be my style to remember to wish Twitter a happy birthday on its actual birthday. So happy birthday, Twitter. Thanks to Andrew Careaga for digging up this gem from March 2007: My personal Twitter timeline: • October 7, 2008: After pitching the idea to my [...]

I’m not a Twitter expert. I’m not an aficionado. And I’m certainly not a guru. Microblogging through Twitter, however, is a part of my job. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a pretty good gig if you can get it — just one of my many reasons highered is the best gig in all the web. I [...]

The use of Twitter in higher education has exploded in the past year as more colleges and universities have come to realize the power and reach of this communications tool. UniversitiesAndColleges.org last fall attempted to quantify Twitter use among higher ed institutions but limited its study to those within the Top 100 of the U.S. [...]

There’s an article in this month’s Vanity Fair focusing on “America’s Tweethearts.” The piece highlights a handful of women who have “tweeted” themselves into celebrity. Each boasts between 33,000 and 1.4 million followers on Twitter and raves about how micro-blogging has skyrocketed her career. But it was the paragraph about travel journalist Stefanie Michaels that [...]

When it comes to conveying the relevance of Twitter, it was never my bosses who needed the hard sell. It’s always been my family and friends. As professional 30-somethings they all asked the same question: Why should I care about something so trivial? There’s been any number of articles written about why Twitter matters, how [...]