Good social networking and Twitter tips from a Columbia J-School professor

If you’re still waffling about whether to use Twitter for personal or professional reasons, check out this post from Sree Sreenivasan, a journalism professor and the dean of student affairs at the Columbia Journalism School.

It includes links to all manner of Twitter introductions, tutorials and other resources. Some of his links can help you find people to follow. Others will help you see how Twitter can be engaging and, most importantly, useful.

There’s also some fun stuff near the end, videos, jokes and such.

And, if you want to get on a social media roll, check out this other post by Sreenivasan, which provides tips and primers for all sorts of social networking sites, from Facebook to LinkedIn.

And hey, one more thing: Take a good look at the blog that he’s put up. Sreenivasan is using a blogging service called Tumblr, which provides users with free blogs that are drop-dead simple to use. If you’re looking to start experimenting with blogs, Tumblr might be a good place to start. WordPress.com and Posterous are also good.

As always, if you have any questions about this stuff, stop by any time.

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