{"id":1235,"date":"2009-09-02T19:43:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T19:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/twitter-research-post-1-of\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:32","slug":"twitter-research-post-1-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/twitter-research-post-1-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Research: Post 1 of ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an early adopter of Twitter, I was also early to depart &#8230; as least as a frequent user. While I check in a few times a week to lurk within my &#8220;hidden network&#8221; (more on that in future posts), I now only make the occasional tweet &#8230; usually when I am out and about at some event of interest (to me). However, I have always had the itch to look into Twitter, specifically the nature of the communication within a sub-network, such as the loosely joined cluster of folks interested in edtech matters. I now have the opportunity this semester in a Qualitative Research course to do just that. Therefore, I will be dusting off my trusty blog to post my reflections on the process here &#8230; largely due to a journaling requirement in the course, but also to openly (not a requirement) share the research processes I will be undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>To kick off the course, we received a great refresher from our ODU librarian, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.odu.edu.proxy.lib.odu.edu\/resources\/libdata\/rqs.phtml?core=1&amp;subject_id=23\">Nancy Schafer<\/a>, during class last night. How cool is that that she has a meebo chat embedded on her personal page? Even though I am very familiar with the wonderful online library features at ODU, I did learn a couple of tricks. Of particular interest was Nancy&#8217;s use of Google Scholar. It may have been there for some time, but I now see that Google Scholar is featured on our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.odu.edu.proxy.lib.odu.edu\/\">library home page<\/a>. While I regularly incorporate a Google Scholar search in my personal bag-o-tricks, I had always considered Google Scholar to be more underground than academically mainstream. However, with the ability to download to citation software and to link directly to holdings in a chosen library within <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_preferences?hl=en\">Google Scholar preferences<\/a>, I wonder if the competition to licensed databases will result in pushback from same. As we see all the time (for example, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=08\/09\/27\/2113248\">Zotero encroaching on Thomson Reuter&#8217;s Endnote turf<\/a>), the established guys rarely leave the new guys to run wild in their established (and lucrative) higher education territories.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=874afddd-888d-8d47-bda3-27e32815657a\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an early adopter of Twitter, I was also early to depart &#8230; as least as a frequent user. While I check in a few times a week to lurk within my &#8220;hidden network&#8221; (more on that in future posts), I now only make the occasional tweet &#8230; usually when I am out and about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,308,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-eci-890","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}