10 Twitter Mistakes You Should Avoid reviews the most common mistakes that educators make when trying to harness Twitter as an educational tool. The most valuable one, to me, is the first rule: Over-Tweeting. I'm sure that once a certain level of comfort is attained it becomes easy to tweet every thought that may or may not be related to education. For the purpose of not bombarding any of your followers with irrelevant or "trivial" tweets; it should be a goal to only tweet when it is a good contribution to the community. Seems like just common courtesy, right?
On the other hand, The Teacher's Guide to Twitter emphasizes the importance of not just "consuming" but "creating". It is easy to re-tweet someone else's ideas but as pointed out by the article, a one sided conversation will not last very long. I agree. I think it is important to use Twitter as a sounding board for ideas or questions you may have. It is a resource full of professionals that could only help. Participation will only help create a network for you to draw from. Also, don't forget to share your own resources this will keep the conversation going and also strengthen your network.
You chose two good articles to highlight.
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