Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Twitter on Your Website

You've been using Twitter for some time now, and you've been building your Professional Learning Network (PLN). You understand #hashtags and you've been following some chats and #iste11.

To continue to grow your PLN you can incorporate Twitter into your website with a place for visitors to click and follow you on Twitter. With a few simple steps you can make it very convenient for people to follow you.

We're big fans of Google and use Blogger for our website so we'll use it as our example here. To place a Twitter follow icon on your blog, first, find an icon you like. We use this one:
Now go to your Dashboard -> Design -> Add A Gadget -> Picture -> Browse/Choose Picture -> Add Link -> Save

When you add your link, make sure it goes to your Twitter account, for example: http://twitter.com/TJwolfe_

In case you need a visual example, watch our short tutorial: