18/01/2011

Expand Your Social Networking Skills Using Twitter

Twitter is one of the leading social networking sites on the Web with nearly 190 million users worldwide. It enables its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers. There is great demand for courses that show users in a step-by-step manner how to use these online social networking applications. The online training course provider ALISON.com is responding to this demand for high-quality training courses by releasing an instructional course on Twitter. This free online course is ideal for learners who want to learn how to set up a Twitter account and use the features of Twitter for social networking and microblogging. In the course the learner is shown how to:

• Creating accounts
• Creating a profile
• How to tweet
• How to follow
• Timelines
• Retweeting
• Hashtags
• Conferences

The course is free, self-paced and contains an assessment that enables the learner to purchase a Certificate of Completion on completing the course in full.  

To access the free ALISON Twitter course click on the following link

http://alison.com/courses/Twitter-Social-Networking

For further information, please contact:

Mike Feerick

Ireland: +353-91-680-103
UK: +44-207-990-8508
USA: +1-202-403-3223

ABOUT ALISON

ALISON provides FREE online interactive multimedia courses with certification. Over 500,000 people, young and old, have studied with ALISON worldwide since its launch in 2007.

ALISON offers over 200 FREE courses covering a wide range of subjects, the most popular being basic IT Skills Training and English Language. Other certified learning subjects on ALISON includes: Health and Safety, Psychometrics, Financial and Health Literacy, Business and Information Technology Skills, Psychology, Economics, Government Policy, General Science, Mathematics, Law, Outdoor Education, Visual Communication and Design.

Many ALISON learners study individually, but over 300,000 study as part of groups managed by trainers/tutors in schools, colleges, and within a variety of workplaces and community groups.

The mission of ALISON is to enable, anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for free via interactive multimedia on any subject online.

ALISON is a privately owned social enterprise based in Galway, Ireland and is promoted with the help of 3,000 volunteers worldwide.