Speak For Yourself courses use a platform that introduces participants to the stripped-down, purely social platform that is twitter, addressing issues that new users tend to find confusing.
Speak For Yourself courses are:
- Safe - We create a separate area for every tutor group of about 20 people, so that every participant feels safe in trying things out. All participants follow each other and give feedback to each other.
- Establishing a new (good) habit - The only work we expect you to do is to update your status at least three times a day. You can update more but three is the minimum.
- Low-intensity - A course lasts several weeks, usually 6 to 12. Every tutor group meets - usually on-line - at regular intervals for a short lesson. Usually lessons are made up for 3 segments: a quick history lesson, this week's task, and q&a and feedback session.
- Helping you understand the important elements of social media - Nobody can tell anyone how to tweet. There are good practices, like completing a bio and being nice - but we all make it what it is.
- Helping you understand that social media is not about technology.
- introducing you to products and platforms that help you enrich social media stream





