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June 10, 2008
Twitter, anyone?
Found a link from the Chronicle Daily Report to an interesting post called Twitter for Librarians: The Ultimate Guide. I confess, Twittering is something I cannot get into. I'm sure it's like Facebook, you need an active community to make it worthwhile. At any rate this guide put together by Christina Laun at College@Home lists some interesting ideas that may get me to give Twitter another try.
Her suggestions include using Twitter to:
* Keep in touch with librarian friends and colleagues
* Keep up with the latest news by getting Twitter feeds from BBC or CNN
* Get conference information
* Share resources
* Use it for a notepad
* Post library announcements
If Christina doesn't motivate you enough to try Twitter, check out this older post from Des Walsh on Twittering where he talks about guides to Twitter. The concept of Twittering is simple but sometimes it takes reading a guide for people become aware of the whole concept of microblogging.
Want to learn more about Twitter? Come to the ML2SIG brownbag panel discussion on Twittering at Hatcher, room 100, from 12-1. Who knows, it might even be held in Twitter...
[forgot to mention the DATE of the panel discussion - Monday, June 16.]
Posted by swortman at June 10, 2008 08:02 AM