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July 25, 2007
Combine Twitter & Flickr
Twitku is a tool to send and receive posts to and from both Twitter and Jaiku. Twitku now shows a thumbnail of an image when you include the link from Flickr in the tweat/jaik.
So let's say you combine the two types of functionality for marketing. Create an account in Twitter for the library. Create a matching account in Jaiku. Have a Flickr account. Then create a Twitter / Jaiku stream to promote new books or items from special collections or such. For example, you could say everyday at 10am there will be a tweat/jaik about some cool thing on the New Books shelf. Have a picture of the cover image or title page or something visually interesting. Put the pic in Flickr, and include a tinyurl link to the Flickr pic in a tweat about the book, with a quote, title or link to the record (PURL) in Mirlyn or LibraryThing. Then do the same sort of thing at 2pm highlighting things from our special collections.
Bet any booklovers would subscribe to the feed? I sure would!
There are other neat things going on with Twitter for libraries. TwitterProse highlights a book a day, with brief quote. So does TwitterLit. BookTwo is "reading" James Joyce to the twittersphere. Maybe there are other mashups that would combine the Twitter functionality with some other source of information to create interesting ways to project information soundbites. Here is a list of Twitter mashups. Any other ideas?
Frantic Industries: All Twitter tools and mashups in one place: http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/04/04/all-twitter-tools-and-mashups-in-one-place/
Posted by pfa at July 25, 2007 12:41 PM
Comments
Ooh, I like this idea. Thanks, Patricia.
Posted by: swortman at August 10, 2007 07:49 AM
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