Friday, March 13, 2009

Thing 27 - Twitter



After finishing all the 'To Do' projects I had a 'Twitter' account with great sites to follow. Everything from knitting, decorating, books, libraries and friends. I'm not sure it's something I'd use a lot but it does have interesting possibilities.

I was impressed with alltop.com mentioned in the video 'How to View Twitter and Use It Effectively'.

I'm not sure I'd use it for the library but I'm following the Hibbing library site and Casa Grande, AZ library site to find out what uses they come up with. I agree with the article 'Twtter Explained for Lirarians and 10 Ways to Us Twitter'; It's important to keep up-to-date with emerging tools - flickr started out as a silly web photography game, not the amazing social tool it's turned into.

That said I can see it being used for web conferencing, brainstorming with colleagues and sending messages to library patrons on 'Twitter'.

1 comment:

MaryK said...

Mick, I am "following" your twitter. (Trying not to make obvious puns).