twitter for librarians

Carol WalkereLearning Advisor (Learning Technology)http://twitter.com/weedog

JISC RSC Scotland North & East

Twitter

Love it?

Hate it?

Type a message (tweet) into the box above – up to a 140 characters in length. Hit “update” and it will send your tweet to all your followers

Why are you using it?

What do you want to achieve?

Finding People

http://search.twitter.com

Look at the followers/following of the people you are following

Directories such as wefollow.com

Twitter can scan your email contacts to find fellow twitterers

Profile Checklist: AvatarNameWebBio

Do you want to remain anonymous?

Profile Page: http://twitter.com/yourusername

Profile Page: http://twitter.com/yourusername

Home Page: http://twitter.com/ (when logged in)

Tweet Terminology

@user Reply to user

RT ReTweet – resend information to your followers

D or DM Send a direct message to a user – doesn’t appear in your timeline

# Hashtag

Library Twitterers

Institutions

Public librariesLibrary associations Services

Individual users

@scotlibraries @intute @libr8

@libram

@birkbecklibrary

@qmulrc

@cgroom1

@ednaplib @philbradley

Twitterers

Desktop clients

TweetDeck desktop client: Allows you to create Groups and Filters

Postdate tweets

Add multipleusers

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Accessible Twitter

3rd Party Services

http://twitter.polldaddy.com

http://twitterfeed.com

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