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Nicole Fonsh – LIS 408 – Fall 2010

All I Ever Needed to Know About Twitter?

Creating an Account

The ABCs of tweeting

Following

Hashtag Searching

Organization

Library Conferences

Job Searching

Creating an Account User Name – Twitter Handle

Private vs Public Automatically is public

Go to settings to:

Profile

Picture/Image

Tweet? 140 characters

Like a short blog

Mentions

Retweets

Searches

Lists

Now what? Follow Who? Follow What?

Find people/groups/places to follow

Librarians - @MerryLibrarian1, @librarianchat, @jessamyn, @LibrarianRy, @libraryfuture, @Nancy_Pearl

Libraries - @brklib, @BPLBoston, @nypl

Library Schools - @simmonsgslis, @GSLIScast, @SimmonsALASC, @SLASimmons

Library School Students - #libraryschool

BUT HOW DO I FIND ALL OF THEM?? The amazing world of hashtags

Now that I follow, how do I organize?

Make a list

Different Twitter Applications TweetDeck, Echofon, TweetMeme, etc.

Pre-Made Lists

http://twitter.com/DUKEpress/librarians

http://twitter.com/vonburkhardt/librarians

http://twitter.com/hbraum/libraries-librarians

http://twitter.com/#!/BookishJulia/lis-folk

http://twitter.com/laurendodd/libraryland

If I can’t travel to ALA… Handle and Hashtags for Conferences

See who is also attending

http://twitter.com/#!/alaannual

Twitter me to a job Job Announcements -

http://twitter.com/#!/alalibraryval/libraryjobs

What did you just do?

Let’s go online…