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Tweet To Me: Twittering Libraries And Librarians In SUNYBill Drew
http://twitter.com/BillDrew4Presentation at http://bit.ly/ktmCq
“In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.”
Steven JohnsonTime, June 15, 2009
TC3 Library - January 3, 2009 http://twitter.com/tc3library
• New Book List - at most once a week• New Databases• Changes in Hours • News from LibraryLand• Events in the Baker Commons• Followers so far: 136
o students, faculty, staffo authors, other libraries, publishers
“Do treat Twitter as a conversation rather than a broadcast medium.”
Sarah Milstein, "Twitter FOR Libraries (and Librarians)." Computers in Libraries,May 2009.
TC3 Library - Publicity http://twitter.com/tc3library
• E-mail to Faculty, Staff.• Will E-mail Students in fall.• FaceBook page and "friends." • On bottom of every library webpage.
TC3 Library - Future Uses http://twitter.com/tc3library
• Two way communication.• Feed in RSS from some good sources.• Feed in RSS from announcements page. • More ReTweets of other TC3 twitter users.• ????
Bill Drew - http://twitter.com/BillDrew4
• Personal Use - someo News - CNN, New York Times, NPR, others.o Interests - social networking, new tehcnologies,
etc. • Professional Use -
o Follow others for professional development.o Feed my blog into it (Using TwitterFeed).o Feed from Library 2.0 Network on Ning.
Follow and Followers
Who I Follow (274) Followers (412)
• Journals (LJ,AL, etc.)• OCLC• LibraryofCongress • InformationKnot • Pundits/Techies (eg.
Cory Doctorow) • Vendors • Personal Friends• Librarians
• Librarians • Personal Friends• Vendors• Journals• ALA & NYLA• Authors• Publishers• ?
“Twitter has thus become a key player in the attention economy, distributing ideas and comments about what people care about and what they have expertise in.”
Tim O'Reilly & Sarah MilsteinThe Twitter Book
Picking Who to Follow
• Content is King!o Posts links to useful resources.o Retweets and original content.o Some personal stuff is good. o Doesn't over tweet. o Don't follow everyone that follows you!!
• Some of My Favoriteso Michael Sauers (msauers)o Ellyssa Kroski (ellyssa)o TweetReport (TweetReport)o David Lankes (rdlankes)o American Libraries (amlibraries)o Colleen Robledo (colleenrobledo)o Tim O'Reilly (timoreilly)
Twitter Tools I Use
• Twitterfeed - http://www.twitterfeed.com• Twitter Grader - http://twitter.grader.com/billdrew4• We Follow - http://wefollow.com/• HootSuite - http://hootsuite.com/dashboard• Mr. Tweet - http://www.mrtweet.net/• Twellow Directory - http://www.twellow.com
/category_users/cat_id/346• Just Tweet It - Librarians-
http://justtweetit.com/education/librarians/• Twhirl - http://www.twhirl.org• Twazzup: http://www.twazzup.com/
Contact me if you have any questions!
Bill Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S.Assistant ProfessorLibrarian, Systems and Tech Services/Electronic Resources/SerialsTompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) LibraryDryden, N.Y. 13053-0139E-mail: [email protected]: 607-844-8222 ext.4406Twitter:BillDrew4Online Identity: http://claimID.com/billdrew http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill_Drew/