Twitter101 for Librarians

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+ audbod112 3 months ago
thanks Phil. You always provide useful info for librarians and are happy to share...
+ Anaivko 3 months ago
Always happy to see PhillBradley’s new ppt

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Twitter101 for Librarians - Presentation Transcript

Twitter 101:ONLINE 2009
Phil Bradley
http://www.twitter.com/Philbradley
@Philbradley
What is Twitter?
What does it look like?
Page Elements:
Background
‘Dashboard’
Search, lists, trends
How can librarians use Twitter?
Allows you to keep in contact with colleagues, to see what they're doing, what their interests are, read their opinions/thoughts/ideas
Keep informed about developments from publishers; both in terms of what they're publishing, but also events they're running
You can promote what your library service is doing. Attract new users, offer gifts or incentives, increase awareness and have fun!
Provide instant answers and point people in the right direction
Follow links to events, keep briefed on current affairs
Use Twitter as an RSS reader to keep up to date with blog entries
Share photographs quickly and easily, especially if using a smartphone
Ask questions using polls, Re-Tweet for maximum results
Keep involved with conferences even if you can’t attend them with 3rd party sites
Add short (3 minute) audio posts using Audioboo and add in a photograph as well!
Broaden your knowledge of a subject by following the right people/organizations
Ask questions! Answer questions!
Find new people to follow using Twitter search or 3rd party sites like WeFollow
Communicate more effectively
Discuss events as they happen
Send people Direct Messages
Follow authors
Follow dead people
And more...
Networking, both professional, friend to friend
News: new books, closing early, new staff
Marketing tool
Broadcasting content
Updating a website via Twitter
Advantages
Free
Fast
Simple
Effective
Brevity
‘Always on’
Instant information
Disadvantages
Media hype
‘Fail Whale’
Brevity (what can you say in 140 characters?)
Small number of users
Spam
3rd party applications
Viruses
Good practices: profile
Name and avatar
Location, Address, Biography
Tweets
Other (better?) interfaces
TweetDeck
What Twitter is NOT:
A time sink (unless you have time to spare)
Mr S Fry’s private playground
About breakfast/lunch/dinner
Ego boosting twaddle
Twitter Search
Twitter Search
Twitter Search
But wait!
There’s more...