Rise of the twegals

Rise of the twegals
Emily Allbon - Law Librarian @lawbore

Twitter: How? When?
Joined end of 2009
Different way of communicating with students/academic staff
Extra service for Lawbore
Very sporadic random tweeting at first
“Law, Libraries and Life” tagline

Tide changing
Lawyers increased presence over last 6 months. Includes:
Academics/Researchers
Practitioners
Campaigners
Legal press
Law students
Legal commentators
In tandem with blogging, has taken over from old-style law reporting

What do I use it for?

Keeping up to date
Getting quality commentary quickly
Hear about big cases
Great starting point for forming your thoughts

New way of communicating
More likely to engage if you give more of yourself away?
Does professional - private persona need to be split?

Being part of a wider (supportive) community
Widen networks – forging new relationships
Extends to the ‘real world’ e.g. meeting at tweet-ups or events

Widening my knowledge
…and passing on relevant info to academics and students

Promoting what I do
Share examples of your (or your institution’s):
Work
Achievements
Blogposts

Improving involvement at events/conferences
Tweet at conferences to:
Create a useful archive of posts
Engage with others
Keep those who weren’t able to make it in the loop
#BIALL2011
#lawblogs
#Lex2011tweetup

Getting ideas
Perfect for trying out, testing, gathering expertise

Twit-iquette
Do observe the #FF convention
Do credit sources with use of the RT symbol
Don’t use for cynical
self-promotion
Do give a glimpse of yourself too
Do respond to DM’s
Give thanks!
Use a URL shortener

Can be a bit ……surreal…
Knowing people virtually but not personally

Why I love twitter (final thoughts)
Engagement
Exciting
Thrill of tweeting something first
Direct feedback
Community

Thanks for images (CC licence via flickr)
Slide 1 – ‘The elect. Not the elected’ by Steve Punter http://www.flickr.com/photos/spunter/2907555506/
Slide 3 – ‘Crashing wave’ by Clearly Ambiguous http://www.flickr.com/photos/clearlyambiguous/29529587/
Slide 4 – ‘twitterpack’ by carrotcreativehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/carrotcreative/2511539541/ and ‘Why?’ by KayVee.INC http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayveeinc/3095282108/
Slide 5 – ‘...and in last place’ by …Tim http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_norris/2789759648/
Slide 6 – ‘megaphone’ by Robert.Nilssonhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/rnphotos/4689893987/
Slide 7 – ‘Pyramid’ by joninonatanhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/kushana/478963305/
Slide 8 – ‘henry loved eating books’ by jacquelinetinneyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jacquelinetinney/3121619746/

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Rise of the twegals

by Emily Allbon on Jun 24, 2011

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