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- 1. Library School and It’s not just for Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber…. Nicole Fonsh – LIS 408 – Fall 2010
- 3. All I Ever Needed to Know About Twitter? Creating an Account The ABCs of tweeting Following Hashtag Searching Organization Library Conferences Job Searching
- 4. Creating an Account User Name – Twitter Handle Private vs Public Automatically is public Go to settings to: Profile Picture/Image
- 6. Tweet? 140 characters Like a short blog Mentions Retweets Searches Lists
- 7. 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
- 9. Now that I follow, how do I organize? Make a list Different Twitter Applications TweetDeck, Echofon, TweetMeme, etc.
- 10. 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
- 11. If I can’t travel to ALA… Handle and Hashtags for Conferences
- 12. See who is also attending http://twitter.com/#!/alaannual
- 13. Twitter me to a job Job Announcements - http://twitter.com/#!/alalibraryval/libraryjobs
- 14. What did you just do? Let’s go online…
Editor's Notes
- Who has a Twitter account?How many of you actually use it?If you have one and are not using it, why not?Hopefully- the following will show you how you can use twitter during library school – this presentation will focus mainly on that – there are further tutorials on using twitter as a professional, in your library, etc.
- For those of you who do not have an account - For your user name- you may want to think if you want something regarding your name, or libraries. Depending on purpose of account. Under Settings you can play around with other items like your account, password, mobile notifications, regular notices, profile description, and design which is just picking a theme
- Here is just a quick screen shot of what you have to do when setting up an account- very simple
- Quickly- just a list of ways you can use Twitter in general [point out on the screen shot]Mentions: if someone mentions your handle in a tweetRetweets: to see what people have retweetedSearches: if you save any searchesLists: if you’ve made any lists – to be discussed in a few
- But how do I find them????Just a quick run down of the type of people/places you could follow
- [show where you would type in the search, how you could save the search] [point out that column on left is libraryschool, column on right is librarian] and you can then click on the person to follow[tell story about Jessican_DC’s question and how I was able to help her – also meet her at a conference]mention #hacklibschool - @micahvandegrift
- [go through steps quickly]
- If you want some place to start – [link to one for now, tell people you’ll put on hand out]
- Twitter offers a great way to follow conferences, even if you can’t make it. There are often hashtags for all sorts of conferences – I’ve included the most recent for ALA annual – from the ALA wiki.
- [click on link] it will be updated for 2011 – good way to find more people to follow or if you are going to the conference you can see who else is there, etc
- Great way to see job postings – and another great list to follow. You can use the list to find library specific job posters
- [Go to Twitter and type in #libraryschool #librarian – show what comes up and how you also get people results to the right] – userinstruction pw: library2010Try some of the listsTake questions