Presented at LAI A&SL Annual Seminar, 1st March 2013

1. what we talk about when we talk on twitter
#irelibchat
michelle dalton
university of limerick
@mishdalton
#asl2013

2. so…
twitter?

6. 140 characters
(or 128 with
#irelibchat!)

7. tweet
follow
RT
#tag

9. not a lake
“the temporal nature
of twitter is best characterised
by fleeting permanence”
(Thomson, 2012)

10. a stream

11. a conversation…

12. …not a broadcast mechanism

13. what is
#irelibchat
all about?

14. the idea

15. conversation

16. sharing

17. connecting

18. discovery

19. filtering

20. reflecting

21. creating

22. community

23. participation

24. #irelibchat:
the story so far

25. June 2012…
CPD
Performance Measurement
Information Literacy
Career Development
Marketing & Promotion
Publishing & Presenting Research
...today

26. “I love the way this “The last #irelibchat was a
#irelibchat has brainstormed brilliant example of what
so many ideas in such a short happens when people chat &
amount of time!” get involved”

27. getting
involved

28. Tweet!
Join in the next #irelibchat:
Publishing & Presenting Research:
March 12th 8pm
Follow @libfocus Librarians in Ireland list
See who other librarians are following &
develop your network

29. thank you
follow me:
@mishdalton & @libfocus