Thursday, March 11, 2010

Week Seven: Microblogging

Twitter is very easy to use. I like the intimacy of the site. I like that I can follow writers and institutions that I am interested in, along with people I know. I found it easy to find people to follow- I was getting a little worried that I was choosing to follow too many people… we’ll see.

I chose to follow Timothy McSweeny because I think the publication is clever. I checked the tweets and had a laugh. I am following librarybeat and see that they post many useful links to podcasts and websites. New York Public Library has a great set of tweets; quotes are mixed into their messages adding some substance to checking their posts.

Lawrence Public Library uses Twitter to post about events and library resources. Also, the library encourages feedback for users. Making library resources available to the public in another form seems like an ideal professional use of Twitter.

Here is my very dull page. Maybe I will make it more interesting at some point.

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