Twitter and Libraries

I enjoyed having a look around many of the site links in this exercise. Rodney Library used it to notify other twitterers about books of interest, giving a brief comment about the book.Having this linked back to the library catalogue is great for showing others who dont make it into the library very often, just what the new arrivals are, enabling a direct link to request the item.I also liked the use of promoting future events and twitter as a way of advertising past events using a photo board, or bulletin board.

I thought it useful to be able to link through to the twitterer of a particular post, especially if it shared attractive information I could be interested in.It wasnt so much the persoal comments in the tweets I liked, but rather being able to link through to a site I might be interested in.

Word restriction helps keep comments brief.Quite a good idea where the comments are silly. I would prefer a more visual way to display tweets.
The communication style is very casual, informal, rather a chit chat format, some of which is quite entertaining, if you like that sort of thing.

I noticed that New York and Vancouver Library twitters promoted library resources and services. I would have to wonder just how many people are regular followers and whether it is a short lived faze or is it the up and coming fashionable way to communicate.?? I'll have to follow to find out.
Maybe its just another technical format of communicating. Not really something I am into. But if this is the way libraries are going then I suppose I will be growing in that area too.

Launching @ Glenfield Library - our Family Reading Programme, :-) fun for all.Registrations open 1 Dec 2009.Call in & sign up.

Have a look at this link on Twitter for libraries.
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may09/Milstein.shtml

Searching Twitter

I used the Twitter search engine to look up 'library' to keep it work related.
It really surprised me at the massive number of tweets that displayed during the time I was looking. They were just flowing in, so this must be a pretty popular site. Far more popoular than the 3rd party Twitter site of Twoogle. At this point there are 1/4 more realtime results on Twitter than Twoogle. However I did like the split screen on the Twoogle site. It looks like it links back to a google search on the term "library".An extra bit of information could be useful.

Just loved the mashup names the creaters of the different sites have used.
Very clever.

Liked the idea of being able to RSS feed Twitter and Twoogle if I chose.

Twitter an introduction

What an intrusion into my life and of personal space. At this stage Twitter is not for me. I dont really care to know the intricate details of someones day to day living. If I did then I would rather pick up the phone (land or cell) and ring to actually speak to the person, or text them as I usually have my phone on me.
I think there is more to life than being stuck infront of a computer or glued to a piece of technology.
Hey, I'm one who, with great intentions, takes out DVD's to watch and never finds the time to sit still to do this. I hardly ever watch TV.So I am not supposing I would jump at the chance to be addicted to Twitter.
Twitter almost seems like a digital stalker. One that sits in your back pocket and tweets your bum! chum! to find out what you are up to. Who wants that!!?? Not me-I might be misbehaving and have to stop!! Ha Ha. Though it is a great way to share information and get feedback from others it you want this. Each to their own.

I looked at a couple of the twitter links mentioned. JohnKeyspm had website links to various interviews. These were good as they had both the visual and audio way of transferring the message- thats if you are into John Keys PM. (Of which I am NOT)
One of the other links I viewed was the 'grabaseat'. Of which I have personality never used but if I was into traveling around I think this would be a great was to keep up with the advertising and promtion of flight bargins.
Many of the twitter sites shared information, promoted their goods or events and in the polictical sense of John Keys' twitter, promoted himself for public viewing.

#17 Web 2.0 applications

Don't you reckon that real productivity comes from easy collaboration more than any other feature.Web office applications seem to be able to replace the old applications by taking a fresh look at what really matters from a productivity standpoint.
Interesting to note in the listed awards the following;-

• Del.icio.us first in Bookmarking and Social News qualities.
• Wetpaint second in Hosted Wikis
• Google Maps first with Maps
• Zoho second in Organization techniques
• Flickr first with Photos and Digital Images
• YouTube first with Video techniques
• Twitter first with Social Networking Mainstays
• Technorati third for News and Blog Guides
• Rollyo for Searching