Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Thing 23

Thing 23

Huzzah! I have reached the end and ahead of schedule.

I am glad that I have made the effort to complete all the things, though it has been far more time-consuming than I ever imagined and I know that I have barely scratched the surface with many of the applications I've been introduced to. I know that I would have to engage more with Twitter and LinkedIn to get the full benefit of them, but I really can't see what use to put them too. I know with the latter it is mainly a case of needing a critical mass of people I know to use it, but I have other, more useful, ways of contacting them.

  • The form in Google Docs is really useful and I had only been on the receiving end of them before.
  • We seem to be getting a lot of hits on our facebook page, so I need to have a real think about how to make it better and work out how to add gadgets to it (I notice other Libraries have boxes for Copac and WorldCat searches on their Facebook pages - how does one do that?)
  • Ideally, I would probably connect my Google Reader page through to iGoogle if they were set up for feeds I want in perpetuity, rather than just for 23 Things. I'd also want fewer gadgets - less clutter if I were using iGoogle every day. At the same time, I'd want to centre my web focus in one place, so I guess it would be a case of working out what I would actually use - something you can't know until you try. I worry with linking all the applications about privacy though, knowing that Googlemail reads what you write and targets the sidebar advertising in relation to it. One could end up putting pretty much all one's life out into the public domain without realising that way.
  • I guess that means that realising how easy it can be to add gadgets to connect pages together has been the most useful lesson and the one I wish to investigate more in the workplace.
Thank you to the organisers of 23 Things for giving us this opportunity to explore with direction through the mass of web 2.0 technologies. But can anyone tell me how to use Twitter for the Library, PLEASE?

Monday, 15 March 2010

Thing 16

Thing 16

I am not sure that I shall be a Twitter convert, but I suspect there is something about it that I am just not getting yet. I suspect I need to search it more for general subjects I am interested in and follow people who write about them to really understand how it works and what it is for.

I was pleased that someone I was following tweeted a link to an interesting article about the future of Libraries, given the current publishing model so that I could retweet it as something I actually wanted to share with other Librarians, rather than just to tick the box (though I originally knew it was there from her Facebook status!). I have also replied to a couple of tweets because I actually wanted to comment on them.

I can't quite imagine how I'd use Twitter for work, despite being asked about it in a job interview once. Again, this is probably part of the bit I have insufficient experience of to get. So far the best thing is the random quotations from Googlebooks!

Friday, 12 March 2010

Thing 15

Thing 15

Just reading through the Twitter terms of service makes me feel uncomfortable. So, they can reuse anything you write, but if anything bad happens because of what you write, that's your fault. I have heard of "crawling", but what, pray, is "scraping"?!

So, I have added a Bio, tweeted my sister and am following her, a Cambridge Librarian who was on my MA course with me (found via
http://wefollow.com/twitter/librarian), another Oxford College Librarian (found via http://tweepml.org/100-British-Librarians-on-Twitter/) , Nuffield College Library, the Bodleian, Google Books and Stephen Fry. I replied to someone's tweet and posted my own about 23 Things. I have also added a photo to my profile. Where to next?

I am generally not too happy about Twitter...