Six Reasons I’M Glad I Caved In and started using Twitter
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Six Reasons I’m Glad I Caved Inand started using Twitter
Ned Potter | www.thewikiman.org
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Networking
Not just the traditional online social networking kind, either. If you’ve chatted with someone on Twitter, your relationship gets a head-start when you meet face-to-face.
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Links, links, links
I get countless links about stuff I’m interested in, from people who know a lot more than I do…
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Asking questions
Sometimes Google isn’t enough. I can ask a question and get an informed response more-or-less instantly, from people I trust.
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Promotion
I can promote LIS-related events directly to people who might actually want to go to them, and a significant amount of traffic to my blog is generated via Twitter links.
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Gauging consensus
Twitter is a great tool for getting a sense of how people are feeling about emerging trends, new technologies etc.
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Listening in
When two (or more) people you follow are conversing on Twitter you are shown their tweets – this leads to all sorts of serendipitous discovery of information and ideas!
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The copyright bit: Images were either Flickr creative commons (Networking - GustavoG...; Links - Ravages; Asking questions - Oberazzi; Consensus gauging - Redgum; and Listening in – abrinsky ) or Photfunia creations of my own (this one, and Promotion).
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