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Twitter and the Library Eric Schnell Associate Professor Emerging Technologies and Services Specialist The Ohio State University http://pro.osu.edu/profiles/schnell.9
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Twitter and the Library
Eric Schnell Associate Professor Emerging Technologies and Services Specialist The Ohio State University http://pro.osu.edu/profiles/schnell.9
What is Twitter?
http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=757146
Who uses Twitter?
May 2009 Unique Monthly visitors = 18.2 million (up from 1.2 unique visitors in May 2008)
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nielsen_pr_090619.pdf
It’s Conversation
It’s Professional Networking
It’s a Social Medium AND a Resource
It’s a Conference Backchannel
It’s Breaking News
It’s from Government
It’s Searchable
It’s Shareable
It’s Syndicatable
It’s Syndicatable II
It’s Instant Updates
It’s Marketing
Libraries can:announce programs or other special events
Libraries can:feed onto a Web site
Libraries can:send updates to followers’ phones
Libraries on Twitter
Libraries on Twitter
Libraries on Twitter
Libraries on Twitter
We’re Live
