Twitter for Librarians
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Carol WalkereLearning Advisor (Learning Technology)http://twitter.com/weedog
JISC RSC Scotland North & East
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Love it?
Hate it?
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Type a message (tweet) into the box above – up to a 140 characters in length. Hit “update” and it will send your tweet to all your followers
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Why are you using it?
What do you want to achieve?
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Finding People
http://search.twitter.com
Look at the followers/following of the people you are following
Directories such as wefollow.com
Twitter can scan your email contacts to find fellow twitterers
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Profile Checklist: AvatarNameWebBio
Do you want to remain anonymous?
Profile Page: http://twitter.com/yourusername
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Profile Page: http://twitter.com/yourusername
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Home Page: http://twitter.com/ (when logged in)
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Tweet Terminology
@user Reply to user
RT ReTweet – resend information to your followers
D or DM Send a direct message to a user – doesn’t appear in your timeline
# Hashtag
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Library Twitterers
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Institutions
Public librariesLibrary associations Services
Individual users
@scotlibraries @intute @libr8
@libram
@birkbecklibrary
@qmulrc
@cgroom1
@ednaplib @philbradley
Twitterers
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Desktop clients
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TweetDeck desktop client: Allows you to create Groups and Filters
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Postdate tweets
Add multipleusers
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Accessible Twitter
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3rd Party Services
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http://twitter.polldaddy.com
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http://twitterfeed.com
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Slide 2Image: 'Marmite' www.flickr.com/photos/14425881@N03/3218881305
Slide 1Twitter Bird Logohttp://wefunction.com/
Slide 3Image: 'Goalpost @ Lowestoft, Suffolk' www.flickr.com/photos/43632116@N00/2086343139
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