After a busy week with a full governor's meeting as a parent-governor at my son's school last night and helping out at Sight Village in Birmingham on the RNIB National Library Services stand today, I've finally managed to sit down at 9.30 tonight to have another look at twitter. I went through some of the recommended twitter accounts and decided to have a maximum of 5 to follow.
Publiclibnews and UKpling
I thought it would be useful to keep abreast on what's happening to UK public libraries and the opposition to library cuts.
infolitgroup
I've always had an interest in information literacy stemmed from my work in college libraries.
CILIPinfo
For obvious reasons!
Philbradley
My enthusiasm for Web 2.0 has grown since this course, after being indifferent before. Who else would be a better person to follow!
I also posted another tweet myself and had a look at libchat. I'll like to have a go and join in to see how this works. I can also see the benefits of tweeting at something like a Conference as I've just found out that Kent Libraries has won the Libraries change lives award through twitter.
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Monday, 11 July 2011
Thing 4 - Twitter
I've finally managed to start looking at Thing 4 and set myself up a Twitter Account, only to discover that I already had one which I must have set up on the Web 2.0 course back in 2009! I actually had gained 4 followers who didn't have much to do following me the last 2 years.
I think the problem with the web 2.0 course back in 2009 was the lack of relevance to me at that time as we weren't allowed to use things like twitter etc at work, web 2.0 technology isn't very accessible for visually impaired people (our customers) and I didn't have a computer at home.
I updated my profile and managed to link my blog to my twitter account with few problems. I've sent a couple of tweets so far, seems pretty straight forward though quite a challenge to stick to the character limit. Also tried to see if I could easily add my tweet button to my blog but need to find a bit more help on how to do this.
My next step is to get in the habit of sending tweets on a regular basis and try and get some followers! The cyber world can be quite a lonely place. I'm also going to look at some of the recommended tweeters and pick a few to follow.
On reflecting on the 23 steps so far, I certainly would keep the blog going and would try and put something on most days. I would also perhaps have a go at some none library blogs. I also want to design my blog more - add a few images and gadgets such as the tweet button.
With regards to Twitter, I think I need to give it a few weeks before I decide on its usefulness for me.
I think the problem with the web 2.0 course back in 2009 was the lack of relevance to me at that time as we weren't allowed to use things like twitter etc at work, web 2.0 technology isn't very accessible for visually impaired people (our customers) and I didn't have a computer at home.
I updated my profile and managed to link my blog to my twitter account with few problems. I've sent a couple of tweets so far, seems pretty straight forward though quite a challenge to stick to the character limit. Also tried to see if I could easily add my tweet button to my blog but need to find a bit more help on how to do this.
My next step is to get in the habit of sending tweets on a regular basis and try and get some followers! The cyber world can be quite a lonely place. I'm also going to look at some of the recommended tweeters and pick a few to follow.
On reflecting on the 23 steps so far, I certainly would keep the blog going and would try and put something on most days. I would also perhaps have a go at some none library blogs. I also want to design my blog more - add a few images and gadgets such as the tweet button.
With regards to Twitter, I think I need to give it a few weeks before I decide on its usefulness for me.
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