Twitter-Thing 5

I have had a really good experience with Twitter but primarily only as a person who likes to watch what other people are posting and not as a person that Tweets themselves. I suffer from a condition where I gain happiness by watching famous and/or infamous people talk about themselves.

But interestingly enough, I had an experience the other day with it that was new for me. I was in a webinar where they said more questions and discussion were taking place on Twitter using a specific hash tag. I thought this was great! I was able to follow the discussion and look hours later at all the Tweets surrounding the webinar.

Ian

Picture Sharing-Thing 4

I am intrigued to see other libraries using photo sharing for their libraries. What interests me most is how these folks get permission to use pictures of the public in the photos as much as they do such as all the students you see in the pics from Alexandrian Public Library. Additionally, you can tell that not everyone is uploading the information as the pictures do not always get labeled in the same manner such as the Old Bridge Public Library where many titles are sometimes capitalized and others not.

RSS Feeds

I have been subscribing to my own set of RSS feeds utilizing Bloglines for many years; I only recently began to understand the value of RSS feeds for a library such as ours since the world of social media came into my own household and onto my phone. For instance, I currently follow our own blog and see items come through on Facebook and the blog.

What I think about in terms of what we can do is pretty standard so far as advertising for materials and programs. But I also hope that any news that we create such as winning awards and giving information for closures and parking issues will soon become the norm for us to push out to followers of our blog. I am excited about the prospect of what we can do for those that follow us!