Whats Happening? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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What is Twitter? ' ! Social Network launched in 2006 by a San Francisco start up called Obvious (The NY Times Company, 2011). Now has 175 million users worldwide (Twitter, 2011). ! Microblogging – “A broadcast media in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size” (Wikipedia, 2011). ! Marketing Tool – newspapers/stations, magazines, businesses of all kinds, celebrities, politicians, charitable/not for profit organizations, schools, churches, artists, television shows, and many more…

The Basics

First Things First: Start Following ! Groups I Follow: Library of Congress, National Book Foundation, Library Journal, The Believer Magazine, MoMA, The Whitney, The Nelson-Atkins, The Kemper, Change.org, Dr. Gary Null, ACLU, The Onion, The Huffington Post, The NY Times, Salon.com, ! Used the Friend Finding Feature via my gmail account and immediately found over ten friends ! Use Twitter and Get Info Without Tweeting – Just Be a Follower!

Gladys Baya’s Tweetwheel “Gladys Baya’s Tweetwheel shows which of her followers are connected to one another, posted at: http://gladysbaya.edublogs.org/2008/05/19/my-tweetwheel- or-why-social-networking-matters/” (Stevens, 2008).

Anatomy of a Tweet ! 140 Character Limit ! “Connected to each Tweet is a rich details pane that provides additional information, deeper context and embedded media. You can tell your story within your Tweet, or you can think of a Tweet as the headline, and use the details pane to tell the rest with photos, videos and other media content” (Twitter, 2011). ! Updates in Real Time ! 95 Million Tweets Daily (Twitter, 2011)

Tweet Your Status! Tell everyone you know “What’s Happening?” “I love my cat!!!” “Partyin’ with the girls… Come join us!” “Vegetarian Stir Fry… Be jealous!” “Mini books for sale!”

Tweet From Anywhere! From Home… … Or From a Cell Phone!

Twitter Gets the Word Out ! National and International Disasters ! Overseas Disputes ! Political News ! Entertainment ! Business Promotions

Twitter for Librarians ! If Tweeting is so great for businesses and organizations, why not for libraries? ! Many Uses: Alert Patrons to New Programs, New Materials, and Requested Materials, Have Q&A Sessions, Get Info on Conferences and New Technologies, Stay in Touch With Other Libraries and Colleagues Around the World (College@Home, 2008) ! A Few Participating Libraries: Library of Congress, NY Public Library, ALA Library, KC Public Library, British Library, and many more

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