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Twitter Presentation at the JISC RSC Scotland Web 2.0 Forum for Librarians
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Carol WalkereLearning Advisor (Learning Technology)http://twitter.com/weedog
JISC RSC Scotland North & East
Love it?
Hate it?
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
Why are you using it?
What do you want to achieve?
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
Profile Checklist: AvatarNameWebBio
Do you want to remain anonymous?
Profile Page: http://twitter.com/yourusername
Profile Page: http://twitter.com/yourusername
Home Page: http://twitter.com/ (when logged in)
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
Library Twitterers
Institutions
Public librariesLibrary associations Services
Individual users
@scotlibraries @intute @libr8
@libram
@birkbecklibrary
@qmulrc
@cgroom1
@ednaplib @philbradley
Twitterers
Desktop clients
TweetDeck desktop client: Allows you to create Groups and Filters
Postdate tweets
Add multipleusers
1
2
Accessible Twitter
3rd Party Services
http://twitter.polldaddy.com
http://twitterfeed.com
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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