Twitter (again)

[C]

I also belong to another forum on TeacherLibrarianNetwork so this may be a duplicate. I am looking for others using Twitter. I would like to discuss with others how to use this in libraries. (I do sometimes twitter about my other life outside the school-I work by myself in a 900 student library and am dying for some adult discussion.)

[guybrarian]

Thanks for this post Cheryl. I'm beginning to twitter more and more. I would love to find the twitter librarians...so far I have been a bit successful, but would love to find more (especially school librarians). I still think twitter COULD be the worlds biggest time waster; however if you build a strong network of forward thinking educators- there is no end to the stimulation and ed tech-info literacy ideas that could be bounced off of others in real time. I will look for you! pgoerner @ twitter. Happy tweeting!

[Jan McGee]

I would like to learn how you all are using Twitter in your libraries. I joined Twitter over two months ago. No one in my area is using Twitter yet, so I really don't have anyone with whom I can experiment. I feel like too much of a "newbie" in this area to throw myself into the Twitter mainstream. I do love to learn about Web 2.0 and how to integrate it into my high school library program. Please share with me. My Twitter address is [e-mail]

[Jan McGee]

Hi Polly,
Thanks for adding me to your twitter. I don't get online with Twitter a lot--actually haven't had a reason without any twitter friends. Thanks for the suggestion about the writter packs! I'll do that. I didn't know about those at all! This Ning is great!

Jan

[Cindy]

Although I'm not a librarian (I'm a tech coordinator for 9-12), I've started to twitter and would love to hear ideas about its use in a library setting. I joined Twitter with trepidation - WHY would I want to be so informed? Wouldn't it be terribly distracting? And I've found that it could well be distracting, but it is like so many other things in life - a great tool if used well and with moderation. I've gotten tidbits and big ideas from some great thinkers, which have been really useful. (Like who know about TwitterPacks? - Thanks, Polly!!) I'm LangLabCindy on Twitter and look forward to sharing ideas. ~ Cindy

[Michael Dodes]

I twitter too - we are discussing this in NYC as well and have some wonderful people setting up an educational twitter network at http://youthtwitter.com

It's interesting to see what the students are doing with it...it's very exciting! We've been discussing it over http://www.edtechtalk.com and you can see our twitter network over there too - it's piped in via RSS but you can see it & follow it on twitter here - http://twitter.com/edtechtalk/with_friends

[guybrarian]

Yeah, I forgot to mention that we are using a twitter RSS feed on our website to promote magazines. Each week we post a brief teaser of content in a magazine we are cataloging. Try to do 3-6 each week and put it right on our main library page. Not the prettiest thing, but it is current and dynamic. :)

[Buffy Hamilton]

Great idea!!!!! (as usual). :-)

Buffy

[Buffy Hamilton]

Hi!

Sorry to just now respond to this, but we have a Twitter account we use to post updates from our blog: http://twitter.com/unquietlibrary .

Here are some fav links on applications for Twitter and libraries: http://del.icio.us/theunquietlibrary/twitterlibraryapplications .

Last, but not least, here is a blog post I did recently about how Twitter is empowering me!

http://tinyurl.com/6lb33k

I hope this helps! :-)

Buffy Hamilton

[Andi Sibley]

I just joined this group and found this thread. Although it's old I am interested and following the links. I'm an elementary SLMS and in grad school for my MLS. I'm doing a current project on librarians using Ning and Twitter, so I'm following all of you now. Thanks!

[guybrarian]

Welcome Andi! Glad you are following---(do I have your twitter id?) I didn't know this, but Buffy just found School Library Journal on twitter... sljournal

Fun to be connected!

[Andi Sibley]

I am cloudscome on twitter. I found SLJ by following Buffy I think!

[Buffy Hamilton]

Hi Andi! What is your Twitter ID? I am buffyjhamilton on Twitter. Come join the fun! :-)