Today, like a lot of other UK based librarians I participated in the CILIP Council Open Session on the use of Web2.0 via Twitter (tag #cilip2). The live session included presentations from Phil Bradley and Brian Kelly and a Q&A/discussion. It was also live blogged on the Library & Information Update blog. My initial intention had been to just monitor the event just to keep up with what was happening. The experience however drew me in and at one point this morning (before the event started) I was up in the top 10 list of tweeters. If this event does [...]
April, 2009:
Twitter – the next level
Earlier this week my boss started using Twitter. She got herself up and running and then called me in for some help with a few things. Watching her get started made me realise that I needed to revisit my post Twitter – the basics and provide you with some more tips. Now I know it’s been done before but there are some folks who read this blog that don’t read Mashable and the like. So here goes. Blocking When my boss signed up her first follower was someone like “celebritysex101″. Clearly if you’re going to be presenting yourself in a [...]
Feed Update
I can see from my WordPress stats that traffic to my blog has increased since I’ve linked the feed to my Twitter and Facebook accounts. What I’m now keen to find out is whether I’ve got any subscribers (other than my parents and girlfriend). To gather this information I have run my feed through FeedBurner. For new subscribers the process is no different; just click on the ‘Subscribe in a reader’ link in the sidebar and add the feed to your reader in the usual way. For those of you that are already subscribing could you do me a favour [...]
