Thing 17: Explore and contribute to a wiki Thing 18: Discover Wikipedia Now that I’ve started thinking about it I have created and contributed to quite a few wikis over the past few years. As a member of the Bodleian Libraries web 2.0 working party I have been an active member of the Social OULS wiki. Taking part in both the Library Day in the Life and Library Routes projects also required work with wikis in order to provide links to my blog posts on the subject. I began exploring wikis a couple of years ago when I was asked [...]
March, 2010:
Things 15 & 16 – Twitter
Thing 15: Sign up for Twitter and find people to follow Thing 16: Start engaging with your network using @replies and retweets Using this helpful tool I have just discovered that I joined Twitter on 22nd October 2008. I didn’t get it first time though and let my account go dormant for a while until picking up again and posting my first tweet on 25th February 2009. After that I was hooked and started singing Twitter’s praises far and wide. I wrote two introductory posts on it on this blog (Twitter – the basics and Twitter – the next level) [...]
Things 13 & 14 – Social networking
Thing 13: Write about how libraries can use different features of Facebook to connect with their users. Thing 14: Explore and sign up for LinkedIn. I have been a member of Facebook for a good few years now and find it helps me keep up with friends and family who I don’t see on a regular basis. What I like about it is probably what everyone else hates – I like hearing about the minutiae of my friends lives because that’s the stuff that often gets forgotten in a phone call or email. I could do without Farmville though. The [...]
