Last week Jess and I ran a session called ‘Making the web work for you’ as part of a seminar series for researchers. The aim of the session was to introduce researchers to some online tools for finding and managing information. We covered the following: RSS feeds start pages search alerts table of contents alerts blogs Twitter social bookmarking The session had fairly poor attendance with only 3 of the 6 who had booked actually turning up. If we run it again we need to think more about how we market it to ensure researchers see the relevance of these [...]
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) [...]
BBSLG Members' Forum – Twitter demo
As I mentioned in my previous post, I did a quick demo of Twitter during the Members’ Forum at the BBSLG conference last week – the few slides I used can be found on Slideshare. At the beginning of the session a show of hands indicated that around 20 (approximately half of the group) people already had Twitter accounts. Of those about 10 tweeted once a week and only 2 or 3 tweeted once a day or more. This had been my suspicion and so I angled my talk to focus on why you should give Twitter another try. The [...]
