Good suggestions both. I certainly think of Twitter as a river and your 
attention as a rather small bucket... you should never attempt to read 
every tweet in your stream - it will drive you to distraction! :)

- Nicola.


On 28/03/2012 12:24, Taylor, Wendy wrote:
> Thanks for the tip! I also liked Celine's comments that Twitter is like
> a river - a very soothing thought! I often think of Twitter as being
> like a Sunday paper. You flick through, read some pieces there and then,
> save some articles for later and bin the rest. The stress comes from
> thinking of it as being like email - you don't have to read everything
> and can have time away from it.
> Wendy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Nicola Osborne
> Sent: 28 March 2012 12:18
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Blogs
>
> This has reminded me of a top tip!
>
> You can set up automatic bookmarking of interesting links using tools
> like Packratius (http://packrati.us/) and, on a more sophisticated
> level, If This Then That (http://ifttt.com/).
>
> If This Then That lets you set up your own "recipe" for automated social
> media tasks. So for instance I've helped run the Repository Fringe
> unconference for the last few years and I have an IFTTT task for
> grabbing every tweet with the appropriate hashtag and emailing it to me
> - so I can reply from the conference and keep a note of the unique tweet
> URL for later. I have another task that bookmarks every link I tweet or
> retweet so that it is added to my delicious account.
>
> Recently I've also created an IFTTT task that takes anything I save with
> Instapaper and also bookmarks it to Delicious and adds a couple of
> specific tags to those saved links. I then use an Instapaper bookmarking
> button in my browser. So any interesting link I see I can just click one
> button and know it is being saved to read later and bookmarked and
> shared to the feed of bookmarks on my blog.
>
> Well worth a try for catching all those links. Although I did try
> setting up a task for any link anyone I follow tweeted... I wouldn't
> advise it! I'd quickly reached thousands of bookmarks, many not that
> useful. Thankfully I'd bookmarked these privately as it was a test of
> that recipe. Not to be repeated I think ;)
>
> - Nicola.
>
>
> On 28/03/2012 10:56, Taylor, Wendy wrote:
>> I used to use Google reader for reading blogs as it was easier than
>> remembering to look at them all. I've found I don't bother with this
>> so much now as I use Twitter to pick things up. The only danger is
>> missing a tweet about something I'd really like to read.
>> Wendy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Clifford, Katrina M
>> Sent: 28 March 2012 10:51
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Blogs
>>
>> Ah yes I forget about blogs sometimes as I've never been much of a
>> blogger... The subject teams here have blogs as does the Archives and
>> Special Collections, again not something I've been involved in.
>>
>>
>>
>> We did have an internal-only Repository blog that we used to post when
>> we'd made decisions about things (eg: how to handle book reviews).
>> We've also got a helpdesk blog (again internal only) where we can post
>> things that might be issues on the helpdesk (such as a database being
>> down) although since we did away with most of the upper floor
>> helpdesks it gets used less and I don't check it as much...
>>
>>
>>
>> Katrina
>>
>>
>>
>> From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Annie Johnson
>> Sent: 28 March 2012 10:18
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Welcome!
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> My name is Annie (on Twitter as @Annie_Bob), I work as a library
>> assistant in Cambridge, whilst studying for an MA at UCL. I'm somewhat
>> of a Twitter addict, and find it really useful for keeping up to date
>> and networking. For keeping up with cataloguing news, @HVcats Twitter
>> list of cataloguers is great. Our library also has a Twitter account
>> (@NewnhamLibrary) and we are thinking about starting a blog to promote
>> our special collections. I'm also on Facebook (although I tend to keep
>> this a personal account rather than professional), LinkedIn and have
>> my own blog.
>>
>> This is the first e-forum I have taken part in, it's a very
>> interesting topic and I look forward to it!
>>
>> Annie
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:59:42 +0100
>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Welcome!
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> Hello and welcome to the CIG eforum on social media in the
>>> cataloguing community!
>>>
>>> This morning we will be discussing individual and institutional use
>>> of Twitter and other social media. This afternoon, CIG are very
>>> pleased to welcome guest moderator Nicola Osborne, Social Media
>>> Officer for
>> EDINA.
>>> Nicola wrote a live blog post for the recent CIGS Web 2.0 and
>>> metadata seminar
>>> (http://nicolaosborne.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/03/02/liveblog-cigs-web-
>>> 2 -0 -and-metadata-seminar/); she also gave a presentation at the
>>> seminar on Developments in Web 2.0
>>>
> (http://prezi.com/yhvtvnly4evo/this-talk-is-meta-and-so-is-this-title/).
>>>    From 1.30pm you will have the opportunity to ask Nicola questions
>>> about her presentation and she will also be introducing the topic of
>>> social media use in OPACs.
>>>
>>> But for now, we'd like people to introduce themselves and describe
>>> their use of Twitter and other social media for either personal or
>>> professional use. I'll start by saying my interest is probably
>>> greater than my knowledge! I have been on Twitter for a couple of
>>> years but have only really "got it" in the last few months as a
>>> valuable tool
>> for CPD.
>>> I find it really useful for links to blogs and articles. I don't use
>>> Facebook anymore but I am on LinkedIn and am very interested in
>>> pinterest (I love the pretty pictures!). I work for the RNIB, which
>>> has Facebook and Twitter accounts, including an account dedicated to
>>> accessible reading @RNIBread.
>>>
>>> So, what about you? Please share, whatever your level of experience -
>>> whether you're a twitterholic or you think that tweets should be left
>>> to the birds, we'd love to hear from you.
>>>
>>> Wendy (@mrswtaylor)
>>>
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