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
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From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Nicola Osborne
Sent: 28 March 2012 12:18
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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
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>> 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)
>>
>> Wendy Taylor
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