Hi Wendy, hi all :)
My name's Harpreet Dhillon and I'm a Bibliographical Support Assistant at City of London. At the moment I'm only on Livejournal, Tumblr, Goodreads and Librarything (only), but over the years I've used and enjoyed Wordpress, Blogspot, Livejournal, Shelfari, Lastfm, Facebook and Twitter. In fact, I think I enjoyed Twitter so much when it first arrived that I had to give it up, but I still do the odd hash tag search because it's quite an invaluable source of current information (I work underground so it was nice to see a tweet by Zach Braff commenting on how sunny London, helping me to decide if I wanted to go out for lunch or not). I'm actually considering signing up with Twitter again, this time for professional use as there's a good presence of information professionals out there and a good stream of information. Also, as I sometimes tweet for @GuildhallLib, it's reawakened my interest in that particular site.
Facebook is a site that I used for about three months, intensely disliked and then abandoned. I doubt I'll ever sign up for an account again. I still can't quite put my finger on what I find so annoying about Facebook, but it really wasn't for me. I have only recently discovered Pinterest and have been lurking around it to see if it's something I might enjoy using. At the moment, every time I visit someone's Pinterest page it makes me feel quite anxious.
Currently, none of my accounts are locked, but there's always a hesitation to share usernames with colleagues, even if they're aware of certain geeky proclivities they may not care for the whiff of political leanings on my Tumblr, my reading choices on Goodreads and, back in the old days, my extremely ropy taste in music. I can understand people who lock accounts to separate the personal and professional because we all do censor ourselves to a certain degree to present a professional image and online interaction is quite brilliant at breaking your think-before-you-speak filter (as anyone who has participated in a 'someone on the internet is wrong' argument will know). Also, having an open account does leave you vulnerable to anonymous trolling. I remember someone getting very vocal about a book review on my personal blog once and it was quite a nasty experience. But I learned my lesson – never say anything mean about Sherlock Holmes on the internet.
Anyway, late to the party, but really enjoying this discussion J
Harpreet.
Harpreet Dhillon
Bibliographical Support Assistant
Bibliographical Services Section
Culture Heritage & Libraries
Tel: 020 7332 3095
website: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
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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
Librarian, Bibliographic Services
RNIB National Library Service
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