Jennie raises a good point - a Smartphone is a real help if you want to
access Twitter etc regularly. We haven't heard from anyone not using
Twitter. I'm interested if one of the barriers is the thought of going
online at the end of day in front of the computer? Are most people who
are using Twitter using a Smartphone?
Wendy
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Hi,
I joined Twitter largely because I was going to Umbrella 2011, and there
was so much publicity of the hashtag and I wanted to follow what was
happening.
I'm @mininglibrarian, and now I have a smartphone I find that I use it a
lot more. I'm a solo librarian and it makes me feel more connected to
the wider librarianship world. I do use it to ask work questions, I
think I would find it hard to separate my work and personal friends in
many ways.
Facebook I use almost entirely as a personal thing, I do also manage an
institutional page for the Institute as well though. I do use my
personal account to "like" and join a few CILIP related pages and groups
but I wouldn't seek out someone I met purely professionally on Facebook
and "friend" them in the same way I would feel comfortable going and
following them without, perhaps, even meeting them.
Jennie Kelly
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers.
Newcastle upon Tyne
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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
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