Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Twittering on

Library twitters were fascinating to follow. They advised of events, promoted specific books or reading for pleasure, and responded to followers' tweets. Some were educational, with 10 tips for this or that, one tip per tweet. One site was tweeting about an event as it happened - perhaps Birkenhead Library could try this on opening day - a running commentary! Another updated patrons about a systems outage, and I spotted a competition - the 100th tweet wins a prize.

The styles vary from normal, trendy to frankly alien. They include links to topical websites. The 'audience' is assumed to use other social networking sites, and to be (it seems) on their cell phones and computers practically all the time.

A tweet for North Shore libraries (see www.shorelibraries.govt.nz)

Going away, heading for sunshine? Avoid library meltdown, smart dudes freeze requests; my info, log in, requests, tick and freeze. Yay!

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