Comments on: two notes about twitter

By: Simon Chamberlain’s library weblog » Blog Archive » Friend Feed and social networks generally

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:45:51 +0000

[...] enough for now, will play around and see how it works out. Not completely related, but similar: Jessamyn West and Phil Bradley have commented on their guidelines for deciding who to follow on Twitter. [...]

By: links for 2009-01-08 « Nur mein Standpunkt

links for 2009-01-08 « Nur mein Standpunkt — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:04:14 +0000

[...] librarian.net » Blog Archive » two notes about twitter Wie man Twitter für Bibliotheken nutzen kann. Ich kenne immer noch keine Bibliothek als solche, die twittert. Mitarbeiter schon, aber offizieller Twitteraccount von deutschen Bibliotheken – Fehlanzeige bisher. (tags: netbib) [...]

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:03:18 +0000

I feel like for things like keeping current with the profession, ambient intimacy is fine. I don’t pretend that these people are my friends because we co-twitter, but I do know a little but about what they’re up to. It’s also been useful to me in a sort of lazyweb way to ask questions and crowdsource some things (easier if you have a lot of people following you). I don’t miss it if I’m on vacation for a week but if I’m home and working, it’s part of my info flow.

By: Nathan Flinchum

Nathan Flinchum — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:58:52 +0000

I read an article a year or so ago talking about the concept of “ambient intimacy”; that seeing these little bits and pieces of others’ lives make us feel connected even though (arguably) we’re not. I know more about random librarians across the country thanks to Twitter, etc. than I do about a lot of the folks I see every day and I’m OK with that.

By: Phil Bradley

Phil Bradley — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:32:01 +0000

Hiya… really interested in viewing your version; I can see where you’re coming from with all of those points. Well, maybe except the Romanian point. :) I’ve just had a huge influx of new followers (well, huge for me) which I think are coming from the Twitter Add Pack collection and none of them are librarians or work in the industry so I’m a bit mystified, unless they’re just hoping for an automatic follow back which isn’t going to happen.

You’re spot on when it comes to the number of people you can follow back, and I’m getting drawn towards resources like Twitter Deck which let me follow a lot of people but concentrate on just a few.

By: jamesfox

jamesfox — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:43:07 +0000

ecofont is a go. giving twitter a test drive. best to all.

By: Carleen

Carleen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:13:25 +0000

I’m with you on c). It’s too overwhelming when people update too much and I have far too much to do during then day than keep up with that many twitters. Thanks, great suggestions here. :-)

By: Stephanie Chausse

Stephanie Chausse — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:05:10 +0000

I appreciate your comments and no-nonsense twitter guidelines…kind of a twitter if/then list. I decided to try twitter at Providence Public Library a month or so ago and it’s been a lot of fun testing it out and learning more about its benefits while learning to steer away from time-wasting…still a lot to learn on both ends. So it’s great to share stuff with library tech-minded people who understand that dichotomy and get feedback, correction, affirmation, ideas…because this type of job can be isolating and the benefits not always recognized, if you know what I mean. And sometimes the benefits do not outweigh the time invested but we’ll never know unless we have the opportunity to test stuff like this out and get feedback from others. So thanks again for the feedback.