I must admit out of all the new tools I’ve tried out this
semester, Twitter has been the one I have not taken too.
Possibly that’s because I can’t see it being
taken too seriously in a professional working environment – but then again
maybe I just haven’t given it a really good go.
I really didn’t like many of the short, abbreviated messages – most just simply
didn’t make a lot of sense or seem worth tweeting...
I did sign up to a number of what I considered
professional sites Library of Congress, NMIT, NY Public Library, National
Library of Australia and the British Library and for something not so library
focused – our Prime Minister. Plus our group too. I did have a lot more but realised I was being
bombarded and felt swamped by them so deleted the less relevant (ie The Block,
Stephen Fry – what is he on about??!!).
I’m just making a re-visit to my Twitter site after some
weeks of neglect and counted up the number of tweets I sent which was a grand
total of five – not very impressive I realise but then I hadn’t signed up to
many sites that made me compelled to respond or re-tweet. Except maybe the PM when she re-tweeted a
tweet from Wayne Swan (or Swanny as was his address told me) which was totally
inane - and I felt this deserved a response but I held my tweet and didn’t do
it... Sorry but all politicians fail to
impress me.
To show you how boring I like my tweets I’ve added in
some below – they are short, sharp and to the point and (to me) show effective use of tweets in a professional IM environment and if I’m interested I can
follow up easily.
I know if I’m going
to use this more I’m going to have to learn to filter a lot better than I do
and simply try and not read them all. Like all tools a bit more practice is needed...
The following show effective use of tweets in a professional IM environment;
Celebrate Drop Everything and Read Day! Kick off National Library with
books recommended by @NYPL staff. http://ow.ly/k0Hc9
Subscribe to the @NYPL Now! Programs
newsletter for the latest events at the Library: http://ow.ly/k08R3
Shakespeare Week! Join us for a special series of lectures in April
honoring Shakespeare. Starting April 15: http://ow.ly/k08xQ
A bit like 2001: A Space Odyssey: article on the @spectator blog about archiving the internet #digitaluniverse http://bit.ly/ZaKotK
Twitter is like marzipan: it's not for everyone.
ReplyDeleteI agree that sometimes the tweets feel pointless; there are so many of them, many of which do not make much sense. I'm guilty of this myself and can only imagine what my measly 24 followers think when I'm tweeting stuff during the ISYS1166 lectures....madness.
That said, I like the tweets you've pulled out in this post. The NYPL is an excellent tweeter generally - whoever is responsible for managing that twitter account is a gem.
Anyway - good to have learnt a new tool, even if it's not something you warmed to and want to use again. At least you know how to do it and could do it again in professional environment if ever the need arose.
Nice work :)