singing like a bird!

so i've been tweeting only 3 so far, but seems to be going OK. If you want to follow me (thanks for the gentle nudge Rowena) i'm citylibraryarts. when i first set up twitter i created a list of possible subjects and tweets, and one on the list was to view the BBC annual reports online as we link to those through the library catalogue and heard on the news this morning that they were releasing the most recent one today. they haven't yet but i've tweeted it anyway as i'm off to the arlis conference later today and won't be able to tweet while i'm there (no smartphone) which is a shame, cos arlis attendees can tweet using the #arlis2011 hash tag. so just tweeted that. i've also been creating lists for each of the depts I support and putting those i'm following into useful categories for my subjects to find. haven't quite figured out how lists work, but i'm hash tagging each tweet for each dept that its relevant to so filing the tweets of releavnce that way too. so foudn that twitter is a good way to spread the word about current resources of relevance to my students, how to tag subject specific tweets (translation are interested in very different things to music) and getting in some practice before the start of the year when i'll promote it to students. all i need now are a few more followers.....

fly away home

just managed to get back and check out 23 things after a week off. Relieved to see that i have done a number of the last few weeks things already. I have set up a twitter account in the past but not been brave enough to tweet, I even found a list of backup tweets that I could use for my subjects if I get stuck. I did start to follow a lot of relevant accounts for my subject, so am just going in and updating it now. I'm really keen on using web 2.0 tools but my main concern, I guess like when I started the blog is if I will have the time to keep all of these ways of communicating up to date. I guess its not just that but I need to keep myself up to date on all my subjects first, before I can make others aware of them. But I guess I can do that by getting my twitter account set up so i'm following the right people and make the news come to me? And I don't have a phone that does all this stuff either.And before I didn't really even have time to figure out how has tags worked properly, but I'm getting it. I've just read Emily blog and am feeling a bit inspired that she went through a similar experience with Twitter in that her first tweets were sporadic and a little ad hoc. verena's just said the same thing, so here goes I'm going to brave my first tweet!