Thing 27 Twitter

I played around a little bit with Twitter and it seemed like it could be an extremely useful tool. I could see Twitter being used in our library in a variety of ways. Twitter could be used to advertise events going on in the library, share information about new (or old) resources that are available, and provide important information about the technology in the library. A group for our student workers may also be helpful. We could send them payroll reminders; alert them to any changes to the manual, or any information that may be important for them to know right away. Twitter would be a great place to share a variety of information with our users. However, I also think that it is a tool that could very easily be over done and eventually become annoying. I feel as though one should be selective about what they are putting up there. If you were to update too often and have only minimal content I think people would start to feel bothered by the updates and begin ignoring them. I doubt that I would use it too much personally but that could change in the future. Right now most people I communicate with in this manner use Facebook for updating. If you would like to follow me my username vikingp.