Friday, July 24, 2009

Social Networking

I had heard of Twitter and Facebook before I read about them in Learn 2.5.
I just learned about Linkedin, which seems a great connector between
libraries. Right now personally, I don't use any of these tools because
I don't have a need to, but who knows what the future holds.

I work in a department where it is easy to communicate with those I work with
because we are all in the same room. Twitter would come in handy if one of us
had to send a quick message to someone in another department or location.
Twitter is also a quick way to communicate to the public for something that
is happening right now that you think people would be interested in. So I would
say that Twitter would be a useful tool in connecting to the public.
Linkedin would be good to keep in touch with other people who work at
other libraries and to see what is going on. May be a quick way of getting
ideas that we haven't thought of and utilizing those ideas right away or when
it's needed.