Presented via live webcast July 23, 2009 for the College Center for Library Automation's Talking Tech Series: "Tweeting and Texting".

1. CCLA’s Talking Tech Series: "Tweeting and Texting" Presented by: Chad Mairn July 23, 2009 www.slideshare.net/chadmairn Attribution: dbarefoot http://twitter.com/Talking_Tech

3. What is Twitter and why should I care?

6. Do you really need to know what everyone is doing all the time?

7. No! Twitter helps share and connect people with ideas that you find interesting. You can also find people that may will help you discover new things! Kind of like a library, right? Hmmm … Clive Thompson (AKA, @pomeranian99) mentions “ambient awareness” in that “each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting” – filled with blended color and meaning. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html ?

10. What are #hashtags? .org/ A hashtag is a “convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.” They are basically tags to help better organize tweets. (e.g., The next tweets are the main points from my Pecha Kucha session “Strategies for the Mobile Future of Libraries” at #CIL2009 # mobilelib ) For more information check out: http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/twitter-hashtags/

11. Twitter Groups (i.e., Twibes) I belong to: librarians, EdTech, and drummers.

14. Twitter Browser

16. Try using for class conversations!

17. Please contact me if you are interested in my updated Twitter assignment and I’ll send you more details.

19. Give students and library patrons the option to send direct messages to your Twitter account. It is another way for them to stay in contact with you!

20. Use class #hashtags #cts1101

21. A few student Tweets Word cloud was made via http:// www.wordle.net /

23. Build a widget ( http:// twitter.com /downloads ), then create a new page in CMS by pasting the code.

24. Promote library news via various channels -- Library Blog, Twitter, Toolbars, etc.

25. Add a Twitter widget to your web site

26. Allow people to bookmark and share your content. TweetMeme Button Wibiya toolbar! Viigo

27. You can use Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft’s Popfly (soon to be gone) or other mashup tools to create new/useful content for your users. This Pipe looks complex (and it is), but you can easily clone Pipes based around Twitter and modify them for your use.

28. This Pipe searches Twitter and returns the results with user name, time, and source info embedded in the description.

29. Twitter Applications From http://www.flickr.com/photos/futileboy/3026065024/ TwitterBerry STT and TTS TwitterFon for iPhone Consider making something using the Twitter API.

30. Other ways to use Twitter TwitterGadget in Gmail Manage multiple accounts with Twhirl! Provide access to other services

31. Twitter visualizations TweetStats http://mashable.com/2009/03/16/twitter-visualizations/ TwitterThoughts Twitter Stream Graph Minsh: underwater social world Twitter Earth Twitter Blocks

32. “ Tweet this” from within Twine FYI: Twine can help you discover information that matters to you and allows you to collect and share bookmarks and other content while receiving recommendations based on your interests. Hmm … kind of like a library, right?

33. What is texting and why should I care?

34. Invite [email_address] to work within Google Talk or create something similar for answering questions.

36. Other Texting/SMS services E v e r y t h i n g FYI: working on adding texting functionality. ThmbSavrs Wants to add texting functionality too. $.99 per answer. Std messaging charges apply

37. I do give my students my cell number and ask them only to contact me when they’ve tried every other communication channel. I have answered their questions via text and voice and it is the stressed out students who are so appreciative!

38. Why are you doing this?

40. Comments/Questions? Chad Mairn, M.L.I.S. St. Petersburg College  e-mail: mairn.chad@spcollege.edu  office: (727) 341.7181 [email_address] Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn Unfinished business: http:// chadmairn.pbwiki.com / chadmairn @cmairn