#10 (Week 4) Twitter, Tweeters and Tweets

I watched the YouTube video on Twitter and then signed up, I don't really think I would use Twitter that much, I would rather use Facebook to keep up with friends and I like RSS feeds for keeping up to date with things that interest me such as books and music. I would prefer to keep up to date with current events by visiting the NZ Herald website or Yahoo news as they are regularly updated.

Whenever I put keywords in the search box on Twitter for subjects I was interested in it often came up with no results so it was difficult to find things (I probably just need to explore twitter a bit more to get the hang of it). I have added a some twitter accounts to follow and I also linked my Blogger account with my Twitter account.

I don't see the point in posting everything little thing that you do in your personal life or following every little thing that a friend does in their everyday life, it is more interesting to follow famous people or to keep updated with the latest news on books or music. Twitter seems to be just another way for many people or companies to advertise their businesses for free so you are bombarded with ads like many of the other social networking sites such as Facebook. Libraries could of course use Twitter to let library patrons know what's happening at their local library.



Here is my twitter account link:


http://twitter.com/rocknrollbelle

#9 Week 4 Learn About RSS Feeds & Set Up a Bloglines Account

I had set up an RSS feed last year through work training at my site and also watched the tutorial on it, so I am familiar with RSS feeds. I have them set up on my computer at home and at work but I never bother to look at them much I usually visit the websites or read monthly e-newsletters. I had fun familiarising myself with my RSS feeds I've subscribed to some of my favourite graphic novel publishers such as Fantagraphic Books and Drawn & Quarterly. The feeds are just like blogs and many of them have really great photos and pictures added.

I've also subscribed to all the latest feeds on the ACL website about new books and DVDs that come into our library so I can keep up to date with all the latest for myself and patrons of my library, and I can also be of some assistance to those who inquire about RSS feeds.

The only thing I don't like about RSS feeds is that I often forget about them unless I actually click onto the feeds box and keep it open. I tend to take more notice of e-newsletters. I think about 2 hours went by while I was reading them all!