I looked at the link for the 2008 SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards, and was rather puzzled to find that those awards were bestowed on May 9, 2007. Given how fast trends change and websites morph into other things, that seems like a really old set of awards. And why was it called the 2008 awards more than half a year ahead of time? But aside from that, I enjoyed poking around and looking at some of the websites they featured. Many were familiar: Facebook, Myspace, Delicious, and more that Learning 2.0 has explored. Others are long gone, or require a paid subscription to access.
The Tool that I have spent the most time with is Twitter. I signed up for an account back in January, and posted a couple of pretty boring updates: "I'm waiting for the bus." or "Having a cup of coffee." This may be why I have so few "followers!" On the other hand, I quickly caught on to the fact that it's fun to follow Tweeters who have something to say. I don't like to spend a lot of time with it, so I don't follow many, but I enjoy following Scott Simon and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me from NPR. I follow Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and several of my knitting sheroes. I follow Steven Fry (British voice of Harry Potter, and Jeeves, from the Jeeves and Wooster series). He's geeky and fun, and very up with all sorts of world events. He also likes to try all sorts of Web 2.0 apps, and shares them regularly via his website and tweets. Besides people, I follow Bike to Work Spokane, which keeps me up-to-date on what's happening with the local cycling scene. And, I follow the tweets of Sno-Isle Regional Library.
Sno-Isle sends out several tweets every day with reminders about upcoming programs, book recommendations and more. They post links to more information so the 140 character limit of a tweet is no problem. I subscribe to the general Sno-Isle tweets. They also have a Twitter account just for Teens, in which they promote their services just to teens.
I think it would be fun to see how we could make this service work at SCLD as well. Like Sno-Isle, it would be great to remind followers about our many programs and services, but I also wonder if it could be used to do some quick reference services. Our customers could tweet us with a quick question, and we could reply within a certain time frame, say every 1-4 hours. Since it isn't necessary to do it in real time, the way QuestionPoint is, it could be easily managed from the reference desk. Something to explore, I think.
I log in to Twitter in two ways; via my computer at home, directly on the web. I also have a program on my iPhone, called Twitterific, which allows me to check what's new, and post my own tweets. I can even post Twitpics that way. And, whenever I post anything, I have it linked into my Facebook account, so the Tweet or Twitpic shows up there as well.
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