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Tweet, Tweet…

Written on: May 19th, 2009 by: in Learning Journeys

Honoré here: In my April 27 post, I wrote about  Steve Leveen's blog post on the ubiquitous 3 x 5 index card. Kathy and I are allegedly using the 21st Century version of the 3 x 5 card: Twitter. 

Perhaps you've heard of Twitter and tweets – short, 140 character posts that chronicle such mundane things as what you're doing or thinking or, or, or … at any given moment in time. Twitter's hot these days – all sorts of people, including Oprah, Ellen deGeneres, President Obama, tweet. Local radio and tv news stations, newspapers, use Twitter to instantly communicate and update their readers  on a certain topic or event.  A quick Google search identifies different ways Twitter [and similar other social networking sites such as Yammer, Facebook ] are used. This research study from PewResearch: "Twitterpated: Mobile Americans Increasingly Take to Tweeting" gives a recent [Dec 2008] overview. 

It does not surprise me that libraries of all ilk, from the Library of Congress to the smallest of rural libraries, use Twitter. The TwitterLeague  lists libraries on Twitter ranked by the Twitter follower counts. Click on any of the libraries – I found that right clicking to open up a new window worked best – to see how libraries currently in the league are using Twitter. The New York Public Library uses Twitter to draw attention to the many services, programs and resources that support any individual's personal learning quest  and especially to draw attention to how valuable and viable the public library is, especially in these t o u g h economic times.

To get back to the subject – why are Kathy and I tweeting? Ostensibly for an online scrapbooking class we're taking – the subject is on writing/journaling (apparently many scrapbookers experience writer's block – though that isn't our problem, we're both quite comfortable with writing and words. We're taking the class because we enjoy the facilitator, read her blog and learn a lot from her classes. ..in short, we're headed down another learning path…) I suspect that we'll add tweets to this blog ~ just as soon as we both get a little more comfortable with the medium. In the meantime, stay tuned. Tweet. Tweet.

Cheers~