More Twitter thoughts

With my envy for those going to CiL this weekend at the fore of my thoughts, and seeing Michelle's post in my Bloglines this morning, I realized Twitter would be good for those of us who aren't married to their cell phones for text messaging purposes, but adore our PDAs when trying to notify friends of our locations at conferences. ACRL was my first time really putting my cell phone through its texting capability paces. I didn't have my PDA with me, as it was enjoying an unexpected vacation at my parents' house, but as there was free wireless available, I would have easily been able to update my Twitter account with my location without messing around with texting and the accompanying charges. I'm trying to remember now if Marc Smith talked about Twitter in particular when he mentioned MoSoSo in his January presentation. The Twitter Fan Wiki has been of some help, and I'd recommend it for anyone wanting to look further into Twitter's uses. I'm still not sure how to best utilize Twitter in a library setting, but I can see some of the personal uses. Once again, with social networking software, an application is not going to be used if the user cannot see how it applies to their life.

Keeping an open mind

I need to keep this short and sweet. I signed up for a Twitter account. Not to let everyone know what I'm actually doing, but as a way to easily update a "currently reading" feature on the sidebar over there. I like to tell people about what I'm reading because one of my long-standing interests is RA. As constantly updating the template through Blogger would be a bit of a pain, I thought this would be a good way to experiment with Twitter. We'll see. In the meantime, feel free to comment on the books I'm reading!

I'm off to the Iowa Library Association's Legislative Day, so look for the next update after I arrive in Baltimore for ACRL.