Twitter

Well, set up my Twitter account - it wasn't so hard and I even put in a profile picture of myself. My struggle was more how to determine who I should follow, but in the end it worked out. As I'm in the midst of reading Derryl Murphy's new novel, Napier's Bones, I thought I would follow him and then I chose musicians -- David Francey and Great Big Sea (I thought they might be fun). I did not tweet, though, I think I need to decide why and what I will be tweeting about as I don't think everyone needs to know every thought going through my head...


Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Social Networking

I am probably one of the very few people who does not have a twitter or Facebook account. Not that people haven't asked me to. I have a sister and friends who live in other provinces and countries who are facebook folk and want me to join -- I have always had a bit of a concern about the privacy piece, but a lot of it is that I just don't really want another place to go to connect with people. Dealing with my personal e-mail sometimes is bad enough.... However, I think I might have to succumb :-)

However, at the library I previously worked at, we did have a library Twitter account and it became quite popular. The important thing is to keep it active (but not too active so that it irritates). People actually retweeted tweets and contacted us through Twitter too. By the time I left, the library had about 500 followers -- granted a number were other libraries or organizations, but there were also a significant number of personal followers. I do feel that it can work quite well.

"One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world."

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992