Twitter Howto

Last week SLA's Pittsburgh chapter had a "Reverse Mentoring" meeting, where library students showed professional librarians the Web 2.0 ropes, as it were. I was the designated Twitter person. We also had someone to cover blogging/RSS - Blogger and Google Reader, social networking sites - Facebook and LinkedIN, social tagging - del.icio.us and LibraryThing, collaborative workspaces - Google Docs and wikis, and a Kindle (not that that's very "Web 2.0," per se, but people were still really interested, and I feel like librarians should all get our hands on ebook readers if at all possible). It was very well-received, and I think everyone--including the presenters--learned a lot.

I thought I'd share my handout with you, in case you were curious about basic Twitterisms (e.g. retweeting, replying vs. direct messaging, hashtags) and applications (e.g. TweetDeck, TwitterGadget for Gmail, Digsby, and a couple you may not have heard of). There are a couple of links on there, to more information, as well.

I didn't talk as much about Twitter for job searching as I meant to, but overall, I think it went well.