[Web4lib] How Twitter can make History

[Robert Balliot]

Clay Shirky author of Here Comes Everybody discusses how social media has
changed our intellectual
and communication landscape in this fascinating video:

            http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/#research


This timely presentation looks a how to effectively use social media -
Facebook, Twitter and other tools to
convene and convey a message with a pattern of 'many to many'. The message
of this brilliant lecture is the tradition
of one-way authoritative delivery of information is becoming extinct.

This talk certainly supports the notion that Library websites should become
more interactive and participatory.

R. Balliot
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com