[Web4lib] Who should I follow? - Twitter

[Laura Krier]

Well, that's different. I suppose librarians would be more interested
in following other librarians. You didn't specify who the webinar was
for.

Though I have to say the "so-called celebrities" are sometimes a lot
funnier than the librarians. Sometimes, but not always. :-)

laura

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Wilfred Drew <DrewW at tc3.edu> wrote:
> I am not going down that road. I don't follow any so-called celebrities. The list is not targeted at the general public.  It is targeted at librarians.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Laura Krier
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:47 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Who should I follow? - Twitter
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> I'd recommend adding some comedians, actors, musicians, and people of
> interest to the general public to the list. I personally love Rainn
> Wilson, Stephen Colbert, and Michael Ian Black (comedians), and
> Amateur Gourmet, David Lebovitz, Marion Nestle, and Evan Kleiman
> (cooks and food bloggers). Chances are most library patrons aren't
> going to be that interested in following librarians.
>
> Laura
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:46 AM, R. Wood <rw at ncf.ca> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:58:43AM -0500, Wilfred Drew stated:
>>> In an attempt to help participants in a webinar about Twitter that I
>>> did yesterday, I have created a webpage of people, libraries, and
>>> organizations that may serve as a good place to start following on
>>> Twitter.  It is very subjective and includes people and libraries that
>>> have told me they are willing to be followed and  willing to help
>>> others learn to use Twitter.  I am still adding to the page. The page
>>> is at http://sites.google.com/site/scrlctwitter/who-should-i-follow-
>>> or short URL - http://bit.ly/6fxmUN .
>>>
>>> The website I created for the webinar is at
>>> http://sites.google.com/site/scrlctwitter/home .  It is open for the
>>> world to use and will be subject to change as I see fit.
>>>
>>> Enjoy.
>>> Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S.
>>
>> As a matter of interest, there is a FOSS[1] alternative to Twitter at
>> http://identi.ca
>>
>> The community is smaller than twitter and tends to focus on more
>> technical/techie topics (though not exclusively).  There are also
>> mechanisms to propogate tweets to Identica (where they are referred to
>> as 'dents' ;-) and possibly vice versa
>>
>> If you have any interest in supporting FOSS, I highly recommend having a
>> look at Identica.
>>
>> [1] Free and Open Source Software
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