Week 4: Social Media

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be*

Thing 10: This week I founded a twitter account. I have used it in a professional setting before through @CitySCHSlibrary . This is my first personal account. It’s been good to have access to such valuable information. It’s interesting to be doing Thing 10 the week when NOTW, a fellow Shadwell institution, has closed shop. A lot of commentators have written about the role of twitter and facebook in the downfall of the newspaper. #notw for more

Thing 11: I added Christopher Pressler from Senate House Library. As that's a library I use quite often I thought it would be interesting to compare his tweets and blog posts to my personal experiences of the library. I am also following some interesting people who work in HE such as @Sihophone  I am still finding it slightly hard to navigate the site but that will pass.

Thing 12: I have decided to skip joining linked in for the moment. Speaking to colleagues and reading other blogs there seems to be a trend here. I might give it a go in the catch up week though.

One Extra Cool thing: I have a Facebook account already. I mostly use it “socially” but I have liked some “professional” pages on it. I like to research areas of interest on it as well. I enjoyed the film but like most people get annoyed by the constant changes in security or set up.

I liked the Orkney Library page.

* (Richard Hornshaw, 2011 Derivative Licence)