I've already blogged about Thing 4, but (due to the large number of positive blog posts from others) over the last week have been pushing myself to understand Twitter more and think it has been worth it!
I spent the evening shift on Tuesday lurking around #uklibchat. I'd seen it mentioned and was just trying to get my head around how it worked. Basically, it's run using Twitter and everyone contributing adds the hash tag #uklibchat so that the conversation can be tracked. This sounded rather chaotic to me, but the website suggests using a Twitter client in order to search for the tag and follow the conversation. I've been using my iPad so tried downloading the apps for the clients suggested. Sorry Hootsuite (too many columns!) and Tweetdeck (designed for iPhone) but after a search for other free Twitter apps I've ended up using Echofon.
The ability to save searches had previously escaped me, but for the chat it worked really well (ignoring the many retweets). It meant that my screen was only filled with relevant tweets, whereas I'd been imagining having to filter them out from my main feed. I didn't feel I had much to contribute to the topic (leadership) this time round, but enjoyed reading what others said and I look forward to future sessions.
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