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.<\/p>\n
I thought I’d share my handout<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n I didn’t talk as much about Twitter for job<\/a> searching<\/a> as I meant to, but overall, I think it went well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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…<\/p>\n