Sunday, January 25, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Thing 7
(Written while waiting for a notoriously impatient, rude, and technically inept patron to explode. She left with just a few sighs, grunts, muttered curses, and after throwing an offending printout behind the printer where it could be a fire hazard—oops, now she's back.)
Using MeeboMe to enhance the PAC is a good idea, especially for patrons using the catalogue from their homes.
Twitter could be used to give general announcements: "The library is closed due to the weather," "Monday we have a special book sale," "Advanced Word Class Tuesdays 6:30-8:00." There could be multiple threads: Employees, Adult Services, Mystery lovers, cat fanciers, etc.
Problems: Getting People to check their Twitter feed (at least until they get used to doing it) and Who will feed the feed?
Another pain with Twitter and Facebook is that the inbox of the email address I gave when I signed up is full of notices from people and groups that claim to be folowing me and want me to do the same with them. I don't have time to sort through all these self-promotong goobers, much less follow them. It's like SPAM all over again. I blame you, Phil. Tweet this! (Update: I just read an article about how Twitter has become an avenue for spammers, so Tweet this twice, Phil!)
Using MeeboMe to enhance the PAC is a good idea, especially for patrons using the catalogue from their homes.
Twitter could be used to give general announcements: "The library is closed due to the weather," "Monday we have a special book sale," "Advanced Word Class Tuesdays 6:30-8:00." There could be multiple threads: Employees, Adult Services, Mystery lovers, cat fanciers, etc.
Problems: Getting People to check their Twitter feed (at least until they get used to doing it) and Who will feed the feed?
Another pain with Twitter and Facebook is that the inbox of the email address I gave when I signed up is full of notices from people and groups that claim to be folowing me and want me to do the same with them. I don't have time to sort through all these self-promotong goobers, much less follow them. It's like SPAM all over again. I blame you, Phil. Tweet this! (Update: I just read an article about how Twitter has become an avenue for spammers, so Tweet this twice, Phil!)
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