Twitter

After the first session we had of Twitter, I realised the potential this could have as an information tool. As a first step, I have used my new found Twitter skills to follow professionals and organisations from the library world and the children and young adults sector as well. I am also following some people just for personal interest. My full list of who I am following can be found at My Twitter Page.

My second step was to ‘Pimp my Desktop’. Inspired by this pic of Lyn Hay’s desktop during the tweetup I downloaded Mozilla Firefox to become my main browser, then added the Yoono add on, to keep my most used social networking tools in one place. The following 2 pics are the before and after shots of my desktop.

Before

After

While I forgot to take the second pic at the time, during the second Twitter session I was watching the video we were asked to view while the session was going on. I could view this video in the main window, while still paying attention to what other students and Lyn were saying via Yoono. This is probably my most improved area of using social networking technologies throughout this subject.
Since downloading Firefox I have also added a few new add-ons. Google Reader, to alert me when I have new feeds to read, Delicious, for easy tagging of any website at any time, and the weather, to keep track of it at any time