I looked at twitter, have signed up but not that interested to be honest. I will ask my colleagues how they use it perhaps to send brief info or perhaps they follow well known people??
I have checked out some tweets and how organisations could use this service to send quick bites of information to tempt the receiver. I think it's a good thing that it's limited to 140 characters which means you have to be concise and to the point which I like - no waffle.
Useful if you wanted to contact your list of contacts with the same message. Could link in with customers twitter address as well as their email address.
The library could send tweets about events, service upgrades, new books, send a tweet a week on one fact e.g.
Internet available at all libraries
School holiday programmes
No fines for children's books
New magazines
At a recent MCC meeting the speaker said that in the 1960s/1970s most people switched on to the 6.oopm news on TV or read the national newspaper or listened to Radio NZ but these days there are many ways people receive their information and the majority under 30 would not get it via these 3 mediums so all organisations have to use all the technology and traditional methods to get their message across so twitter is one of those options.
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Hi de hi - good, solid post! Twitter is definitely not everyone's cup of tea :) Very interesting point you make that, 30-40 yrs ago ppl preferred to use tv, newspapers and radio. I barely use any of those for news updates. Haven't really done so in a few years if only because I can get it quicker, with more updates, online. Congratulations for completing week 3.
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