Yes - I have been twittering, facebooking, urging others to do likewise, and madly saving websites, articles and the like on Delicious. All useful tools!
The best part of Twitter has been keeping up with my sister who has been living under what amounts to house arrest in Islamabad for just over a year (she's due home next week!). Even got my mother onto Twitter so she'd know what was going on with our world-traveler. Anyway, via Twitter we've known that my sister was safe and sound, had experienced an earthquake, saw a Lamborghini in Islamabad, as well as assorted vehicles all hell-bent on arriving where ever they were headed before anyone else might get there... and on and on. It beat rare phone calls - try coordinating phone calls when the person you want to call is 10 hours ahead of you (it always seems to be tomorrow where she is).
Yesterday I was poking around the lists of libraries that use Twitter and found one in Manchester, NH (I think I've actually been in that one!) using Twitter to update their customers on library happenings. They let folks know when they had closed early due to weather, that a particular part of the library was closed, and other assorted pieces of information a library patron might want to know. Made me think that we could use Twitter to let our patrons know when a hot new title is available...
Now, if I could just get our Facebook page to feed all sorts of cool library info... but that means learning code. (just watch my eyes glaze over, besides, I don't think that way)
In which it's cold outside and Turkey day is near!
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