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Tweet Crunch | Latest news from Twitter and Micro Blogging BrainThud - Remember Tame The Web » Blog Archive » Librarian, Library and Catalog Tweets Revealed! I’m always on the lookout for innovative uses of social tools in libraries. This weekend I got an email from John Wohlers, Library Technology Assistant, Waubonsee Community College, detailing his experiences using Twitter at his library. John writes: A funny thing happened when I embedded the feed, other staff members felt left out, and a bunch (including myself) went and signed up for their own twitter accounts. Encouraged by their enthusiasm, I began to think a bit more. With staff often to busy to handle things themselves, and me having a basic understanding of the API, it occurred to me that I could actually make the library itself tweet on its own. Once that was working, I brain stormed some more, and decided to link twitter to our wordpress blog, a simple process. This is ingenious – especially the automated part that sends message to the library’s Twitter account! John continues: During the wait for all the updates to download, I added another twitter feature.
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