Hello Thing 4. While I wouldn’t say I’m a Twittaholic, I do prize Twitter – highly – for its ease and unsurpassed ability as a feed of whatever information I might be seeking from my network of interest. Here is me on Twitter. My Twitter account is a bit out of control at the moment, and I do know that I will need to explore a Twiiter organization/management tool such as HootSuite or TweetDeck, but currently I have engineered my account so that I draw news and tweets from folks in the communities of education, libraries, the arts, business, effective presentations, inspiration and motivation, and many others. I can honestly say that I’ve never once checked in with my Twitter feed and not come away with truly useful information. This is a recent post about my Personal Learning Network (PLN) strategy, Twitter features prominently. And the ability to crowdsource using hashtags is indeed incredible. (Has anyone tried using blekko as a search tool, which uses slashtags?)
RSS feeds I admit I use far less. I just can’t have that many sources of information, and have to make some decisions about what to pull and for better or worse I prefer feed aggregators such as Twitter or Scoop.itto bring news and articles of interest to me. I view my lack of RSS/Reader use as something of a failing, but the problem for me is that the one or two times a year I get inspired to revisit and reengineer my Google Reader, I seem to have an inability to exercise control and self restraint. I end up overstuffing my feeds like one of those supermarket contestants who has 3 minutes to load their rolling basket with as many items as possible — I seem to go crazy, design a feed that is simply unmanageable, in scope, volume, and the ability to manage. I do need to get more sophisticated and perhaps join RSSA (RSS’ers Anonymous)But I did truly appreciate the handy bundle of all the CPD23 blogs, and have added them to my Google Reader. By the way, here’s a link to a pretty helpful article: How to Easily Create & Share Feed Bundles In Google Reader…
Annie’s instructions were especially helpful, and this was a very intuitive and enjoyable process, though I just focused on videos at the moment, will soon go back through and add other content, as well as revisit evaluation of some of these initial storify items.
<< And may I make a special appeal to the cpd23 group here: I am personally interested in libraries that find creative (fun is good too) ways of solving problems and offering services and programs (lending programs included) to their users — if anyone here knows and has a moment to share a comment or a tweet about a library or libraries and/or articles or webpages I might look at in this regard, I would be most sincerely appreciative – thank you! >>
Lastly regarding Storify, I can see how this tool lends itself to use an analytical measurement tool, giving stats on page views and visits. Very cool.
Thanks cpd23 for introducing a new tool, for us all to add to our quivers of growing web 2.0 and social media tools!
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