Category Archives: twitter

Controlling twitter notifications to your phone

robinna/ March 14, 2011/ Technology, social media, question of the day, twitter, Blog posts/ 0 comments

Go to Settings>Mobile Text message notifications:Twitter will send alerts to your phone, depending on your settings. You can limit it to particular times (I would not want to receive alerts in the middle of the night), or particular types of messages. You can limit to only those you allow to send to send alerts via twitter (perhaps, your family, dearest

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Question of the day: Tweet from your mobile phone (or change your number)

robinna/ March 8, 2011/ Technology, question of the day, twitter, tutorials, Blog posts/ 0 comments

I know this info is available online, but it’s my question of the day, so here goes. 😉 Note> You can set it up twitter to use web or wifi if you have a smartphone; in that case, you may just want to use the appropriate Twitter app for your phone: Iphone; or Android (ton of choices). On your menu

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Twitter for librarians

robinna/ November 8, 2010/ software, social media, my projects, twitter/ 0 comments

Tools I use: To future/schedule tweets Future tweets Brizzly To post: Brizzly delicious to twitter (links) picnik (twitpic) to twitter (images) To manage followers/following TwitterKarma: see follows/unfollows and when they posted last (can be slow) Mytweeple: same as above with a little more info To manage my presence: Klout Twitterstatistics Librarians and library people I follow @libraryfuture [I follow more

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Archiving twitter — good idea or not?

robinna/ November 1, 2010/ twitter/ 0 comments

As many of you know, the Library of Congress acquired (was given) the Twitter archive beginning with 2006 (read more about that here). I think this is interesting but at the same time, it seems to go against the nature of twitter. Twitter has always been real time and if you are so inclined, you can sit and just watch

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Free! 1 Voice Many Channels> Blogging & Tweeting 4 Libraries (a robin & amy gig)

robinna/ September 24, 2010/ Libraries, social media, my projects, twitter, networking/ 0 comments

Join us – Free! from the fab @amywatts @georgiawebgurl One Voice, Many Channels: Blogging and Tweeting for LibrariesFreeRobin Fay and Amy WattsUniversity of GeorgiaDoes your library blog or tweet? Interested in getting started? Wondering what all the buzz is about? We’ll explore how libraries use Twitter and Blogger to share news, events, as well as a community building tool. If

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Life 2.0, Communication, time, and social media

robinna/ August 11, 2010/ social media, twitter/ 0 comments

Interesting thoughts on the changes and impacts of communication in a social media world: Human Math * If I talk to 100 people on twitter for 6 minutes each, that’s 10 hours. * If I respond personally to 120 of the 600 or so emails and contacts I get a day, that’s 2 hours. * If I call 10 people

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Reasons I unfollowed you in twitter — I don’t really care if you are a mayor in 4square

robinna/ July 8, 2010/ social media, semantic web, Design, my projects, twitter/ 0 comments

Well, this isn’t the post I was going to write, but I wandered over to twitter karma, which made me think a little about who I follow and who I don’t in twitter 😉 I use twitter to share my blog, push status updates to facebook, linkedin, and googlebuzz, as well as connect/network with others. I am not in a

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Twitter demographics for my account (hmm. )

robinna/ June 20, 2010/ social media, twitter/ 0 comments

So, I ran across tweet sentiments which attempts to analyze your posts for things like positivity and educational level. LOL I guess it counts emoticons 😉 I do use slang, especially when posting to twitter (sigh… character limits) but I think it’s funny that I’m somewhat flamboyant yet gender neutral. heh. How in the world do they come up with

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Teaching this month on…

robinna/ April 20, 2010/ social media, my projects, twitter/ 0 comments

April 19, 2pm; (Encore April 23 @ 10am): Get Blogging: Learn about blogging and microblogging (Twitter!) and get started! — w/ Amy Watts (part of the 10 Weeks to a Web2.0 U; Social media & Web 2.0 training program for UGA Libraries) I am kind of in love with my graphics at the moment. Cute and springy, aren’t they? April

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