1. Twitter & Social Tagging

2.  Twitter is a MicroBlog  140 Characters or less to say it…  Recently allowed photos to be shared  Very popular*  Officially 100 Million active users  500 Million registered accounts  All “Tweets” are being cataloged in the Library of Congress *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

3.  Combines Texting, Instant Messaging, Blogging  Short format keeps it simple and to the point  140 Characters  Breaking news- hours before it ends up on the tv.  Trending topics- popular by mentions (#topic)  Tagging goes social…We interact with our words

4.  Twitter not the whole future, but a large part of it  We are a busy people-  We need as much info in as little time as possible  Keep up with the world around us, or the Jones’

5.  Founded in 2006  Biz Stone & Evan Williams  Creators of Blogger.com  Jack Dorsey  Software Architect

6.  Simple, descriptive username  Not bob1234 or JaneSmith  Try KnittingGranny or GearheadBob  Talk first, follow later  Start with friends, expand slowly  Post consistently & it will come

7.  News  Business—info about your hobby/work  Helpful information/tips  Links to favorite sites, blog posts, photos  The day-to-day stuff… all about you!

8.  Trivial-  What you ate for lunch  What color shoes you are wearing  Politics  Religion  Sex

9.  Loads of famous and non-famous alike have Twitter accounts…  Just search for them in the search bubble…

10.  Way for people to find what you are talking about, e.g.  #library  #doctorwho  #Colts

11.  You can make reference to people  Give a shout-out, or say you were with other twitter users/people in general, e.g.  Hey @jonnygskills, I saw your rocketship in the back yard, nice!  @nflcolts, win one for a change!  They get a heads-up that someone mentioned them…They “see” the post.

12.  Become socially relevant  Go “Viral”  Searching for your @businessnamehere says it all…  Positive and negative feedback on the fly  “Live-tweeting” an event- rallys, Conferences, Conventions, community meetings…

13.  Mobile!  Focus changes from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?”  Twitter news network?

14.  Contact Jon–  574-223-1003  ref@fulco.lib.in.us ref@fulco.lib.in.us  @FCPLR (on Twitter, of course!)