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March 06, 2008
Twiter in Plain English
Another great explanation video from CommonCraft: Twitter in Plain English. Twitter seems to puzzle many people, micro-blogging, useless "lunch was good" updates, and so on - so this would be a great way to show you staff how exactly this tool works. Then follow it up by showing them how libraries are successfully using Twitter to do various tasks.
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Some people learn visually, first of all, and also some people may not understand some of the basic concepts needed to understand how Twitter works. For example, at the beginning of the FAQ you cite it says "When you send in a mobile text (SMS), Twitter sends it out to your group of friends and posts it to your Twitter page." If someone has no idea what "a mobile text (SMS)" is - they don't understand that it means a simple text message from your cell phone - then the rest of it is meaningless. I think we need to respect the different ways people learn, and provide them with multiple options. This is one option.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton-Jan (LiB) | April 2, 2008
why do we need a video to explain something that only takes a few words (http://twitter.com/faq). surely librarians, of all people, should value low bandwidth, cheap low tech explanations over high tech
Posted by: ezra s abrams | April 2, 2008
awesome video -- thanks for the link. The Common Craft videos are an excellent model for libraries -- we should have short, punchy, clear videos like that.
Posted by: Stephanie Willen Brown | March 7, 2008
