1. Effective Use of the
Twitterverse
for Professional Development
Alexandra Janvey
@Alliebrwneyez
Library 2.013 Conference
October 19, 2013
Monika Talaroc
@monikatalaroc

2. Agenda
PART ONE
Twitter for PD | Polishing your Profile | Finding Folks to Follow
PART TWO
Hashtag Bootcamp | Twitter Lists | Tools for Tweeting

3. What is Twitter?

4. #baby breakfast pic.twitter.com/cuteBABY25z

6. Asking for #Advice

7. Crowdsourcing #resources

8. Conference #Backchannel

9. Need more reasons to use Twitter?
 Learn from thought leaders
❖ Track trends in your field or subfield
❖ Post (or find!) a job
❖ Break up a tough workday with a bit ‘o silliness

10. Use a professional picture or avatar

11. Choose a handle that is as short as
possible

12. Fill out your bio to let people know what
you’re likely to tweet about

13. Let people know how to connect
with you beyond Twitter

16. Finding Folks to Follow

18. Agenda

19. Anatomy of a Tweet
Tweeters
name
Avatar
Handle or
username
Tweet
Text
Mention
of other
users
URL
Hashtag

20. Understanding #Hashtags

21. #Lib2013

22. General #Hashtag Tips
 Increases chances of tweets getting seen
❖ Avoid “hashtag pollution”
❖ Don’t use punctuation or spaces { ? , . ; ! ‘ }
It’ssofluffy
#it
❖ Hashtags are not case sensitive
#LIBRARYSCHOOL #libraryschool

23. Twitter Chats

25. Twitter Lists

27. Time-Saving Twitter Tools

28. Questions?

29. Thanks for listening!
Alexandra Janvey
Library Assistant, Long Island University
@Alliebrwneyez
Alexandra.Janvey@liu.edu
Monika Talaroc
Archivist, Honolulu Museum of Art
@monikatalaroc
about.me/monikatalaroc