Session Information

The TOTS session on Microblogging will be held on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 from 1-3 pm in the Dodson Room in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Speakers

• Lindsay Ure, David Lam Management Research Library - Welcome and Introduction to Microblogging - presentation slides.
• Dan Hooker, SLAIS -  Twitter as a networking and information gathering tool - presentation slides
• Allan Cho, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre - Twitter tools (aggregators, timing tweets, and statistics) - presentation slides.
• Lorne Madgett, eResources Team, Technical Services - use of Twitter with UBC Library eResources blog
• Rod MacFarland, Library Systems & Information Technology - Twitter-bot for new materials at UBC Library
• Eugene Barsky, Science and Engineering - Decision to stop using Twitter
• Katherine Miller, Woodward Library - Yammer - presentation slides.

Microblogging Tools

Please feel free to add or suggest others!

• Twitter

Twitter in Plain English (Lee LeFever. Commoncraft. May 2007.)

• Yammer (powerpoint slides click here)
• Wikipedia list of other microbloging tools

Further Reading

Educause:

•  7 Things You Should Know About Microblogging (July 2009)
• 7 Things You Should Know About Twitter (July 2009)

Pew Internet & American Life Project. Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009

Articles:

Click here for articles on microblogging (including one by Dean Giustini from UBC Library)

Click here  for recent articles on microblogs in the LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text) database 

Click here for articles on Yammer and enterprise microblogging