1st month's assignment

I have not been able to get any responses from those who have tweeted or posted regarding our school. I have had responses from those with whom I have shared information discovered from searching tweets and news postings. It is another useful way to gather information that is being sought and to stay alert to what others are saying on the Web about our institution. Definitely can be a nice supplement to surveys and other methods of gathering data from users on how to improve services and track usage.

I have noticed on some blogs and news sites, they offer a number of methods (including newer 2.0 ways) for informing others about the content of the blog/news article. Our library consortium is beginning to examine where we should go with regard to a new ILS and OPAC. I think having the capability to tweet, digg, email, or whatever about information found in the catalog as well as post comments is something that should be available to our library users. I can envision some professors (the more tech-savvy probably) using such features to inform their students of resources that may be essential for an upcoming paper or project. I guess we will have to stay tuned for these developments.

Tweets about my school

I have to say tracking tweets related to my library's school is rather fascinating. I have passed this onto our Admissions department, because it is a handy way to see what some are saying about the school. A teacher tweeted proudly that one of her students received a scholarship to Grace University. Pretty cool!

RSS feeds

I love RSS feeds. I have a long list of blogs and other sites that I track in the Feeds reader built into IE. I keep it set up to the left of my browser window, so I can stay up to date on a variety of topics. I often will pass news and other information along to people, such as faculty here at Grace University to whom it may interest. I have not yet used the news alerts and such as we are working on in this lesson before to track the library or school. I chose to follow Grace University in most instances because we are a small school and I was not getting any results in my initial searches. So I am tracking my library's community. I have already encountered a quote by one of our professors in the Lincoln Journal Star, as well as some tweets related to our school, including one by a prospective student. I will post on the results of my responses and all later.