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Showing posts with label Unnecessary Shakespeare shout-out. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unnecessary Shakespeare shout-out. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

To tweet or not to tweet

Greetings readers!

I have been gradually dipping my toes into the great sea of Twitter over the last few weeks and again, despite my miserly old-school ways, have found it an interesting and useful tool for sharing ideas and information. I'm not going to lie, though, 140 characters is a real challenge for me, as someone more used to writing reams and reams at a time (you need only look at previous blog posts for this to be made apparent!)

Feeds du jour:

@waterstones, particularly interesting at the moment because of their 'the book that made me' project, which you can find and contribute to by using the hashtag #tbtmm

@GuardianBooks, news, reviews and author interviews. Recent threads include: why do some books give you a hangover?, recommendations for a great sci-fi book and a reading group.

@infolitgroup: CILIP's InfoLit group, who apparently had some very nice screen cloths to give away at their Annual Conference: https://twitter.com/infolitgroup/status/322621386717806592/photo/1

I haven't really tweeted much myself yet, I must admit that I don't think I have anything worth sharing. I could go on forever about the trials of timetabling and the "Game of [LCH] Keys" but i'm not sure there's really a world-wide market for this. Is anyone else 'tweeting' on a regular basis, if so, what do you tend to tweet about?

(On a totally unrelated-to-work note, 'Star Trek Into Darkness' is awesome, absolutely worth the £10 investment at the cinema. Though I do look back with fond rememberance on the days when you could get a ticket and actually have change from £10).

Until the next post, arrivederci!