 Hi, hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm Krista Burns at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Library Commission's weekly online event every Wednesday morning at 10 AM central time we do this. And we cover library commission activities, anything that may be of interest to librarians in the state, mixture of our staff, guest presenters, little mini tours, question and answer sessions, whatever we can come up with. This morning, we have Michael Sowers back with us, he was here three weeks ago. Doing a little introduction to Twitter session. And now we've got some more advanced type stuff, other things you can do with Twitter that he'll be going through with us this morning. So take it away. All right. So last time was all about Twitter, which is considering we're doing a second now more about Twitter. I guess we didn't cover everything about Twitter last time. Basically, the idea here is if you did see the first session, there'll be a little bit of overlap. I want to back up and cover a couple things real quick just to make sure kind of everybody's on the same level. And then we'll kind of move on. And kind of the basic assumptions, you've got the grasp of Twitter. You're hopefully using Twitter already. But what other services and what other things can you do to make, kind of maybe automate some things with Twitter, figure out who to follow, who maybe not to follow, that sort of thing. And I have a very specific list of sites and services I want to cover. And if we get through them in less than an hour, we get through them. And I can entertain questions. But it definitely won't take us more than the hour. So what I'm going to do here is I'm just going to go ahead and switch on over to our browser. I am using Firefox here. And just giving you a quick show here of the standard Twitter page with a background on it. One of the services I'll be talking about does involve backgrounds. The quick overview, I can type in what I'm doing here. It shows the recent posts of the people I follow below that. Over on the right hand side, it has my username, number of people I'm following, number of people who are following me, number of tweets that I've posted. I can do searching. I can send direct messages. I can mark favorites. These are all things that I discussed in the last presentation. So if you want to go back and view that recording, you are able to do that if you didn't attend that one already. Now, this is generally not how I use Twitter. I'm generally not here on this screen. It is a bit limiting, and especially when you're following over 400 people, it can be a little difficult to keep track of everything that's going on. So there are other interfaces you can use with Twitter. I have been known to use Twitter on my cell phone, either via text message or through an application called Tiny Twitter that I just discovered about a week ago. If you have an iPhone, there are iPhone applications for that, you can interface with Twitter, as I mentioned via text message. There's also, if you're more of a desktop-oriented person, there are packages you can download, such as Twirl would be one of them, and TweetDeck, which is a very popular one, which Christy uses at the moment. I use one that's a little similar to TweetDeck called TwitHive, and this is something I also covered in the last presentation, but I want to just take a few minutes to kind of look at it again here. The reason I'm liking TwitHive at this point is that it is web-based. So as long as I am at a computer with web access, I can get to this and I don't have to transfer any settings between computers. It's all remote access, so if I'm at home, if I'm on a laptop, if I'm at my desk at work, or I'm at this computer in our presentation room here at the commission, I can log into my account. You log into TwitHive just with your Twitter login, uses that to authenticate you. And the benefit to something like a TweetDeck or this is that you can now start sorting all of those people you follow into different categories, and you can have each column is kind of a subsection of all of the tweets that I receive and all of the people organizations I follow. So I have this first column here labeled Favorites. These are kind of the people that I know personally. I really want to keep track of them. They're also not local in this case, so I'm not sure Favorites is quite the right term, but that's how I started with it. My next column here I have is labeled At M Sours. These are all the mentions of me or replies that I get to, things that I've mentioned. So I had been mentioning some health issues in the family going on, so people have been responding to that this morning. I might post an article to Twitter that I've read and people might retweet it, so they'll give me credit. I'll see that what I'm saying is being passed along. That's kind of an ego search, but Twitter is kind of a conversation too, so that's like that. The next category I'm labeled Organizations and Famous People. So these are, I follow bookstores and publishers and software publishers, and here's Amazon Deals here from Ukong Deals. Clumsy Lovers is a band. I don't really know these people per se, but I want to follow them, hear what they're saying and go along with that. And then I can keep more columns going as I kind of scroll over to the right here. Then I have my Nebraska column. So this first one is from somebody over in Economic Development, 1011 News, Lincoln City Libraries, Nebraska Tourism. So, you know, kind of got that. Krista, my coworkers, friends here in Nebraska. I kind of put them in the Nebraska category. My next category is my best friend in Arizona, so I just follow her and what people are saying about her and the conversations that are going on there. I then have a Direct Messages category, so if people have sent me something very specifically to me, probably which I couldn't be showing out into the general public. I then have a one here called Public Library, which is a search that I've done so I can set up a column. So anytime somebody mentions Public Library on Twitter, I get a copy. Needless to say, this is way off to the right hand side. Notice I don't check this very often. And then I have this final category, which is all 446 people I'm following every single tweet that they do come right into this category. And that's all the way over to the right, which I check even the least, because there's some folks, you know, they follow me. They say some interesting things, but I really know them. I'm not sure, I'll follow them back. Notice I don't follow everybody back. That would be insane. And so, you know, I'll keep an eye on that. If somebody starts to get really interesting, I might move them over to my favorites or I discover they're in Nebraska. I might move them into my Nebraska category, something like that. And so from here, I can also post tweets. So I would just click New Update and giving another Twitter talk. Say hi. And I can send that off. I can send direct messages to particular people here. I can create a new channel. That's one of the columns that you see here on the screen. I can perform a search. I can turn refreshing on and off. This is something we're gonna talk about with another service where, you know, I really like for the next hour, I don't need Twitter bothering me. I could just say stop checking for new tweets. I'll turn that back on later. To category or to manipulate any one of these categories, let's say I wanted to add somebody to favorites. I would just click on favorites. It will give me a list here in a moment of everybody I'm following and then I can add them to a particular group. And in fact, I will do that real quick here because I've got orgs and famous people and I forgot that I started following the TV show Fringe. Oh, okay. So I've already added that to this category. I can then remove it from the category if I want. And just the other day I got the associate dean of admissions at UNL started following me so I thought I'd follow him back. That weren't real in Nebraska. That's what near in Nebraska is. I don't know why he picked that username but he has a bio. Stress, yeah, so I'm gonna throw this out here again. I mentioned this in the last presentation. If you start tweeting before you write your first post, write yourself a bio. I can't tell you how many times people will follow me and I'm gonna decide whether to follow you back based on your bio. And if the bio is blank. And we don't have a clue who you are because of that. Yeah, and your username is joesmo682. I'm not gonna follow you back. So make sure you write yourself a good bio. Now the bios can only be 160 characters long. So be specific, but say where you are, say what you do. It's really important. There's also an option to put a URL in there as well. So if you have a personal website or your work website, if you are tweeting as a library or something, put that in there. Put the library's website in there. And then we know, oh, this is the tweet, the Twitter account for so-and-so library. Touch of such library, right, exactly. Now keep in mind in most of the examples I'm giving here, I'm giving these examples as an individual. If you are tweeting on behalf of an organization and the rules might be a little different, we'll try to throw those in as we're going along. But I am using my own personal account as the example here. Okay, so the next slide I wanna show you, this is fun, I'm sure Krista can agree with this, that sometimes Twitter goes down. And in fact, Twitter, yeah, don't panic, okay. And in fact, yesterday Gmail went down and Twitter almost came down because everybody on Twitter was talking about how Gmail was down. I mean, it was completely nuts. So, but you might be wondering, is it you, is it your access to Twitter is down or is Twitter down completely? So there's a great site called istwitterdown.com. And if you go to istwitterdown.com, it will tell you yes or no. And just to be sure, I will refresh and it will still say no. So that means Twitter is not down, Twitter is working. If you are having a problem with Twitter, then it's at your end, it's not Twitter. So now if it says yes, that means don't panic, Twitter will be back. They're working on it. So yeah, they're working on it. Okay, so that's just kind of a fun one there. Now let's say you're surfing around and you find an interesting site. Like let's say ifindistwitterdown.com is interesting and I wanna tell all of my Twitter friends about istwitterdown.com. Well, kind of in your standard mode, what you would have to do is something like copy the URL. So we're gonna copy that and I'd have to go back here and I just found a great site and paste in the URL there and I would click update. Well, okay, not difficult, but not exactly the most convenient either. Well, one of the things I've done is because I'm using Firefox, I've added what's called Twitter bar. And this is also something I briefly mentioned in the last presentation. And if you look in my address bar all the way to the right and it's just to the left of the Google search box, I don't think you're seeing my mouse pointer there. You'll see a little T for Twitter. What this will allow you to do is actually write a Twitter post in your address bar. So I get to here and I find istwitterdown. I'm like, okay, that's great. So I'm going to just type here is Twitter down. Find out that and there's the URL. Now if I was to press enter and actually try to go to that address, but that isn't an address. So what I'm gonna do instead is I'm gonna click over here and it tells me I have 95 characters left for my post and it turns into a little plus sign. I'm gonna go ahead and click that and say posting to Twitter. Then I'll say post successful and it will take me back to the standard URL. If I now go back to Twitter and I bring up the list of things I have posted, there it is. It's already shortened to URL for me, which is one service Twitter provides and it has my text. So I'm almost, a lot of posts that I put up, a lot of things I tweet are web pages that I found online. So literally I will be surfing around, I'll find it, I'll type a couple of words at the beginning of the URL and I'll use Twitter bar and it'll just send it off. And then I don't have to start switching back and forth between things. It really makes posting to Twitter for me almost transparent. For a library, this would be a very good way to share. We're having story time. Go here for the schedule. Boom. And when you're on your story time page or new classes are available or we've got new books in the library and here's where you can find a link to them. A link to our catalog. You can use that for the same thing, just be on the page that you wanna share and start writing your little tweet up there in the top. Exactly. And that way too, you can't accidentally post the wrong URL. If you're on the URL for that page and you're looking at it, you're pretty much at the right URL. Okay, so now the next thing is Google Reader. I'm gonna go ahead and back up here a second. I've started using Google Reader in the last month as my feed reader. I subscribe to lots of RSS feeds. I don't wanna turn this into an RSS workshop but we're gonna mention it a little bit. And so, let's say I come in here and I pull up my 2.0 stuff and I say, oh, okay, here's an interesting article about identifying a website sentiment with context sense. And I kind of read through this article and I think, well, you know, this is something I wanna share. Well, now I've got a couple of options so far. I can actually click on this and we'll load up that webpage and then I can use Twitter bar to kind of paste the URL and title in and things like that. But what I can actually do because I'm using Google Reader, if I scroll down to the bottom of the article, you'll see you've got some options here. And for those of you that are familiar with Google Reader, you might be, you know, like, you wanna like it, you wanna share it with other people, things like that. But there's this wonderful little Send To option down in the bottom right of every article you read in Google Reader. And if I click on this, I'm gonna get a bunch of choices and you'll notice one of those choices is Twitter. Now, you have to turn this on first, right? So let me show you what it does and then I'll show you how to turn it on. I'm gonna say, well, this is the article I wanna tweet about. So okay, I just click on Send To and then Twitter and it's going to try to open a pop-up so I need to tell this browser that it's allowed to do so and I will try that again. And it will open up a new tab for me and notice it takes me to my Twitter account. If I wasn't logged in already, it would ask me to. And it has copied the title of that article right there and it's already given me a shortened URL for it right there. I can type in whatever else I want. I click Update and off my tweet goes. So I can literally post to Twitter right from within Google Reader instead of having to load up a separate page and then even use something maybe like a tweet bar. Now, how do you turn that on? Assuming you have a Google Reader account, you go into Google Reader Settings which is up here in the upper right and we wait for that to load. And we wait for it to load more, there we go. And then Under Settings for Google Reader all the way to the right here up at the top is Send To. We click on Send To and then Firefox says Not Responding. Uh oh, I've got all this stuff pre-loaded. Let's see if we can get it to crash. Well, what I'll try to talk about while we're waiting for Firefox to continue to work is on the Send To screen, it will give you a list of pre-configured options which you turn on and off via checkbox. And one of those options is Twitter. So you just check Twitter, you want that available on your Send To and it will work for you at this point. There are also ways you can add your own and add some more and write some custom code and things like that. Twitter is one of the ones there. I hope you can please don't crash. I'm doing that. What I see is that the browser is locked. I'll try to close. And give me one sec here, folks. We will run it again and hopefully, there's my outline, if you're interested. And hopefully all of these tabs will reload. Yes, they will. Thank you very much. And I'm gonna close the ones that we have already used so as to maybe simplify the overkill of this. Okay, so we're back where we were. Okay. So, okay, we'll give it a shot. Yeah, we'll see if we can bring up settings and Send To, there we go. See, now it works. And if you look at that list, I have a blogger account, so I've turned on blogger. I have a delicious account, so I've turned on delicious. I have a ticket account. You can send it to Facebook, friend feed, all sorts of these. But one of them, as you can see down at the bottom of the list is Twitter. And there goes Firefox crashing again. It was like Google Reader. There is probably at least one person on this listening to me right now who has got a big smile on their face. And I won't say who that is. So let's try that one more time. And let's not actually go there again. And in Firefox's defense, I use it every day, all the time, and go to that screen quite regularly and it's never crashed on me before. This is, well, this is embarrassing. Okay, let's restore those up. Yes, I'm gonna close Google Reader. Exactly. Okay. Yeah, we can do that. Haven't seen any questions come through. Oh, wait a minute, Susie says she's here and someone says it's okay. Thank you. I appreciate that, Laura. Do you have any questions that any of the stuff we've shown already? All right, let's go ahead and move on. We're gonna take it kind of up a notch here in the technology. And this is kind of another way to post. And this can work in several situations. It uses this service called Twitter Feed. And by the way, almost all these services I'm talking about today, there's like a dozen services that do each of the things I'm talking about. I'm just showing you the ones I use. I'm not necessarily saying they're the best. It's just they're the ones I'm most familiar with and I'm most comfortable with. For example, I write a blog. And so whenever I write a blog post, I want a tweet to show up in my Twitter account saying, hey, I've written a blog post. Here's the title and here is a link to it. Here at the commission, we have a commission Twitter account called NLC News. And whenever we post an announcement or whenever we post a blog post, theoretically whenever we posted a photo to Flickr or we put up a recording on BlipTV, we can set all this up so that whenever we do it one place, it automatically shows up on Twitter. And this is done via RSS. So let me set up a quick example here. I'm gonna go ahead and sign into my account. And this is where Hope Michael remembers his password. Log in. And we don't. Okay, I'm actually gonna try something a little different here using something called open ID, which might be the way I created this login originally. So give me one second here. Yeah, I know what I'm pretty sure it was this one. See, and of course I have completely forgotten my password. I'm gonna one last try. Yay, here we go. See, if you get a method for picking your passwords, you can usually guess it eventually. Why is this new change to biometrics? Biometrics, there you go. Okay, so this should be sending us back to Twitter feed. It says waiting for it, so, but we're not actually, oh, there it goes. Okay, so what's going on here is that I have set a few things up. And this is my account sending off from different services to Twitter. So what I've done here is, you'll notice I have here Travel Librarian, Last FM, my Facebook status, dig, itart. There's several ones I've set up here, but we'll just keep it nice and simple with Travel Librarian.info. That's my blog. So what I have done is I have gone into my Twitter feed account. I have told it my login and password for my Twitter account. And then I've given it the URL of the RSS feed for my blog. And what it will do is it says here, updating every half hour, every half hour, it will check to see if there's any new content on my blog coming from the RSS feed. And if it finds anything, it will then create a tweet of the title and the URL of that blog post and send it to my Twitter account. So it's kind of automated. So it's taking other sources and sending it through to Twitter so that people who follow me on Twitter know I wrote a new blog post. This is also how I've set up my Facebook status. So if for some reason, I'm not a big Facebook user, for some reason I write a status update on Facebook, it also shows up as a tweet. If I favor a piece of music on Last FM, it sends it out as a tweet. If I do something on Dig, it sends it out on a tweet. So you can kind of automate this process. So if your library has a blog, you can literally set up a Twitter account that just tweets every time you write a new blog post. You don't necessarily have to write new content for Twitter. Now, recommend it, more content is better. And especially if you only write a new blog post once a week, people are probably gonna want more than once a week tweets, but it is possible to do. And literally all you need to do is you click on Create a New Feed and you've already set up your Twitter access and you say Create a New Feed to Twitter. You can also send it to a couple other services. What is the name of the feed? What is the RSS address of the feed? And then the advanced settings or things like how often do you want it to check for new content? Very simple to do. So as long as you've got RSS, you can send it on off. Any questions on that one? That one is a little more complex, I would say. But basically, take RSS and off it goes, no, cool. And your library has a Facebook page. So Laura, you could use Twitter feed. You're gonna have to find the RSS feed of your Facebook status and you can feed that back through the Twitter. And basically you're just duplicating everything. But it'll get you started. Yeah, it's good for some people who are wondering, I've got this Twitter account now, what am I gonna do with it? Or, oh God, we've gotta have somebody in charge of putting things out all the time. Well, you don't necessarily. If you have things like you're already doing a blog, doing other things that do have RSS, just get them set up with Twitter feed and then you're already sending content that's your library related out to your Twitter feeds. You've already got stuff going out to it automatically there. It's a good start. Yeah, now I don't specifically remember how to find the RSS feed of your Facebook status, but I know it's doable because I've done it. It's in there somewhere. Okay, so let's try the next service. I was mentioning a little earlier about the, maybe you're getting a little too much. This is for when you're following people. And let's say you've got that one or two followers that are posting something every 10 minutes. And you don't wanna unfollow them because you really do find them pretty good. But really, you gotta get some work done for the next two hours or day. Just this person's driving in a little months. What people at event? Or yeah, if so and so is at a conference that you have absolutely no interest in, that's a great example. I love that. You can just, everything for the next five days while they're on their trip, just I don't wanna hear about it. If they're tweeting about every session they went to of people they met, but if it's not something you're interested in, you can maybe something. Or someone is at an event that you're not interested in. Someone's going to a concert for a band that you don't care about. And they was talking about, oh, did this song, did that song? Oh my God. And you're like, I get it. Right. You know, Krista might snooze me while I'm on my honeymoon for the next two weeks. I mean, that's not that I plan on tweeting much from. Anyways, too much information. So basically, you've got a twitter snooze.com. You fill in your twitter username and password. You put in the username of the person you want to snooze for how long? How many days? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 10, 15 or 30. You can turn them off for a month. You can announce snooze on twitter. Now, I don't believe, and I haven't used this service in a while, I don't believe it says I'm snoozing Krista for the next month. I think it's just saying, hey, I'm using twitter snooze. It's basically, you're posting an advertisement for their service, okay? And then you click snooze and you don't see any of their posts for that number of days, but you haven't unfollowed them. Basically, this service just blocks them for you. And it's nice that it's automatic. You don't have to go back and unsnooze them. It just does it for the number of days you said and then they're back. Exactly. So, all right. Next service. We're kind of getting into the following people and who do you want to follow? Okay, then we have here TweetBlocker. Now, there's a couple of services like this and I don't want to say that they're necessarily, you don't necessarily want to follow them 100%. I'll give you an example here, but let's go ahead. I'm going to log in here. I do have an account for TweetBlocker. And basically, what this is, is you're going to see this for a while. TweetBlocker is basically using something called OAuth. Don't worry about what it actually stands for, but you'll see it up in the address bar. You'll see OA, U-A-T-H, OAuth. It's allowing you to log in to this, give this service access to your Twitter account without actually giving them your Twitter username and password, okay? It's logging in to Twitter and telling Twitter it's okay for this other service to have access to your account temporarily. This is actually really good way for a service. Some services, you have to give them your username and password. This is the preferred method. You pretty much rest assured that nobody's going to get a hold of your username and password, you do it this way. So I'm just going to go ahead and say, yep, please give them access. And what this service is going to do is it's going to look through all of the people I follow or are following me and it's loading them up here. I'm going to let that run in background because I haven't run it in a while so I've got a bunch of new followers it needs to check out. I'm going to let that run and it's going to grade them, okay? Now, I am by no means picking on anybody here. I have no control over these ratings, but what it's going to do is it's going to give them a score on kind of a one to a hundred. And it's going to look at several factors I'll get to in a moment. And so let's say here that visit Mesa is following me and I'm going, well, you know, do I really want to follow them back or are they a spammer? Do I want them following me? Do I even want them associated with my account? Well, according to this, they're saying they get a perfect score of a hundred and they get an A plus grade. So probably even if you don't want to follow them back, there's probably no problem with them following you. Now, again, I don't want to pick on anybody here. I know some of these people personally, but let's see here we have the banning library only gets a 45, they're getting a D. Okay, well, what does that mean? Well, I can click on details here and it's saying, well, they've been around for a long time but they don't have a really balanced ratio between friends and followers and they're not posting very often, they're not very active. That says this is an active user. Oh, this is an active user. Okay, but they're getting the D here, I think, because does not have an account balanced ratio of friends and followers. So in other words, maybe they've got a lot of followers but they're not following anybody back. Okay, that's probably not that great. I wonder if I can find an F. Oh, here's some Fs. Oh, it does that when you reload. Oh, okay, I got a whole bunch of new ones here. So let's pick kids and sleds. I have no idea who kids and sleds is. We'll go to details. Okay, user has been around for a long time, the user does not have balance, the user doesn't seem to be active. So I'm not saying it's a piece of information for you to decide, that's all. Even I haven't gone through and blocked everybody who's got an F. Because maybe they just started up, maybe they're just, you know. This is gonna be a place to start if you are trying to weed through, if you've got a lot and you're wondering who are all these people, it gives you something to start with. Then what you can do is go to their accounts and see, well, what do they have they actually said, or, oh, is this my cousin and I really should just leave it alone. Right, and well, okay, and here's an example of an F. If I actually hover over their account here, we'll see the username, the number of people following, and this is somebody who actually took a Twitter class of mine. And probably that's when they signed up. They signed up and they posted two whole tweets back on July 30th and I haven't done anything since. Well, you know what? Testing it out because they were just learning about it. Right, you know what, I'll let them follow me. Because maybe they just wanna read what I'm posting and they don't wanna participate any further, that's okay. They took a class of mine, I would consider it maybe rude if I blocked them. You know, maybe next week they'll pick up. So, you know, you can do that. And you'll notice my grade here is an A plus. All right, yeah, you take it for what it's worth. Another thing you can do is let's say somebody has signed up and you're wondering when did you or that person sign up for Twitter? How long have they been around? Well, let's see here. I can type in my username and I joined on the 9th of March, 2007. And then I can actually tweet that I, I joined Twitter 98 days ago. So I've just posted a little ad for their service too. So that was, let me back up here, that was when did you join Twitter.com? So, nice and simple. It's just a way to find out. Oh, I wonder, okay, so you're, see, Burns, and we'll click find out. And August 7th, yeah, yeah, we'll, several months later. What is that picture? Is that you? No. This is the wrong burns. That's not me. Are you, see Jay Burns? There we go. Yay. So just a month later. Month and a half, so six weeks. So, you know, there you go. So again, you just find out. It's another piece of information about who's following you and who you're following. Now then you can get a little more interesting and that is do two of your friends follow each other? So I can say, well, you know, I'm wondering, does Krista follow me? You know, because if she doesn't, I might have to be a little upset. So I'm gonna go ahead and check this and this is called doesfollow.com and yep, yep, she follows me, so that's good. Okay, and then, hey, you know, wonder if I, M Sowers is following CJ Burns? And we click on that and yep, we also do that. And again, we can Twitter this result and give them a little advertisement. So, you know, if you're wondering if somebody is following someone else, because sometimes the Twitter service itself, you start following hundreds of people. You get 1,000 people following you. It's hard to manipulate all that. Exactly, that information is in there, but it's really difficult and it gives it to you like a page at a time. You know, this is just a quick way to kind of check and find out. They have a great API. This is why all these third party services can work. Then we have a service called Overlapper and we can find out what, you know, are these people kind of tweeting the same things? Are they retweeting each other? So, let's check again. Is Chris does make any pick here? And let's see if we got any overlap between our two accounts. And, you know, maybe some, yeah. So, we have a 178 shared followers. So, 178 people both follow both of us. We follow 170 of the same people. And so, it's actually, I take it back, it's not actually the content, it's the followers. So, you know, we follow a lot of the same people and that's okay too. So again, just, you know, interesting information you can pull out of this service. All right, got a couple more I wanna talk about. Christine, question or comment? No, okay. And let's just check the questions here real quick. Well, I probably have an F because I don't use my Twitter much. Yeah, you might, Laura, but that's okay. Like I said, you know, an F is not necessarily a reason I'm gonna unfollow you. You know, if I know you, yeah, I'll give you a little more. I've got you some slack. And you've written a good bio and you've put up a picture of yourself. That's another key, yes, exactly. Okay, flicker my background. I have not played with this before so we're gonna actually try this live. Okay, I'm getting a little tired of the background. Is currently unavailable, oh, darn. Okay, well, you get the point. You have a flicker account, you find a photo that you like, you use this service, you point it to the photo, you point it to your flicker account and then it becomes the background image on your flicker home, excuse me, on your Twitter home page. And it's down, it tiles it, yeah. You wanna make sure it's a nice big picture to reduce tiling, that sort of thing. But see, I was gonna do this live. I was gonna go find a great photo and, oh well. Let's see what that saw horse is saying. There's just something cool to that. You can do a lot of, and. Well, it's out of your city and they don't really say anything about this. But this is something good to note as just in general, you'll see lots of companies or organizations or libraries or whatever saying, follow us on Twitter or keep track of what we're doing here. I noticed Twitter feed had one too. Follow us, people that create these apps or programs will have an account as well and so that you can keep track of what's going on. Twitter status just for, in general, has an account. So it'll definitely jump over and see who created this, if you wanna keep track of what else they're doing or what they're doing with this or if it's the Twitter feed one. It was specifically for that application so you can keep up to date on any changes they make through enhancements, updates, is it now, that kind of thing. So there's some programs that they're, apps that you're really into. Definitely do those, follow them. No, now the next one is this is Twitter stats. Yeah, no, or tweet stats. And I'm gonna go ahead and graph me here. Now hopefully this will work relatively quickly. Okay, and it says this will take a while. So you know what we're gonna do? Oh, this is 0%, ooh, I've written like 9,000 tweets. This might take a minute. We'll come back to this one. Krista, make sure I come back to that. We'll let this run in the background and hopefully it'll give us a base guide, yeah. Okay, now here's the next thing. Back up my tweets. There's several services for this one. I'm not gonna go into too much detail here. But you know, you put all this content up on Twitter and there's two things you wanna consider. One, Twitter will only actually show you, won't actually show you everything you've ever posted. I think it's something like it will only show you 3,200 tweets as it says right up here. Thank you, somebody's actually reading the screen. So I've posted over 9,000. How do I, you know, I can't just keep going. And first of all, who would wanna do like 40 at a time page by page looking at the last 9,000 or even 3,200 tweets? Second of all, what if Twitter blew up tomorrow? All of that content that you put on there, all of those links that you posted, all of that interesting stuff would be gone. So what you can do is with back up my tweets, sign up for an account, give it access to your account and it will actually download all of your tweets for you and periodically make backups. So the information is there. Twitter has all your tweets, but they don't let you see. Yes, Twitter has all of your tweets. But yeah, so I'm using the free here. So I'm trying to log into my account and that's gonna allow that. I've already done this, okay. And this service will also, by the way, back up pictures from Flickr and your blog and your mail and you can pay for a service and whatever. I'm just talking about the backup my tweets and the free version of the account. That's kind of all we're doing here. And I already logged in. Oh, here we go. I hit the wrong log here. I'm kind of guessing at my password again. No. Yeah, I knew I should have logged this all in in advance, but I didn't. We're keeping it real. Yeah, there we go, okay. So it has actually backed up only 3700 at the moment. Well, I think I need to run a backup again pretty darn soon, but then I can now download this file in HTML, JSON, or XML format. Really, I don't worry about the different formats, but XML will import nicely into Excel if you wanna pull it into Excel. JSON, actually not 100% sure what that's used for. I've heard of it before, or HTML, and you can basically download a webpage with all of your tweets. So it's just a way to back up your content. Okay, last one I have to show you here is something I literally discovered last week. So I have only played with this a little bit. It's called Social Oomph. And this is a service that you probably wouldn't use as an individual, but you would use as an organization. Okay, it does a lot of things here. And I'm gonna log into this. I am 99.9% sure I know my password. Cause I signed up for it on Monday. Yay. And this is another service that does a lot of things. It also can cost you money if you want to. I'm just looking at the free services and I'm just looking at the things related to Twitter. And what you can do is several things. One of the main things you can do is you can do what are called scheduled tweets. So you can say, okay, at eight o'clock on Monday morning, this is the tweet I want to go out. So you can write it in here, say Monday morning, 5 a.m., please post this to my Twitter account and off it goes. So if you've got things where you know you want to make very specific announcements at certain times, you can schedule them in advance. And I think that can be a really useful service for some organizations. If you know what the next month's worth of events are at your library, sit down, write all those tweets and have them all go out 24 hours before the event instead of having to worry about, okay, what's going on tomorrow? What tweets do I need to write today? Sit down, write them all. A few other things you can do here. And remember, this is really new. So I'm still learning where everything is. Tweets, DMs, followers, okay. You can do vetting in here. So you can actually set this up so that if somebody follows you, this service actually blocks them until you approve them, which I find very interesting. Although maybe as a public library, as a library, you want to just accept everybody, but if you don't want to accept the spammers, you might want to approve everybody. It's like approving comments in a blog. You can have this, I'm going to talk about a few of the other things because I don't remember where all the links are. If somebody follows you, or let's say somebody follows me, I have to decide whether I want to follow them back and then I have to actually go to their page on Twitter and say, yes, I want to follow them back. You can use this service to automatically follow back anybody who follows you. And you can set it up so that when it automatically follows that person back, it posts a message to them saying, hey, thanks for following me. I mean, you can really kind of automate this process. If you use Twitter a lot, you'll notice sometimes with the organizations, if you follow them, like within five minutes, they follow you back. They might be using a service like this that does that. So they don't have somebody sitting there going, okay, I have a new follower, I got to follow them back and write them a message. Okay, I have a new follower, I got to follow them back and I got to write them a message. This can kind of automate that process. That's a really good marketing thing for you as a library that your users are seeing you respond to them, so quickly, whether it's you doing it personally a lot or having a service to it, it shows them we're paying attention, we know you're out there and it gives them a little warm fuzzy feeling. Yep. So this is kind of the, like I said, I found out about this last week, I set it up on Monday and I haven't really used it. I've just kind of played with it a little bit, but it's got some definite possibilities if you're looking to schedule tweets, you have to approve people following you and or want to automatically follow people back and or automatically send them a message thanking them for following you, which can be a really handy thing to do. Now, you don't want to over automate, however, you really want to keep it personal, you don't want just a robot following everybody back over and over again. So it's got some possibilities in there and check the questions. No additional questions, okay. Let me go back to tweet stats here. Oh, good, it's done. All right, so it went through and it's just giving me a lot of information. You'll notice, you know, how many tweets I posted per month, okay. Notice I was really busy last month. Wow, look at that. I mean, 502 posts in the month. When, during the day and on what days? So it looks like I tend to tweet more in the morning than I do in the afternoon. Now, just to keep you, I work basically from seven to four. So this kind of notice is pretty much just kind of cuts off at four o'clock. I don't, you know, I don't tweet a lot on the weekends, but you know, I have been known to do so. And then, you know, I seem to tweet mostly on Tuesdays. I, I, I'm giving, huh? Yeah, exactly. Again, here's aggregate hourly tweets. So again, you know, notice around lunchtime it tends to kind of take a little nosedive there and in the evenings. And you know, I don't, for some reason, I guess I tweeted once at four o'clock in the morning. I don't recall doing that, but okay. These are the people who most or I most reply to. So I send a lot of messages to my friend Laura, a lot of to Karen, Jason Griffey. FuelFrog is something I mentioned in my previous presentation, which allows me to track my gas usage. And look at that, Krista Burns. Yay, I've sent you 15. And then, you know, what interfaces am I using to post? So notice that Twitter bar, I post most from Twitter bar. Twirl, I don't actually use much anymore. So that will slowly move down. I didn't follow Twitter's tweet hive. Twithive.com, yep, right here. So I've posted 350 now. I've only been using Twit Hive for about a month or two. So, you know, it's a, so I can see what software I'm using and who do I retweet the most often? So, you know, who do I follow that I repost their content? So actually, you know, this is, I think this is even more interesting the last time I looked at it. They've added some stuff and it's very colorful. And you know what, I like this so much, I'm gonna Twitter about it. I'm gonna post a tweet, checking out my tweets. That's okay. So there we go. So actually, we're about five minutes short of our hour that actually worked out pretty darn well. Does anybody have any questions or comments about either anything I covered? Oh, and notice, Kitch Queen here is checking out her. When did you join Twitter? So somebody saw that I did that. So they went to check theirs out. It's kind of cool. Or Twitter in general. If you've got a question, feel free to either, we can somehow, I think we can turn on your mic, but actually I'm not sure anybody has a mic. Let me check the software here. We can unmute you if necessary. Or you can just post a question in the Q&A section in the go to webinar bar. All of these URLs that you went to are gonna be in your delicious. Yep, I will bring up that URL right now. It's the same URL at the last presentation. Yeah, when I post up the recording of this, we'll have a link to this as well. Is it, yeah. But it is delicious.com slash travellibrary and slash Twitter. And there is way more stuff in here that there's 252 different bookmarks in here. So way more than I covered. I'll just quickly mention this tweet from below and tweet from above. Somebody has come up with a system to post to Twitter anonymously. Yeah, people are like, oh, I don't know. You gotta own what you say. So you might wanna do that. So yeah. This one here called tweetlater.com, this is actually social oomph. They, for some reason, yeah, if you click on tweetlater.com, it takes you to social oomph. Are they possibly thinking of expanding to other things besides Twitter? I believe so. That's probably why. Yeah, I think what they've done is they've bought a bunch of different URLs and they all forward into the social oomph service. So the one at the top there is another one I found, license plate tweets. This is how you can express your road rage on Twitter by saying, hey driver, with license plate, X, Y, Z, one, two, three, you learn how to use your signal, you idiot. I need that. So yeah. And then you can follow and read what they say. So, okay. Don't tweet and drive. Yes, please pull over and drive. Don't do that. And yeah, we're trying to click to unmute. Okay. Laura, we're seeing you have a question. I have unmuted you. Do you have a question? Might be from there. No, okay. Now those are actually quite much up there, the last one we looked at. Oh, we didn't clear them? We didn't clear them, yeah. And Susie, do you have a question? Okay. We'll take that as a no. Yeah, we're using slightly different software this time. We've been using GoToMeeting. We're now trying to go to webinar, which a lot of us host like 1,000 people at a time. So tell all your friends. No longer restricted. Yeah, no longer restricted to 15 people, but the interface is just a little different. So we're still getting the hang of it here, but it seems to be working well for us. And let's see, question came through. No, this is a lot to take it. I know it is. Susie, I don't know if you attended the one from a couple of weeks ago. I really recommend if you haven't, you watch that one first. And play with Twitter a little bit, get used to just the basic interface, the web interface first, get the hang of it, do some searches, follow some people. Follow us. Follow us. Yeah, please, follow the commission, follow either of us in general, M. Sowers or C.J. Burns. Then worry about kind of the stuff we talked about today. I mean, this is, yeah, it is a lot. But this is just kind of to give you a taste of the kind of things that are out there, that all these different ways that it's not just get Twitter and that's it, that there's lots of things you can do with it. There's lots of apps being written, lots of things, products that other places are coming up with that'll help you use it more efficiently or differently or better. Yep, and in fact, I'll just bring this up. This is a webpage of somebody tracking libraries that have Twitter accounts. So if you're looking for, you know, what other libraries are doing, here's a couple hundred of them. Anything just updated, I think it's in today. Was it just updated today? Updated 9-1, so that would be yesterday, actually close enough. Oh, yeah. So, you know, find, find a service that is, I think NLC staff has a question. Oh, what questions are you answering? Oh, that's right, you can't, you guys can't see questions, I apologize. Basically, Susie just said that this is a lot to take in. So that was it. And Laura had commented earlier that she probably has an F when we were looking at the Twitter grades. So, yes, thank you for that reminder, NLC staff. So I'm done. Krista, when you wrap up, I don't see any other questions coming in. Yeah, nobody else has anything else, it's great. Thank you very much. Oh, Susie said she did participate in the first one. We'll find it helpful to review, definitely. Okay. If you are going to recommend five to a patron who like me wants to start getting involved in using Twitter and accompanying resources, what would you suggest? What the talk? Recommend, just to clarify, recommend five people to follow or five services to use? Not exactly five what, I guess is my question. If you could clarify that, I would appreciate it. I would recommend you follow me. I mean, and I'm not being, mainly because I post a lot of interesting stuff I find online that I think librarians would be interested in. So, yes, I do post best services for management and or fun. Oh, wow. I like Twit Hive. I mean, I really do, I'm getting the hang of it and I like the fact that I can access it from anywhere. Now, if you're really pretty much just going to do all your tweeting from your desk and you're not going to use multiple computers, Tweet Deck is a wonderful piece of software. I just like the mobility. Right, it's very similar to Tweet. Tweet Hive, but it's an application software you download and install. It's the same thing with the columns. Being able to add people to them. Yeah, and then I guess the Twitter feed, if you've got content already, whether that be Facebook status updates or blog posts, something like that, I think Twitter feed would be a great service to get that content into your Twitter account. But again, I want to stress, I'm not giving you five. I think I'm going to stop there too, because you really want to be comfortable with how Twitter works and kind of find your voice before you do it. Create an account just for yourself. Follow people like us, follow Nebraska Tourism. I met the woman two weeks ago who runs that. There's a lot of Nebraska stuff online. I'm working on a blog post about Nebraska stuff on Twitter. And just have fun with it before you say, okay, now I'm going to tweet on behalf of the library. Here's the library. Practice those yourself first. Figure out how it gets, how it used, what kind of things rather that you're interested in, like Nebraska things, or if you have a certain interest. You can search Twitter for accounts on certain topics and things. Anyone that has Nebraska in their location or mentions Nebraska. And you can see, okay, all these people, these are these Nebraska ones, they'll follow them. And there's the State Fair Twitters actually has an account. Oh, okay. Start out with a personal one first before you decide to become your library as its own account. And it might be a good way to just get started, yeah. Thank you. But you do have favorites. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah, I... Yeah. Yeah, I'll stop. And you'll see, it probably is, if you look through, this is my delicious account too. Different services come up and become your new favorite. If you go looking back through someone's delicious links on a topic, you'll see older things they've favorited like a year ago and then a similar service that they favorited a month ago and now that's the one you're using. What are you doing? That's me. You're public. Yes, I am. So you may see how things change over time and new services come up and people change what they're using. Everybody, there's always new developers coming out and new people programming things that it's always in, it's very fluid. Yes. Yes. Very good. All right, I think we should wrap it up. We're here about 11.03 by our clock. Thank you very much for attending this week. Next week, we will have a session that we're doing on using Moodle for running online classes that the commission has been doing. So you can join us here next week. Sometime when the next day or two, this session will be up as a recording so you can watch that as well. Watch and listen to that. Thank you very much. Thanks, bye. Bye-bye.