Presentation slides from April 29, 2013 Atkins Library's Professional Activities Committee workshop at UNC Charlotte

1. Twitter as
Professional
Development
Presented by Professional Activities Committee

2. Why use twitter?
 Networking
 Promotion of the library and your work
 Keeping up with news/trends
 Raise issues/start conversations
 Communicate with vendors
 Keep up with the university and your peers

3. Networking
 Building your network is beneficial to your own
career, and to the reputation of the library
 Building your network on Twitter is easy
 Follow those that interest you – they may follow
you back
 Follow those you work with at the university to
keep in touch
 Use hash-tags to build a following

4. Promotion
 Promote your work, accomplishments, etc.
 Promote the work of your colleagues and friends
 Promote the work of the library and the university

5. Keeping up
 Learn about opportunities – conferences,
workshops, calls for chapters, articles,
presentations, etc.
 News travels fast through Twitter and will reach
you before it hits a magazine, listserv or other
traditional source

6. Start conversations
 Re-tweet posts to start a conversation
 Post questions to your followers and beyond
 Engage in live Twitter chats
 Engage in tweet-ups

7. Chat communities
Follow and/or join in live conversations on Twitter
#libchat (Wednesday evenings, 8-9:30 PM ET)
#edchat
#tlchat
#engchat
#FYCchat
Learn more at http://bit.ly/13F4WLf

8. Conferences
 Follow conference Twitter accounts
 Follow conference hash tags
 Use conference hash tags to connect with others
 Create hash tags for conference presentations
 Schedule tweets (using hash tag) to accompany
your conference presentations
 Have a friend or co-presenter Tweet for you
during your presention

9. Tweetups
 Real life meetings of people that have
connected through Twitter
 Can be based on geography (#CLTtweetup),
theme (technologists in Chicago), or conference
 Just another tool for bringing people together

10. Communicate w/vendors
 All library vendors
have twitter
accounts and some
even have support
twitter accounts
 Twitter demands
public
accountability

11. Twitter management tools
 TweetDeck and Hootsuite
 Allow you to more easily follow certain
people/organizations/lists/trends
 Allow you to schedule tweets #highered
#ebooks
#libraries
#edtech
#infolit
#DH
#UNCC
#ClubAtkins
#UNCCproblems
#ala13

12. Campus/Library Tweeters
 Find your faculty or other units to follow:
http://mediamine.uncc.edu/twitter
 Jim Hathaway also started a list of UNCC faculty
and staff: https://twitter.com/jbhathaw/uncc
that you can subscribe to or ask to be added to
 Library Staff on Twitter: Heather McCullough,
Stanley Wilder, Lareese Hall, Donna Lanclos
See http://atkinslibraryprodev.wordpress.com

13. Questions?
Amanda Binder
@ahbinder
Atkins Library
UNC Charlotte