Throughout the semester, Twitter was used as a tool to
connect with and share viewpoints relating to, the LIS profession. To assist in
integrating the cohort into the wider LIS community, several twitter activities
were undertaken. These activities related to the industry and through
“following” other LIS professionals and using hashtags, aimed to harness
interactions within the community. I believe that because I didn’t use this
tool to it’s full potential and didn’t post my activities in the designated weeks
my experience using twitter as an interactive tool wasn’t as successful in this
aim as I’d hoped.
Areas of improvement:
- Along
with doing the compulsory tweets I should’ve done more to share interesting and
relevant websites with my followers.
- If
I had posted the activities in the weeks they were due then I would’ve had the
support of my lecturer and cohort. Their tweets encouraging outsiders to
interact with or discuss the topics posted, possibly would’ve increased the
chances of an LISprof communicating with me through this tool.
- If
I had been more assertive and asked opinions of LISprofs regarding important
industry related issues I might’ve not only achieved some sort of constructive
interaction or networking but also been seen as being actively involved in the
profession.
In my experience, although I didn’t encounter much
interaction from industry professionals, I was able to stay up to speed with
current industry issues through the links they posted and the issues they were
discussing. I was also able to communicate comfortably with people my class and
even more beneficially, query lecturers about important issues that had come up
in class.
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