Barack, Lauren. "Teens all a Twitter." School Library Journal 53 (2007).
This article covers Library Camp NYC, a participation-driven event that took place in New York City in August of 2007. Attendees included librarians and other information specialists. The participants discussed Facebook, MySpace, and other social media as useful tools in a school library setting.
However, Barack did not do her background research on Twitter. She refers to it as a "free, Web-based text messaging service" and writes that tweeting is "basically, posting text messages online." This makes it sound like I can punch in anyone's cell phone number and Tweet messages at them. Not true.
This article is extremely short, and just touches on several new types of social media that librarians can use. However, in describing social media tools to others who are not converse in that particular technology (yet), one must be extremely careful to choose words wisely and explore the technology as much as possible.
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