Everybody is "tweet"ing

Twitter is everywhere. You can twitter about the news, about the weather, to your favorite talk show host. I bet you can even twitter to Oprah. We can twitter to each other, and often do. I enjoy logging onto Twitter.com and see what everyone is talking about. You usually find yourself in the middle of some conversation, which you may or may not be able to go backwards to pick up the thread. If you can't, then you can use your imagination. That can be a lot of fun.

We could use Twitter for J and YA programming. If a branch had an account and kids signed on as followers, you could float ideas out there and get feedback. This could be done before any time had been spent on planning a program. If you got negative feedback, then you could move on to another idea or tweak it to make it more interesting to your patrons. But, as usual, this takes time and someone has to be committed to keeping this up. But it could be interesting to hear what our young patrons had to say.