After setting up a twitter account, http://twitter.com/boltonsteele (and discovering that yes, you can choose to tweet privately, (as a verb, it sounds like a rather intimate action, between consenting adults, doesn't it?)), I tracked down a few feeds to follow, including that lovable renaissance man Jian http://twitter.com/jianghomeshi. Wow, this is 6 degrees of separation to the nth degree. Amazing how the connections multiply. I could see this being a great tool for people travelling, or with kids away at school, as a way to check in with loved ones. OLA has encouraged superconference attendees to "tweet the conference"; it would certainly get a buzz going about speakers, or allow the conversation to develop following a session, or, to arrange to meet up for lunch! We could use it at an event such as County Town carnival to announce, for example, 1 hour until the next Beatrice performance. We could even use our library account as an informal poll to measure patron interest in a new product or service.
