I'm still not entirely to grips with Twitter and what can be gained from it. I don't use social media very often in my personal life, only checking the current events on Facebook a couple of times a week at most, so I've been finding it very hard to get in to the habit of checking Twitter on a regular basis.
I think once I change my habits and start checking Twitter more regularly I will start to see the benefits; already some of my friends and library colleagues are recommending people for me to follow that I probably would never of heard of without Twitter. But I have already started to encounter irritations. Some of the corporations I follow are posting so frequently that my timeline is filled by them in less than an hour, so I have a lot to read through on my twice weekly Twitter check.
I have a similar problem with Google Reader - I'm just not in the habit of checking blogs, and keep forgetting to log in to it. I'm pretty certain that this will change as I've read even more interesting library information from the blogs than I have from Twitter. I've really enjoyed the blog Rarely Sited.
I'm going to carry on with these tools, and try not to get too complacent in checking them. These were some of the main reasons I joined up to CPD23, so I don't want to let my new found knowledge slip!
