On Sunday evenings I often attend a twitter chat called #blogchat. One regular topic is blog review. Bloggers will submit their blogs for review along with either questions for the group or insights into their vision/mission of their blogs.As with all critiques (especially online ones), these can turn personal and even mean-spirited.

A few of us at twitter (thanks @ashuping) were having a discussion about images & creative commons which expanded to microblogging. A few months ago I read a really interesting post arguing that if you post an image through twitter it is essentially public and free to be used by anybody (or at least that is how I read the article).

A twitter post (@sabram @eranium) a few weeks ago posited this question:CFO asks CEO "What happens if we invest in developing our people & then they leave us?" CEO: 'What happens if we don't, a

I do use DM (direct messages) in Twitter to "email" my Twitter followers and those I follow, esp. if it's of a more personal nature.My DMs are always real; however, some Twitter users use various tools to create an AutoDM. It can sometimes be hard to tell if a DM is "real" (actually handwritten by a person) or AUTO (generated by a bot based upon some criteria).

My social media policy:Use appropriate social media tools to professionally connect and cultivate a community of interesting individuals while sharing my experience, knowledge, and creativity. I will not friend/follow network everyone for the sake of numbers. Best practices1. Participate2. Be respectful and appropriate - remember your audience3. Share but don't overshare - if your mom or boss shouldn't see it, reconsider!4. Build a community and be part of it.5.

Go to Settings>MobileText message notifications:Twitter will send alerts to your phone, depending on your settings. You can limit it to particular times (I would not want to receive alerts in the middle of the night), or particular types of messages. You can limit to only those you allow to send to send alerts via twitter (perhaps, your family, dearest friends, or your boss, if you tweet for work); to direct messages, as well as mentions and replies.So, you'll want to think about how many times you want twitter to alert your phone and for what.

I know this info is available online, but it's my question of the day, so here goes.

Tools I use:To future/schedule tweets

• Future tweets
• Brizzly

To post:

• Brizzly
• delicious to twitter (links)
• picnik (twitpic) to twitter (images)

To manage followers/following

• TwitterKarma: see follows/unfollows and when they posted last (can be slow)
• Mytweeple: same as above with a little more info

To manage my presence:

• Klout
• Twitterstatistics

Librarians and library people I follow

• @libraryfuture

[I follow more non-library people than I do li

As many of you know, the Library of Congress acquired (was given) the Twitter archive beginning with 2006 (read more about that here). I think this is interesting but at the same time, it seems to go against the nature of twitter.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hN15GVQNZw&hl=en_US&fs=1]