Advice from a guy who's way too new to Twitter to be giving advice

I haven't delved too much into Twitter before, but I think I'm starting to get hooked. For anyone who's having trouble "getting it," it's basically a more elegant version of Facebook's status updates feed. But you won't get much out of it until you're following enough people to see new content every time you visit the site.

By default the "search" field will show you recent tweets containing the keyword you entered, but if you're looking for users to follow you should click over from "Tweets" to "People." (Of course, if you see a tweet that interests you, you can always click on the name of the person who posted it and see their other recent tweets -- you'll probably find yourself following complete strangers, but there's nothing wrong with that as long as they're providing interesting content).

If you're having trouble figuring out who you might be interested in following, I'd suggest the following:

1) Try searching for Authors, Directors, Musicians, Publishers, etc. that interest you.

2) Look at the profiles of coworkers/friends/etc. and see who they're following. Looking at Donna's list, I was able to add a half-dozen right away.

3) Search for generic terms that fit your professional development goals. Things like "books," "libraries," "technology," etc. Then look through both the "Tweets" and "People" results, and see what might be worthwhile.

Most major content providers (newspapers, blogs, websites, etc.) will use a Twitter account to announce updates, so Twitter is a wonderful way to supplement/replace an RSS feed.

Hope this helps! Follow me @mark_mullis.

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I was wondering how can I send all my LIBNET emails to an already existing file from my INBOX mail. The problem is that they do not automatically appear in that folder when they are sent, so what I have to do is to select each one and send them to the LIBNET file. There must be a way to correct this problem and in fact, I have tried some of the help suggestions but nothing seems to work.

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Twitter anyone?

About 10 days ago I decided to go from theory to practice with Twitter. Like Facebook, I decided I couldn't really understand this phenomenon withouth experiencing it myself. I've learned a ton already and see that I have a ton more to learn. Come play with me on Twitter and find out what RT means, what's a hashtag, who's following who and why. I'm @donnarwalker. See if you can find and follow me. See if you can find ALD's accounts to see what we're doing in this social network world.

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Good Tech Website

For my Competitive Intelligence class at DU, I had to keep up with trending issues pertaining to yahoo, google, twitter and msn. The best feeds that I got were always from Mashable at www.mashable.com. It's a really good website to keep up with the trends in the tech world.