First Mobile Thing

Ok, I've completed the 'Web 2.0' 23 Things back in 2007, then followed that up with 'Web 2.1' Things 24 to 70 in 2009, now comes the 23 Mobile Things a program to learn  about the potential of mobile things - technologies that are changing the way people, society and libraries access and deliver information and communicate with each other.
The first "thing" is Twitter. I was introduced to Twitter as part of Thing 35-Microblogging. Since then I've spasmodically checked my feed, and currently my count of tweets stands at 91, most of them are now the Twitterfeed RSS feeds from this blog.
To explore this Mobile Thing you need to sign up to Twitter, install the app and tweet about you favourite library or museum.

 Library was too easy so I've chosen museum, and one of my favourites, just 'cos it was such a surprise. The Jeparit Museum (the Wimmera-Mallee Pioneer Museum) was so much more than I anticipated, it has a varied collection of buildings, lots of machinery, and collections of the stock and trade (bottles, antique & historic home-wares, farm tools, etc). What is different is the set out - a collection of medical equipment in the old Chemist shop building, Sporting & club memorabilia in the Hall building, the school and homestead both set up as if still in operation.

The sheer volume of items that have been donated is staggering. The showcase piece is the Albacutya Homestead which was dismantled and re-erected at the site, but seeing the fully finished Detpa school virtually as the students would have left it in 1953 was amazing.

Back to Twitter, and its role in libraries? Yes it has immediacy for short messages - 
The Mobile Library has broken down and won't be visiting today,  
or advertising storytime/holiday activities, for people who are checking their accounts regularly. But personally I prefer the look & feel of Facebook to fulfill that role.