Twitter

Twitter seems appropriately named somehow. I can see using it as a way to have a meeting among people not in the same place. I can also see using it to update people about an event. For instance, they just knocked down the building next to ours. Everyone wanted to see the last wall fall. I could have twittered the progress to colleagues as it was happening.

At the moment, it seems most appropriate for group work but I'm not sure what other functions the library could use it for---but I"ll keep thinking. Twitter has a wiki. I can check that. Mostly people use it to assure themselves that they are not the only ones in the world---and that's a comforting feeling.