Thing #12: Do You Digg?

As I look over the various social media sites, I'm starting to understand how these might be useful to librarians- it's a way to find out, quickly, what the "buzz" is on various topics- so that we might be better prepared to know the latest issues/news stories that our patrons are interested in. This is helpful because the amount of news and info available online is overwhelming. I often want to know what people are talking about/ interested in NOW- and these social media sites are a way to see what people are interested in NOW.

I set up a Digg account and shared a New York Times article about Federer winning the U.S. Open. It was very easy to do.