http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/authors/sam-burgess/ Recent content in Sam Burgess on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/roper-et-al/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/roper-et-al/ Introduction Twitter chats offer a new way to undertake professional development and networking online.  A Twitter chat takes place at a pre-arranged time, uses a hashtag to organise and aggregate tweets, and usually tackles an agenda of numbered questions.  Increasingly popular, a number of opportunities for clinicians to chats via Twitter now exist, for example, in the UK, those held under the #wecommunities[i] banner. Library-related chats in Britain include #chartership[ii] chat for candidates for CILIP chartership, #radlibchat[iii] from the Radical Librarians collective and #uklibchat[iv], whose chats take place under the strapline Instant Ideas and Collaboration.