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The Social Library
Twitter, Delicious and FriendFeed
The Social Web Beyond Blogging
Microblogging
Building your own online brand
New tools give you more results in less time
Easier to build community with new tools
Conversation
Engage in the conversation.
Make sure you are in the right conversation!
This is not the place to be defensive, arrogant, severe or any other librarian stereotype.
Who Are You?
Library should have specific account for itself.
Do not combine official library account with personal account.
Build a library brand online as well as your own personal professional brand.
Brand Building Tips
Use the same username on all social sites. Best if it is your real name.
Use a real photo of yourself.
Respond to comments.
Be consistent. Be authentic.
Link, link, link.
Beware!
Do not expect immediate results!
Use tools to save time.
Monitor what is being said about you.
Be open to new applications – but not too open.
Delicious
Delicious.com
Social bookmarking
Tagging
Use for your library’s collection of websites
Microblogging
Your patrons are already here!
Flexible and easy
Embeddable on your website
Reasons Librarians Should Twitter1. Promote your brand2. Promote your library3. Helps with your writing skills – pare down4. Quick and easy5. Capture your ideas as they happen6. Easily consumed by people you want to
reach7. Build a network of colleagues8. Discern trends, discuss issues, get ideas.9. Learn from others
Inspiration! Embed staff members’ Twitter feeds
Get Library its own Twitter account
Feed RSS feeds into Twitter – library account posts all on its own!
One library has SIRSI tweet once an hour if a book on the new book shelf checks out via a custom report!
Twitter Tools
TweetDeck
TwitStamp
TwitterFeed
Tweetmarks
SocialToo and FriendorFollow
TwitterLit
FriendFeedPromote your
Lifestream
Supports 49 Services
Brings everything together to one place
Embeddable on blogs and websites
Helpful FriendFeed Tools
Twhirl – client for FF and Twitter
PeopleBrowsr – browser-based client for FF, Twitter, Facebook and many more
FriendFeedLinks
Other Tools Worth Trying
StumbleUpon
Digg
THANK YOU!You can find me @
Sites & Soundbytes: http://sites.menashalibrary.org/Kids Lit: http://kidslit.menashalibrary.org/
TashRow on Twitter and AIM
http://delicious.com/tashrowhttp://delicious.com/menashalibraryhttp://friendfeed.com/tashrow
