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Internet Librarian 2009 – Meredith Hammons
Marketing on the Cheap. I’ve become really fascinated with marketing efforts on the part of the library. I think this is an area that has traditionally been neglected, because of the assumption that everyone knows the library is there and what it has to offer. With the technological changes, and changes in perception of libraries, [...]
Internet Librarian 2009- Meredith Hammons
Blog #3 from the Social Media group.
The third session was “Evaluating, Recommending and Justifying 2.0 Tools” by Marydee Ojala, Editor of ONLINE Magazine.
Marydee pointed out that it is much easier for individuals to adopt to changing technologies than it is for institutions, such as libraries.
She advocated using social media for empowerment and collaboration, as well [...]
Internet Librarian 2009 – Meredith Hammons
Part two of my afternoon exploring social media was Sarah Houghton-Jan, of the San Jose Public Library, discussing Web 2.0 for underfunded libraries.
Sarah discussed several free or inexpensive tools a library can use to be involved with Web 2.0. These included various free e-mail programs such as gmail, or IM services, such as yahoo, Skype [...]
Internet Librarian 2009
I spent the afternoon yesterday at 4 different sessions under the category Social Media: Leveraging Web 2.0.
I’ll break up my blog entries for each session.
The first one was called “Micro Interactions, Conversations and Customers.”
This session was largely about how to maximize interaction on social media resources. The first speaker, David Lee King of the Topeka [...]
taxonomy vs. folksonomy
Lorraine here, with a quick thought from the YALSA blogger meetup. Some serious work on tagging and categorization is taking place at the YALSA blog and much of it is clearly needed – having standardized tags and categories make stuff findable (I assume that I need not elaborate further, o library-blog readers…)
However, Beth Gallaway brought [...]
Josh Greenberg of NYPL at Brooklyn Public Library Staff Development Day
Last Monday, Brooklyn Public Library had its Staff Development Day at Brooklyn College. The entire workforce of +/-1600 people were in attendance for a day of all kinds of workshops. The most thought provoking workshop I attended was a presentation from Josh Greenberg, Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship at New York Public [...]
Public Libraries need to look at Intel’s social media policy
I found a great piece on the social path blog the other day, where David Griner pointed to Intel’s social media policy. It is truly a forward thinking piece of policy. I hope that public libraries and library systems who are struggling to create appropriate policies and style guides for their public service staff [...]
