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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 [...]
A handy tool for web marketers at public libraries
Don’t you want to know when people are talking about you?
For a professional web marketer, it is essential to know when people are talking about your product. Many libraries have started using Twitter to announce their programs and events. Its important to recognize that good web conversation is not one-sided. Simply broadcasting [...]
My Social Graph is Getting Weird
Has anyone out there ever been in a real snoozer of a meeting and passed a note to your colleague saying something like:
The fun of passing notes in the real world is that it is private and the notes are temporary. I was in a meeting today and watched one person write something on [...]
Free TechSoup webinar: Flickr and Twitter
Expand your reach with Flickr and Twitter
Monday, June 9, 2008
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT (1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST)
On the surface, applications such as Flickr and Twitter may not appear to be online communities; but they can be used by nonprofits to mobilize constituencies, enhance outreach and fundraising activities, and expand reach. This [...]
Twitter experiment for PLA 2008
A while back, I wrote a sort of Twitter 101 post. A lot has change since that post, almost a year ago… Twitter got huge, people started getting creative with it, and now there’s this urge to expand it’s feature base. One of the features that seems to be lacking in Twitter, but [...]
Interesting conversation on social networking etiquette
Navigating the new online landscape, with all of the new social networking sites, means navigating a whole new culture. Interacting in the new culture also means understanding the etiquette of that culture.
It’s important to understand that, on a certain level, the new culture is making it up as they go along. On the [...]
ALA 2007: Swap’n'Shop, Special Collections, Hot Outreach Tech
ALA 2007: Swap’n’Shop, Special Collections, Hot Outreach Tech
This week, we’ll be highlighting various ALA events that might be of interest to our readers, whether you happen to be attending ALA, or just keeping up with the conference here on the PLA Blog.
Swap & Shop: Celebrate PR!
Sponsored by LAMA
Sunday, June 24
11 am – 1:30 pm
Washington Convention [...]
The web’s all a Twitter
No doubt you’ve heard of Twitter, the real-time social networking messaging service launched in August 2006, even in passing. According to the FAQ in the Twitter Help section:
Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter [...]
