Social media and the library
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This document discusses Joseph Kraus' use of social media both personally and professionally as a science and engineering librarian. It provides examples of blogs and social media platforms Kraus uses personally, including Twitter, FriendFeed, and Delicious. It also lists blogs and platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr that Kraus' library, the Penrose Library, uses. The document offers tips on managing multiple social media accounts through Hootsuite and sharing blog posts on Twitter. It concludes by offering Kraus' contact information for any additional questions.
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- 1. Social Media and the Library Joseph Kraus Science & Engineering Librarian Penrose Library 4/29/11
- 3. Personal Use of Social Media •To connect with other librarians…
- 6. Personal Use of Social Media •Twitter (@jokrausdu) and FriendFeed. •Use #hashtags to mark a subject, for example. Good for conference discussion. •Blogs, such as: –http://www.sciencelibrary.org/ –http://www.nuthingbut.net/ –http://lis4375.wordpress.com/ –http://collaborativelibrarianship.wordpress.com/ –Others… •Delicious (jokrausdu)
- 9. Social Media for the Library •Blogs such as: –http://library.du.edu/penrosepen/ –http://library.du.edu/goodanswers/ –http://library.du.edu/dupedia/ •Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr
- 10. How do I manage some of them? •Hootsuite. Five accounts (One personal, one for Penrose, and three organizational.) •http://twitterfeed.com/ to feed in blog posts to twitter. •Only one blog feed is allowed to go into Facebook; we do the Penrose Pen. •Most are team-based blogs.
- 11. Browser buttons •Bookmark a page on my delicious account •Shorten a URL with bit.ly •Login to WordPress •Save something to sciencelibrary.org
- 12. Images? Do an advanced search in Flickr and limit to Creative Commons licensed images. •http://www.flickr.com/photos/30976576@N07/4113330094/in/photostream •http://www.flickr.com/photos/jahw/2607891945/sizes/z/in/pool-780301@N20/ •http://www.flickr.com/photos/z6p6tist6/500048151/
- 13. Thanks! •Let me know if you have any questions. •[email protected]