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Social media and libraries: a perfect fit Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com What IS social media? What does the phrase mean to you? What words come into your mind when we use the phrase? What resources do you think of? Statistics


  1. Social media and libraries: a perfect fit Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com

  2. What IS social media? • What does the phrase mean to you? • What words come into your mind when we use the phrase? • What resources do you think of?

  3. Statistics • Global active internet use totals 3.175 billion, 50% of the worlds population • Social media has 2.206 billion active users – 30% • 3.734 unique mobile users, 51% of worldwide penetration • Social media users have risen by 176,000,000 in the last year

  4. Just to push the point home • In 2010, Eric Schmitt, former CEO of Google said “ Every 2 days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003 ″ .

  5. Benefits and concerns • What are the benefits? • What are the concerns? • What issues need to be addressed?

  6. What are some of the tools? • An overview of some of the tools that are available • Examples of what other organisations are doing

  7. What other information services are doing

  8. Netvibes

  9. Blogs

  10. Tumblr

  11. Edinburgh Libraries

  12. Google +

  13. Facebook

  14. Orkney Library and Archive

  15. Manchester Libraries

  16. YouTube

  17. YouTube live streaming

  18. Google Hangouts

  19. Periscope

  20. Twitter

  21. Twitter Library List Members

  22. Pinterest

  23. Flickr

  24. Slideshare

  25. Pinterest

  26. LinkedIn

  27. Instagram

  28. Vine

  29. Snapchat • Median age of 18, majority of users 13 ‐ 25 • 200 million average monthly users, fastest growing messaging app in 2014 • 15% of all teenagers worldwide use Snapchat, and in the UK it’s 39% • 70% of college students post to Snapchat at least once a day • Major brands are already using it http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/why-snapchat-should-be-the-inseparable-addition-to-social-media-strategies/616525

  30. University of Michigan

  31. Paper.li

  32. Scoop.it

  33. Learni.st

  34. Podcasts

  35. Augmented reality

  36. URLs • Netvibes www.netvibes.com • Blogs – search Google for subject and add ‘blog’ as a search term • Tumblr https://www. tumblr .com • Tales of one city https://talesofonecity.wordpress.com/ • G+ https://plus.google.com • Facebook www.facebook.com • YouTube www.youtube.com • Google Hangouts https:// hangouts . google .com • Periscope https://medium.com/@periscope • Twitter www.twitter.com https://twitter.com/Philbradley/lists • Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/ • Flickr www.flickr.com

  37. • Slideshare www.slideshare.net/ • LinkedIn www.linkedin.com • Instagram https://instagram.com/ • Vine https://vine.co/ • Snapchat www.snapchat.com • Paper.li www.paper.li • Scoop.it www.scoop.it • Learni.st www.learni.st

  38. So why are they doing it? • Promote and market their services • Go to where the conversations are • To encourage collaboration between the library and its members • To reach out to potential members • Increase the use of library collections • Build a sense of community with users and other institutions

  39. Some of the advantages • Cheap • Doesn’t need much training • It’s a fast and effective way to communicate • Better engagement and collaboration with members • Increase use of the library and its contents • Involves the staff • Better outreach

  40. Some of the challenges • It can take time • Getting ‘the voice’ right • Need to work hard to maintain engagement • External factors such as connectivity may cause issues • You have to trust your staff • You will get some things wrong

  41. Keep in touch! • http://www.philb.com • philb@philb.com • http://www.philbradley.typepad.com • https://www.facebook.com/philipbradley

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