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Social media and libraries:a perfect fit
Phil Bradleyhttp://www.philb.com
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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?
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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
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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″.
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Benefits and concerns
• What are the benefits?
• What are the concerns?
• What issues need to be addressed?
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What are some of the tools?
• An overview of some of the tools that are available
• Examples of what other organisations are doing
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What other information services are doing
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Netvibes
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Blogs
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Tumblr
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Edinburgh Libraries
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Google +
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Facebook
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Orkney Library and Archive
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Manchester Libraries
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YouTube
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YouTube live streaming
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Google Hangouts
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Periscope
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Twitter
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Twitter Library List Members
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Pinterest
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Flickr
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Slideshare
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Pinterest
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LinkedIn
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Instagram
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Vine
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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
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University of Michigan
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Paper.li
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Scoop.it
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Learni.st
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Podcasts
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Augmented reality
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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
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• 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
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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
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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
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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
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Keep in touch!
• http://www.philb.com• [email protected]• http://www.philbradley.typepad.com• https://www.facebook.com/philipbradley