I promised some links to the people who were in my talk yesterday. Library Learning 2.0 or 29 Things Library Learning 2.1 Slides from my patron training classes are in my slideshare account Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
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Social network profile management
Social network profile management Greg Schwartz Michael Porter Sarah Houghton-Jan Amanda Clay Powers Greg Identity Digital identity mapping – online interactions make identity much more complicated Your next employer looking for your identity will do a google search You do not own your online identity Tip -own your username - if your name is unique and can grab everywhere use it, otherwise pick something - checkusernames.com - join the conversation , develop your identity by participation - listen, pay attention to what other people are saying about you - be authentic – your digital identity should be your real identity Amanda Clay Powers What are we doing here anyway How managing identity online is like managing information We know how to manage identity because we know how to manage information (really?) Our place is to educate people about what they are doing Peoples perception that librarians don’t know how to help them with their online interactions Who else is in the position to coach people with this? Who else has the number of computers we do Sarah Being online as the library Register for online sites with a generic email address, not the address of a specific staff member Quick
Best of the Web
Best of the web Firefox - Greasemonkey - smart key words - can use set up address bar to seach any site on the web - customize google extension - better gmail2 – takes ads off of gmail google reader - helvetireader book city jackets wikimedia commons flickr image search pictobrowser skitch – screenshots, then allows for annotation, can upload directly to flickr jing – can do screenshots and screencasts screentoaster vimeo – look at the sign up process, even if you’re not going to use it, go through to look at sign up process, your libraries processes should be like this postrank copypastecharacter.com today’smeet when is good letmegooglethatforyou colorlovers tagcrowd wordle qature – real time aggregation of whats happening on twitter search.twitter.com tweetdeck vyew – free online web conferencing tool bacolicious wordpress theme called thematic very powerful ted.com googlevoice – get a number from google, calls will be routed to phone, voicemails will get transcribed googleforms zohocreator netnewswire – only for macs prezi 280slides lovelycharts typetester evernote zotero worldtimeserver.com tadalist.com hulu toodledo sendyouit emic4all – records in mp3, audacity to edit logmein.com – remote support dropbox Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share
Continued Online Community Engagement
Control what you can - Brand – logo, identity - public website - opportunities for practice - best practices online let go when you can - what is tied to your brand - where can you let go? - What needs to have a system wide project? Trust - trust staff - give guidelines - provide opportunities to learn Evaluate - honestly assess performance - find the right person for the job - accept that it will take time - accept that there will be mistakes - it is a learning experience Communities have been around for years they do police themselves, think of book review on Amazon, some will be positive and some will be negative Social media monitoring Do we really need to talk about why again, everyone that matters is doing it Customer service – when you get negative feed back go out and respond Identify stakeholders Technorati Google search Backtype Discussion boards – niche communities Boardtracker Twitter Friendfeed Flock Optiem Techregime Not about the tools, its about the community using the tools Cultivating a culture of learning Learning is not a spectator sport Libraries are not a spectator sport Stewardship – Helping people manage info exchange
Help your library be omnipresent without spending a dime
Embedded and widgetized library - Dcpl – iphone app - Chat widgets – question point - igoogle gadgets flickr badge creator – can do thru flickr steal this code now please - lets give it away – allow users to remis our source code for their own customized applications on any of their pages or sites make it easy so patrons can just copy and paste code, doesn’t need to be hard is putting code out there safe? Check with web & it folks to be sure but people will start using our stuff – creating a steal this code tool - decide what kind of widget you want to offer – catalog, databases, combo catalog & databases, web-based or IM chat - plan webpage layout of widget and code generator textarea - provide a working example of the widget so people know exactly what they are getting - the magic of html forms – simple catalog search example examples auariua library – steal this code page university of Colorado Denver – university of Minnesota dulutch UMD library advertise service prepared for success reasons to give it away platform independent fun opportunities Mobi – easy to use to create a
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