Category Archives: Social Networking

New Pages on Facebook

November 7th, 2007

This is from a new post on the Facebook blog:

You now have a way to connect with things you are passionate about. We’ve launched Facebook Pages, which are distinct, customized profiles designed for businesses, bands, celebrities and more to represent themselves on Facebook.

We noticed people wanted to connect with their favorite music, restaurants, and brands; but there was no good place for these types of affiliations to exist. Now, there is a place for them and you can become a fan of whatever pages you choose in order to interact with your passions in new ways.

Does this include libraries? I know there was some fuss a while back when library accounts were deleted from Facebook – maybe now there is a way for us to have pages for our libraries.

[update]

Stacey Greenwell comments at Tame the Web

I created a Facebook Page for the University of Kentucky Libraries this morning. This has absolutely made my day, as I was one who complained loudly when Facebook removed all the library profiles.

Get this–when you create a Facebook Page, one of the categories is “Library/Public Building.” Woo-hoo!!

It gets better–you can add your hours and videos as well as the usual photos, wall, and discussion board. My favorite part–your “friends” are FANS! Consider being a fan of UK Libraries:

http://utk.facebook.com/profile.php?id=14376935028

To create a Facebook Page, when logged in, click on the Business link across the bottom of page. That page will give you a link to Facebook Pages.

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No more MySpace

November 6th, 2007

Well, no more MySpace for me. I gave it a whirl and have decided that I do not need an account on more than one social networking site and Facebook is the winner. I know that some people think that Facebook is becoming noisier and noisier – but for me, it still hasn’t reached MySpace levels. Lastly, most of my friends are already on Facebook and Facebook has Scrabulous!

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Common Knowledge

October 11th, 2007

This is just too cool. LibraryThing has added a new feature (and updated the layout of the site – I think).

Common Knowledge adds fields to every author and work, like:

* Author: Places of residence, Awards and honors, Agent
* Work: Important places, Character names, Publisher’s editor, Description

All-told there are fourteen fields. But Common Knowledge is less a set of fields than a structure for adding fields to LibraryThing. Adding more fields is almost trivial, and they can be added to anything existing or planned"”from tags and subjects, to bookstores and publishers. They can even be added to other Common Knowledge fields, so that, for example, agents and editors can, in the future, sport photos and contact information.* This can lead to, as Chris puts it, “nearly infinite cross-linking of data.”

Learn more and see some examples in Tim’s blog post.

This is just going to eat up all of my time – I’m going to have to catalog the characters in every book I own!!!

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Office Communication the 2.0 Way

September 21st, 2007

Yesterday I gave a presentation at a special library on how to use the power of blogs and wikis to improve communication and collaboration within your organization. The slides are online, but if you’ve ever attended one of my talks, you’ll know that the slides are just a quick intro. The meat of the presentation was the live demo.

Office Communication the 2.0 Way
Lawrenceville, NJ, September 20, 2007

After giving this talk, I realized how much I miss have a great library intranet Guess I’ll have to start giving the same talk here

Social Networking in Academic Libraries

August 27th, 2007

If you didn’t fill out the survey already, Gerry has re-opened it:

Due To Popular Interest, I’ve Decided To Continue My Survey Of The Use Of Social Networking Sites By Academic Librarians And Libraries.

The Survey has been Re-Opened and Is Available From

[ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/...of-social.html ]

TheSurvey is intended for Those Who Did Not Have An Opportunity To Complete before the August 10th Deadline.

BTW: If you had previously completed the Survey, I ask that you do not re-visit. Thanks!

***The Survey Will Remain Open Until Further Notice***

NB: I Will Indeed Post The Survey Results (Through August 10th) [Most Likely After Labo(u)r Day]

!!! SPREAD THE WORD !!!

Thanks!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

My question is – will we see the results from the re-opened survey as well??

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