Social Media Starter Kit
Coral Sheldon-Hess
This hands-on program will walk participants through the technical and logistical steps involved in creating and posting to social media accounts for their libraries. After a quick introduction to social media, we will discuss issues of staffing, etiquette and best practices, and strategies to make a library’s social media presence both interesting and informative. Each participant will have the opportunity to build a Facebook page (or Twitter account, if they prefer) for their library and begin populating it with content.
Examples of social media plans & policies:
From an academic library UTSouthwesternLibrarySocialMediaPolicy_LLT_Final.pdf
From a public library whitmanPL-socialmedia.pdf
For staff (from a public library) AthensGAstaff_social_media.pdf
A tool to help you generate your own: Social Media Policy Tool
How-to guides made by me, to walk you step-by-step through account and page creation:
How to Make a Facebook Account.pdf
How to Make a Twitter Account.pdf
Creating a Page in Facebook.pdf
Information on participating in social media for this conference:
Social Media
Information on Twitter (and Facebook) for libraries:
6 Things Libraries Should Tweet, by Andy Burkhart (Information Tyrannosaur)
How Not to Tweet, by David Lee King - Sounds negative, but he has some good points, as well
10 Ways to be Useful on Twitter, by Ryan Miller (TwiTip)
An Open Letter to Museums on Twitter, by Nina Simon - This applies equally well to libraries.
Ambient Awareness in Twitter for Reference, by Andy Burkhart again - This is that "proactive Twitter reference" I keep talking about.
Some AK social media accounts:
UAS Library - http://www.facebook.com/pages/UAS-Egan-Library/16021745060
UAF Library - http://www.facebook.com/uaflibrary
State Library - http://twitter.com/#!/akstatelibrary
List of libraries (not all local) - http://twitter.com/#!/AKStateLibrary/libraries
Anchorage Public Library - http://www.facebook.com/anchoragelibrary
UAA/APU Consortium Library - http://www.facebook.com/ConsortiumLibrary
UAA Archives & Special Collections - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Archives-Special-Collections-UAAAPU-Consortium-Library/35545328948
Comments (2)
Freya Anderson said
at 3:17 pm on Feb 15, 2011
29 registered attendees
Coral Sheldon-Hess said
at 10:38 am on Feb 28, 2011
This is the kind of thing I was talking about, with that "proactive Twitter reference" plug: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/embedded-librarian-on-twitter-served-as-information-concierge-for-class
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