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Social Media: What’s trending?

#VLAGETSOCIAL. Social Media: What’s trending?. Margaret Howard VLA Conference 2013. “The only constant in life is change itself”  – Heraclitus, Greek Philisopher , 475 BC. “The Internet” - 1997. #VLAGETSOCIAL. Value is in its size

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Social Media: What’s trending?

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  1. #VLAGETSOCIAL Social Media: What’s trending? Margaret Howard VLA Conference 2013

  2. “The only constant in life is change itself” – Heraclitus, Greek Philisopher, 475 BC “The Internet” - 1997 #VLAGETSOCIAL

  3. Value is in its size • Trying to keep up by making changes (Story-bump & last actor) • How to fail at Social Media (And How to get it right) – Lauren Soloman • http://infopeople.org/training/how_to_fail Facebook #VLAGETSOCIAL

  4. #VLAGETSOCIAL • One of the first successful microbloging platforms • Value from its size (540 million users) • So Many Librarians! • #Hashtags & @Handles Twitter

  5. Get a handle (name) “@THELIBRARY” • Rt: Re-tweeting • MT: Modified tweet • # : hashtag EG #literacy Twitter #VLAGETSOCIAL

  6. Interacting with Patrons !! Advocacy #VLAGETSOCIAL Sharing Cool Ideas

  7. #VLAGETSOCIAL • Picture sharing platform • App designed mainly for smartphones • Launched October 2010 • More than 100 million users Instagram

  8. #VLAGETSOCIAL • App is available in iTunes, Android stores, WP users: 3rd party client 6-tag • #Hastags & @Handles • Easy to create clean, attractive pictures Instagram

  9. Instagram “Win an iPad Mini (!!) “Hashtag #HuntLibrary “Marketing Strategy “Pictures added to the University’s Digital Archive #VLAGETSOCIAL

  10. The ultimate micro-blogging website • Easy to create text, pictures, video, link posts • Incredibly easy to connect with followers • 130 million blogs • 1,000s of libraries and librarians #VLAGETSOCIAL Tumblr

  11. Tumblr #VLAGETSOCIAL

  12. Tumblr Dashboard Search tags & blogs #VLAGETSOCIAL

  13. Suggested Tags #VLAGETSOCIAL

  14. Re-blogging & Liking Like Reply Re-Blog

  15. Tagging!It is important! Tags So much power in one small icon

  16. #Libraries? #VLAGETSOCIAL

  17. #Dinosaurs? #VLAGETSOCIAL

  18. #kidslib? #VLAGETSOCIAL

  19. #library advocacy? #VLAGETSOCIAL

  20. #hahaha? #VLAGETSOCIAL

  21. #Literacy? #VLAGETSOCIAL

  22. #LiBerry? #VLAGETSOCIAL

  23. #Tumblarians? #VLAGETSOCIAL

  24. #VLAGETSOCIAL  “the best baby Twitter and WordPress didn’t know they ever had.”  - Kate Tkacik

  25. Thelifeguardlibrarian.tumblr.com Get on this list #VLAGETSOCIAL

  26. fancylibrarian.tumblr.com • Fancy_Librarian • @miss_librarian • Virginia Librarians List on Twitter • margarethoward01@gmail.com Margaret HowardAssistant Branch ManagerChesterfield County Public Library #VLAGETSOCIAL

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