Social Media in libraries

What is Social media o_O O_o?


Social media is media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based technology.


Social media is a variety of things, from facebook, twitter, (put more things here)


How is it used?


Social Media is used in  variety of ways: To entertain, to advertise, just say whats on your mind, give people updates on certain events or things, it has limitless ways of how you want to use it just depends on who you want to communicate to and how

Who uses it?


Social media is used by many people, they can be teachers, students, parents, practically anyone who has access to the internet can use it or is using it.


Do you like it/dislike it?


To be perfectly Honest I’m not all that social, but I’m not against social media, it’s a great way to connect to people if they aren’t close to you or to just speak your mind for whatever reason you need to.

Is it useful?

I find it highly useful and totally useless depending on the situation and or who uses it.  You’ll find all type of people in social media, you have your professional people, students, parents, your trolls /flamers.

Would/Do you use it?

Yes I use social media, but for entertainment purposes.

Can it be expanded upon?

Social media itself can’t be expanded on since it’s the now thing of today, it will be expnded but as for how im not sure, nor can I speculate on it.

Is it outdated and a newer technology should be used instead?

No socil media is not outdated at all

Are there other ways it could be used in libraries?

I Think social media at the moment in Libraries is being used incorrectly, it should be focused more on the audience as well as being more user friendly with the patrons/non patrons of the libarary.


They should have it be more appealing and known, instead of only knowing about it if your actively looking for that information.


What types of libraries could benefit from its use?


I think any library that can afford to maintain this (generally the big public libraries/ academic ones will be the biggest benefactor since they have more patrons and resources)

WIKI 101 WIKI

WHATS A WIKI O_O?


A Wiki is a place where you can store information and add information. Most wikis are open meaning people can add or delete to a Wiki. There are may differen't types of Wiki's the best known one is Wikipedia which made Wiki's famous but it isnt the only one. Nowadays anybody can create a wiki for any subject they want.

MY PERSONAL OPINION

I personally like Wiki's for the information they contain, and how you can find if it's reliable by double checking information or if it has where they got the information from. I Find em useful for getting information or for making information known to the public easily, and that they can change information if they think it's wrong.

I never made a wiki and i probably will not make a wiki anytime soon since its time consuming and you need a decent knowledge of the topic your talking about

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I dont see a Library using a wiki because they don't have much to write about except maybe the history of the library or how to use machinery withing the Library/

I would suggest a public forum for the library instead that way users can talk to each other, ask questions have them answered, and they can reply to those answers, wiki's to me just don't seem that useful in a public library, if were talking academic or government library, I still would think a forum would be more appropriate unless you have something more Wiki-related for your academic library/government (personally can't think of one at the moment though)

Upgrade to Wikis?

I personally can't see anything better than a wiki for giving out mass amount of information where users can collaborate on them. For now I think Wiki's are here to stay until something else is created to compete with them. It's the newest technology we have and we should take advantage of it if we can figure out ways on how to do that.

3 Wikis reviewed

Wikia------ This is personally a gaming wiki where it contains a lot of information about many sort of games and gaming platforms.It has a lot of images and videos one of the more advance wiki's I've seen to be honest. I consider it very useful for an avid gamer, but personally i would just hit up google and look on a official site that i trust for information, and I'm not an avid gamer so i find little use to it personally.
Wetpaint---- The most confusing Wiki i have encountered in my search, nothing made sense, i couldn't get what it was talking about or referring too.


PBwiki---- A business Wiki...enough said, I wouldn't use it since that's not my department, besides that the layout is decent but not my thing.

RSS FEED 101

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WHAT IS AN RSS FEED?

An RSS feed is a format for delivering reguarly chaning web content a.k.a keeping you uptodate on your interests in one place instead of you having to look for them everywhere.

. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS to whoever wants it. An RSS feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically.

 How is it used?

You can you use RSS feeds by using  Feed Reader or News Aggregator software that allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use. An RSS feed is  used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format

 Who uses it?

Anyone can use an RSS feed who has access to the internet.The Rss feed it is very useful who are very busy or organized. RSS feeds are all in one place and come to you instead of you having to find them. It's a time saver and a very useful tool if someone wants to give out quick updates to people

Would you/Do you use it?

I probably wouldn’t use it because I don’t have anything I want to keep updated on constantly, I do not use it , only place I could see using it if in my job I was required

  Can it be expanded upon?

I don’t think it can be expanded on due to it's main purpose is just to keep you uptodate, the only way it could possibly expand is if every site could use an rss feed without any problem.

 Is it outdated and a newer technology should be used instead?

From what I'm aware currently there is no other  technology out there that matches what the RSS feed does.

 Are there other ways it could be used in libraries?

What types of libraries could benefit from its use? Libraries can use this to update on news on the library like event's or new books, sudden closings or things like that. Public libraries and possibly academic libraries would be the ones to gain most from this

Blogging 1O1

SO.... I'm creating a blog for the First time since its a requirement for my course at Red river College, so this First post will be about a blog.

A blog is a place where your write down, thoughts, feelings, well basically whatever you want to express to people who may have an interest in what your saying. By the looks of it you need a google account to start one (at least with bloggers.com). From there you create your blog name and url (aka the link to send to people so they can see the blog if they want.) Anyone can use a blog, as long as you have access to a computer, spare time and a topic to write about. The people who generally use it will be either teens who just want to say random things, buisness to contact potential buyers/partners or to send out info in a quick way. Just remember anyone can use it...

we'll I still have no opinion on bloggingg but.... >_> I think if you want a nice design to your blog you better learn some html, that or use the user friendly ones given to you, <_< its kind of like myspace in my view, since u can put some pics, backgrounds, info on yourself, possibly music (yet to test that out). Id probably never use a blog unless requried because personally I dont like saying much and if i need to say it a blog definitly would not be my first choice.


A blog is a good concept for a library because you can put anything and everything on it, keep people updated very quickly, and post events, pictures and the such. Again I compared a blog to myspace so I think it's a tad outdated in the format they use (html) but its still useful and currently I don't know another site that can do all this (well besides facebook and similair things of course). Libraries that can use this would be any, probably smaller ones would be good so they can get the word out (since they probably can't afford big advertisements on buses and the such).

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