Should we be more Social? James Mullan CMS Cameron McKenna LLP BIALL Conference – Manchester 2009

Social Productivity? Let’s think about our working lives for a moment BIALL Conference Cheese & Wine BIALL Mailing List Duplicates Exchange Scheme LIS-LAW

Let’s think about our working lives for a moment

BIALL Conference

Cheese & Wine

BIALL Mailing List

Duplicates Exchange Scheme

LIS-LAW

How Social Media tools can help!

Twitter A Microblogging tool Made famous by celebrity users Stephen Fry Jonathan Ross Barack Obama James Mullan

A Microblogging tool

Made famous by celebrity users

Stephen Fry

Jonathan Ross

Barack Obama

James Mullan

Several ways to use Twitter Searching for information Information Updating Following trends Asking questions Social Networking

Several ways to use Twitter

Searching for information

Information Updating

Following trends

Asking questions

Social Networking

Tweetbeep and Twilert will email you when Tweets match your search terms Hashtags are used to identify and find content #Mumbai #Bushfires #UKSnow #CreditCrunch

Tweetbeep and Twilert will email you when Tweets match your search terms

Hashtags are used to identify and find content

#Mumbai

#Bushfires

#UKSnow

#CreditCrunch

TweetDeck Twhirl Twellow TweetStats Twist Twitterverse Twitterholic

TweetDeck

Twhirl

Twellow

TweetStats

Twist

Twitterverse

Twitterholic

Social Networking site Made infamous by some of its applications! Compare People Zombies Super Poke Pirates

Social Networking site

Made infamous by some of its applications!

Compare People

Zombies

Super Poke

Pirates

BIALL Librarians and Facebook CILIP Members Online Information Law Librarians for RSS! Law Librarians KM for Legal Professionals Society for Computers & Law

BIALL

Librarians and Facebook

CILIP Members

Online Information

Law Librarians for RSS!

Law Librarians

KM for Legal Professionals

Society for Computers & Law

A picture paints a thousand words…

Social Networking Site Professional & Personal Networks can be about “anything” For Law Librarians… … 4 sites… Law Libraries and Law Librarians

Social Networking Site

Professional & Personal

Networks can be about “anything”

For Law Librarians…

… 4 sites…

Law Libraries and Law Librarians

Social Networking site Professional “business people” focus Not just about networking

Social Networking site

Professional “business people” focus

Not just about networking

Using LinkedIn Contact Lists Recommendations Publishing Q&A’s Research Groups

Using LinkedIn

Contact Lists

Recommendations

Publishing

Q&A’s

Research

Groups

The “dangers” of Social Networking Addiction Privacy Frolleagues “ LinkedIn warns social networkers about dangers of frolleagues” Guardian Thursday 14 August 2008

Addiction

Privacy

Frolleagues

Social Bookmarking sites Just saving bookmarks? “Reading over over people’s shoulders” Keeping up with trends/hot topics

Social Bookmarking sites

Just saving bookmarks?

“Reading over over people’s shoulders”

Keeping up with trends/hot topics

What else… Categories (Tags) RSS Feeds Searches

What else…

Categories (Tags)

RSS Feeds

Searches

More Social Media tools!

What are some of the other concerns? The 6P’s of Social Media Cost Exposure Sustainability Time

The 6P’s of Social Media

Cost

Exposure

Sustainability

Time

What you could be missing out on! Massive audience Benchmarking Professional Development Opportunities

Massive audience

Benchmarking

Professional Development Opportunities

From the sublime to…

Questions/Thoughts James. Mullan @ cms - cmck .com http://www. therunninglibrarian .co. uk http://www.twitter.com/jimmy1712