Social Networking and the Penrose Library

Social Networking and the Penrose Library
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Science and Engineering Librarian
April 3, 2009
Presentation at the CoASL Spring Workshop

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This slide show is at: www.slideshare.com/jokrausdu

Question
How do Kindergarteners learn?

Answer?
Playing with toys and games
Trying things out
Experimenting
Watching, observing, touching and reading
Having fun

What is Penrose using and doing?
Cool Tools Page
http://library.du.edu/FindIt/ResearchGuides/rg_main.cfm?rg_id=313
Twitter
Facebook
LibX Toolbar
Blogs
Encore tagging
A wiki as an Intrazone (not viewable by the public)
LibraryH3lp chat tool (will be using soon)
Website redesign (before Fall 2009)

What are the results of the social networking?
Not sure yet…
We have 230+ fans in Facebook, 58+ in Twitter
Beth Kanter does a lot of research on “ How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media ”.
Businesses want to use social networking for marketing and building customer relationships.
See these 87 books , reports and more .

What am I personally using?
FriendFeed -- http://friendfeed.com/jokrausdu
Delicious -- http:// delicious.com/jokrausdu
Blogs -- http://www.nuthingbut.net/
Twitter -- http://www.twitter.com/jokrausdu
Facebook -- http:// du.facebook.com/profile.php?id =20204459
Photography sites -- http://www.flickr.com/jokrausdu and http://picasaweb.google.com/jokrausdu/
YouTube -- http:// www.youtube.com/jokrausdu

Questions?
Lots of ways to get a hold of me…
Email – [email_address] , [email_address]
Phone – 303-871-4586

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