The document provides an overview of social media tools available for libraries, outlining their potential to enhance information delivery, engagement, and learning. It discusses various types of social media, such as blogs, microblogging, wikis, and social networking, highlighting their features and uses within library contexts. The document aims to serve as a guide for libraries to effectively utilize these technologies to connect with their communities and share information.

1. Social Media tools for librariesReysa C. AlenzuelaDirectorThomas Jefferson Information Center

2. Goals1. Provide an overview of Social Media;2. Present a landscape social media environs;3. Underscore the salient features of selected social media tools which can be used by libraries and information centers;4. Share a summary of working guidelines on how to effectively use social networking tools to deliver and expound information, engage in discussion and promote learning.

3. New Media LandscapeEmerging TechnologySocial MediaWeb 2.0

4. Emerging TechnologyA general term used to denote significant technological developments that in effect, broach new territory in some significant way in their field.

5. Social Media Information content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies.

6. Web 2.0 The Web 2.0 concept represents a second wave of Web technologies to create more interactive and easy-to-use Web sites using new technologies.

8. Social Media ToolsSocial NetworkingBlogs or WeblogsMicrobloggingWikisSocial BookmarkingPodcastingSMS and Instant Messaging (IM)Online Book CatalogsPhoto SharingAudio & Video Sharing

9. Social NetworkingA social networking site is an online place where a user can create a profile and build a personal network that connects him or her to other users.Communities with a common interest/ topic develop and evolve through the use of these sites.

11. Salient Features Page vs. Group

12. Visibility

13. InsightsAnnounce new books in the library

14. Let clienteles know what you are doing

15. Link to useful websites

16. Connect with other libraries

17. Create discussion threads

18. Solicit feedback

19. Hold competitions that will spur involvement

20. What are Blogs?Or weblogs are websites that are frequently updatedCan be personal or informationalCan be authored by an individual or a teamUsers can leave comments

22. Microblogs*a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts

23. via mobile phones, email or the Web

24. people use microblogging to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information

25. Twitter is a popular microblogging tool

26. WikisA website that allows visitors to add, delete and otherwise edit all available content.*Also refers to the collaborative software itself – the so-called “wiki engine” – that facilitates the operation of such a website. *Excellent for collaborative writing.

29. Social BookmarkingSocial bookmarking is saving links of Web sites to a public site and tagging them with keywords.It differs from bookmarks because the bookmarks are only available on the computer you are using.Visitors to social bookmarking sites can search for sites that others have linked to by keyword, person who added the site, or popularity.Hartman, Karen. 2009. Lecture Notes on" The 23 Things".

31. PodcastingiPod + broadcastingAudio and/or videoUsing RSS, people can subscribe to the podcasts and listen and/or watch anything you’ve done whenever they have time to do it!

32. Instant Messagingis a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via devices connected over a network such as the Internet.

34. SMSShort Message Service (SMS) is a communication service standardized in the GSM mobile communication system, using standardized communications protocols allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile telephone devices.

36. Online Book CatalogDisplays all the books have added to the catalog.Each book added connects to other people.The book page gives quality data and shows you who else has the book and what they think about it.Provides connectivity.

38. Photo Sharing*“A picture is worth a thousand words.”Photographs – visual texts – can support communication by vividly portraying noteworthy or unfamiliar objects and experiences.

40. Video Sharingallow contentsuppliers to upload video effortlessly, automatically convertingfrom many different formatsUsers can easily share videos by mailing links or embedding them on web pages or in blogs. Users canalso rate and comment on videos, bringing new social aspectsto the viewing of videos.

42. Thoughts to PonderOne size does not fit all

43. Thoughts to PonderFocus on goal not on technology

44. Thoughts to PonderWhen we became interested… this is where it starts!!!

45. Reality BitesTime constraintLack of knowledgeDigital DivideHighly addictive