10. Your Tools
• Facebook (pages, events)
• Twitter (#hashtags)
• YouTube
• Blogs (others’ and your own)
• Local social networks
– www.odnoklassniki.ru
– www.vk.com
• Social networks about reading and libraries
– www.goodreads.com
– www.librarything.com
• …
11. Choose Your Tools
• Your goal?
• Your target audience?
• Your message?
• The right tool(s) and activities
– Where is your target audience?
– What is interesting and attractive
to them?
– What do you want them to think, know
and feel?
13. Measure Your Success
• www.hootsuite.com
social media tools and stats
• www.bit.ly
count your clicks
• Facebook Insights for Pages
Facebook’s built-in statistics tool
14. A Social Library
• Seattle Public Library, USA
(www.facebook.com/SeattlePublicLibrary)
– Cares about target audience
– Sets goals
– Fun!
15. Online Advocacy
• Iasi Country Library, Romania
– Iasi Country Library Deserves a Home
advocacy campaign using social media
– Goal: finding a proper home for the library
– Inspiration: Matt Harding
(www.wherethehellismatt.com)
– Tools used:
• Blogs (biblioteciiesene.wordpress.com)
• Facebook
• Flickr
• YouTube
16. Want More Inspiration?
• The Librarian in Black
www.librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/
• The Shifted Librarian
www.theshiftedlibrarian.com
• Letters to a Young Librarian
letterstoayounglibrarian.blogspot.com
• #libchat
every Wednesday on Twitter