[Lahle Wolfe] Twitter is a micro-blogging tool that allows short messages sent over the Internet. The short messages are called Tweets. Twitter is a great way for a business to communicate to a wider client base quickly. The following is a YouTube present to help you to understand about Twitter:
[Twitterand Wikipedia]TweetDeck is a platform that controls all Twitter and Facebook accounts in one place using columns. You can also from your TweetDeck account receive and send tweets. [Twitter] You can gain access to TweetDeck in three ways:
This is my last reflective activity for assignment 1 so I decided to do the following question:
“Discuss how libraries (or a professional setting of your choice) might make use of online applications and productivity tools, and what impact might they have on front-of-house services and behind-the-scenes work? Talk about the benefits and potential risks”
[Mary Axford and Crystal Renfro] For libraries to stay relevant in society and with the emergence of Web 2.0 applications, they have to change the way they interact with their clients. Before Web 2.0, libraries only had to worry about books, papers, magazines and card catalogues. The emergence of Web 2.0 has caused a wave of new online application and productivity tools so that now libraries have a role in teaching lecturers, clients and students how they can use the new technologies in their everyday lives. [Allen Alrich] With the changes in the way we interact with each other, universities and libraries need to move towards the mobile web using smartphones.
Digsby; HootSuite; Seesmic; Socialite and TweetDeck
Benefits:
Way for a library to manage all their social media sites in one place
Mobile Web
[Alan Aldrich] With the surge of mobile devices, especially the smartphone, libraries had to change in the way they present their services. With Smartphones, the Mobile Web came of age.
Benefits:
Clients have access to a library catalogue anywhere and at any time.
Library staff can contact clients quickly and more efficiently for example, “the book you requested has arrived”
The following graph shows how the clients of the University of Cambridge Library use smartphones to get access to library services:
Note Taking Applications
[Mary Axford and Crystal Renfro] The Internet is providing more information for clients and librarians than they can handle. Therefore, note-taking applications were born:
Evernote
MS Onenote
Simplenote
Springpad notebooks
Benefits:
Able to store answers and question for other colleagues on the reference desk
Great way for staff to store information for their research projects
Recording information for future events for the Library e.g. journal articles, photos
Storing information for Conference presentations
You can store information that could be useful for libraries’ collection development
The following YouTube video talks about Evernote and Libraries:
Risks
Security issues with personnel and professional information
If Libraries are depended upon computers what happens if the IT system goes down, we still need to have access to pen and paper and books
Clients would never personally use the library
Library networks are more susceptible to a virus
Potentially online applications give managers the ammunition to close libraries down to save money, for example, Campbell Newman has closed down a number of libraries since coming to office.
Online applications and productivity tools will have an impact in the way libraries provide services to their clients and the way library staff perform their duties. Libraries do provide an important service to society and as Librarians; we have to ensure that online applications and productivity tools do not take away the role of libraries.
BEST PRACTICE FOR LIBRARY SOCIAL NETWORK PRESENCES
WHAT ARE THEY?
At the beginning of the week, I did not understand or know what “Best Practice for Libraries Social Network Presences” is so I started to do same research on the topic. Using Google, I found a number of good sites that talk about “Best Practice” so I formulated them into a Bundlr. (See bottom of the page)
ACCURATE – Information that is place on your social media sites must be accurate and with no spelling errors.
CONFIDENTIALITY –Make sure all personal information that is place on your social media sites is safe.
COPYRIGHT –Follow copyright laws.
FEED BACK – Allow your users and staff to give you feedback on any issues that affect your social media sites.
MARKETING – For people to use your social media sites you must promote them on your web site.
MONITORING – Your social media sites should be monitored every day to make sure that the conversations on your sites are appropriate to your brand.
PLANNING – Understand the needs of your users, before setting up any social media site. As Zaana Howard stated in her interview with Kate Davis that is not worth setting up social media site for example “Second Life” if your users will not use it.
UPTO DATE – Do not set up any social media sites if you are not prepared to keep them up to date.
UNDERSTANDING –Make sure everyone who is involved understands your brand.
WELCOMING – Have the layout of your social media sites friendly and welcoming and always write in the first person. Make sure your social media sites have personality.
Social Media is great way to get your community to interact with each other but do not forget to promoted your brand face to face with your users also.
WHAT ROLE DO YOU THINK BLOGGING AND TWEETING WILL HAVE IN YOUR LEARNING, BOTH IN THIS UNIT & BEYOND IT?
Before I enrolled in this unit I did not realize that blogging and Twitter will have so much influence in my present and future learning. I am so out of my comfort zone but the benefits I will get at the end, out ways all my sleepless nights. [Susan Gunelius] Blogs and Twitter have became part of every ones life due to the popularity of the Internet. The definitions of the main terms :
Blogging- The Physical act of writing a post
Blogger- Posts Author
Blogosphere – Online Community
In my research I found the following sites that were very helpful to me:
[Susan Gunelius] Blogs can also be called web log and are made up of different pages called posts. Posts are were you can discuss issues that you are interested in and this encourages comment from your peers. The following is a YouTube present to help you to understand about Blogs:
TWITTER:
[Lahle Wolfe] Twitter is a micro blogging tool that allows short messages to be sent over the Internet. The short messages are called Tweets. Twitter is great way for business to communicate to a wider client base quickly. The following is a YouTube present to help you to understand about Twitter:
Blogging and tweeting will have a great role in my present and future learning and the reasons are:
I am an external student so at times I do feel isolated. To have access to the unit blog to ask questions of my peers and lecturers is a great way to learn
It is also a great way for me to learn, as an external student, to have access to my peer’s blogs. It is a way for me to see if I understand what I am reading by seeing what my peers are doing with their blogs
I also learn from my peers and lecturers when they leave comments on my blog
I am unable to support and encourage my peers face to face, but I can by using twitter, such by saying: “How you going”.
Blogging and tweeting are a great way for me to continue my professional learning in this course and following my lecturers such as @katiedatwork
CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF CONTINUING TO USE EITHER A BLOG OR TWITTER AFTER THIS SEMESTER?
Time is always an issue but I can see myself continuing to use Blogs and Twitter after this semester. The reason for this are:
My friends in Brisbane and I can continue our book club using a blog,
Blogs and twitter are also good tools for me to continue my professional development. On my blog I can link articles of interest, conferences I attended and copies of my assignments. On Twitter I can follow other organizations such as:
My name if Jenny Diggens I am new to the world of blogging and twitter. I am returning to study after looking after my parents to increase my knowledge and skills of technologies and libraries. I have recently moved to Melbourne from Brisbane to be closer to my brother and his family. I am starting to wonder if I am biting off more than I can handle but I do find it rewarding when something works on my blog or twitter. Good luck everyone I hope you all do well. I going out now to find a book “blogging for dummies” to help me to polish my blog, so happy blogging everyone and bye for now.
Jennifer Diggens 