Keynote & Social Media talk

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/ilf6

Handouts & Files

• Social Media at Small Libraries Slides - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format Keynote - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Social Media Links

• Think like a start-up white paper
• Broadband Adoption and Use in America & NY Times summary [pdf]
• Pew Research Center's reports & August 2010 report about adoption slowdown
• Competing media messages image
• IRS Advancing E-file Study
• Mapbuilder
• Local history: Flickr Commons and Bloomington photo, women scientists, Phineas Gage photo
• Tech support: Apple communities
• Flooding: VT Flooding facebook page, VTResponse
• ALA Think Tank
• Kimball library strategic plan.
• Popular library accounts using Twitter
• Flagler oral history project
• Extended Firefox information
• County of Brant Library: Home page, digital collections, Our Brant Wiki, Cemetery category & page
• Many more real-world digitzation stories.
• DIY Book Scanner & instructions, Book Liberator instructions
• Other good examples on the Library Success Wiki and "13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology"

Photo Credits

• Indiana State Building. World's Columbian Exposition. 1896. on Flickr
• Rural Training School Seelyville IN

Free Things

• Web 2.0 Freebies
• Dreamhost free hosting
• Flickr for Good
• Video hosting: YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, Facebook
• Blogging software: Wordpress, Movable Type, Blogger, Twitter
• Cheapie "digitzation"
• Turning RSS into: email, a box on your website, a widget
• Making a calendar with an RSS feed - RSS calendar
• How to help someone use a computer pamphlet
• Further suggestions: Library Tech Talk, LibSuccess, Web4Lib mailing list