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Finding + TuningSocial Signals

Marcia Dority Baker, University of Nebraska – LincolnRoger V. Skalbeck, Georgetown Law Library

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Facebook: 164Twitter: 144Flickr: 40Google Plus: 12Vimeo: 10Foursquare: 5Goodreads: 2Pinterest: 2Delicious.com: 1Instagram: 0

Social Media Network Linkson Law School Home Pages: 2012

Institutional Blogs Suck

* Also: Facebook Pages, Google+ Sites, Twitter Accounts, Pinterest, Vine Videos, Delicious bookmarks, etc.

Institutional Blogs Suck Struggle for Sustainability

Problem: Professors blog elsewhere. Often. With other authors

Solution: Capture Existing Content.Filter. Package. Publish.

14 Authors; > 1 dozen blogswww.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/blogPosts.cfm

Time vs. Value

• Social software is free like a free

• What is the end goal?

• Why use a particular platform?

• Set-up (time) + maintenance (time) = Worth it?

Twitter Feed Cascade

• Organize relevant Tweets as online newspaper

• Daily edition = always collecting & sharing

• Initial setup & tweaking, then autopilot

All the News that’s Fit to Tweet?

Platforms:TwitterFacebookLinkedInGoogle+ (sort of)RSSInstagramStorifyYouTubeVimeoEtc.

Track:Twitter ListsSearch TermsActivity StreamsHashtagsTwitter DM

Features:Scheduled PostsMulti-platform publishRSS to publishMetrics & Reports

Data as Art

Visual.ly in “Digital Assets in Estate Planning” LibGuide

Example #1: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/ Example #2: www.law.upenn.edu

Tumblr in the Library?

• Micro-blogging + Social Software = Tumblr

• What law libraries using it?

• #lawlibraries or #lawlibrary

Law School Tumblr = Dark Humor & GIFs

Tell a Story…

Storify for Research

Twitter Archiving / Capture / Analysis

• SearchHash• TweetArchivist• Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS)• ThinkUp App

Questions?Tips?

Marcia Dority Baker, University of Nebraska – LincolnRoger V. Skalbeck, Georgetown Law Library

What Else?

• Trello: project management system http://trello.com

• Twivo: anti-spoiler for Twitterhttp://www.indiewire.com/article/a-17-year-old-girl-creates-twivo-a-program-to-save-the-world-from-twitter-tv-spoilers

• Twitter list• Pinterest • Social media policy?• Storify by Chicago-Kent http://storify.com/ChicagoKentLaw