how to manage your library’s social networking identities
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Introduces librarians to tools such as social networking browsers or aggregators to streamline your library’s feeds and status updates all at once rather than piecemeal to make your forays into social networking more effective and efficient. Compare available tools to see which fits your social networking needsTRANSCRIPT
How to manage your library’s social networking
identitiesMarketing Matters
Tennessee Library Association 2010 Memphis, Tennessee
3-3.50 Director’s Row
Rebecca Tolley-Stokes, East Tennessee State University
Managing identities
Introduce librarians to tools such as social networking browsers or aggregators to streamline your library’s feeds and status updates all at once rather than piecemeal to make your forays into social networking more effective and efficient.
Compare available tools to see which fits your social networking needs
tools
Social networking browsers, social networking aggregators, social interaction manager, event aggregators, etc.
Four most popular
Flock is a web-browser on par with Firefox & downloads to your pc
Minggl is a social interaction manager; a toolbar that downloads to your pc
Fuser & Gruvie are web-based services
2 web-based services
GruvieFuser
gruvie
gruvie
Interacts with facebook, myspace, yahoomail, gmail, linkedin, and twitter.
More interaction promised with blogger, hotmail, flickr, digg, imeem, youtube, friendster, bebo,wordpress, meetup, imagestock, photobucket, etc.
Requires adobe flash player plugin download & compatibility issues with Google Chrome
gruvie interface
fuser
fuser
Only supports email with US language settings
Seamless email account aggregation and management for one-stop inbox from these services: aim, aol, comcast, earthlink, exchange/outlook, excite, gmail, hotmail, juno, lycos, etc.
Few social networking sites: Myspace, friendster, & linkedin
fuser
fuser
fuser
flock
flock
Flock is powered by Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, etc.)
Integrates & delivers webmail, photos, videos, and updates from favorite sites in 12 languages
20 online services: facebook, digg, gmail, youtube, myspace, flickr, twitter, worpress, photobucket, blogger, yahoo mail, delicious, blogsome, livejournal, xanga, typepad, aolmail, picasa, tinypic, etc.
flock features
flock
Enter email to download 12.9MB download
Download, set up, and launch to desktop
turn on flock
Logging into accounts via flock
Making flock work for you
minggl
minggl
Compatible with firefox & IE, 1.6MBOne-click access to user profiles on various
2.0 sites from the toolbarMass-send/update status to each network as
well as friends across multiple networks.Works well, unobtrusiveTacky banner ads, some default settings
annoying but easy to customizeFiltering allows user to rank users/feeds by
importance/relevance.
minggl
minggl
minggl
minggl
How they compare
install email fb twtr Linkn Mysp Flickr Delici Wordpress
Squid FF Plaxo YT
flock X X X X X X X X X
fuser X X X X
gruvie X X X X X
minggl X X X X X X X