using blogs, myspace, and facebook to reach your students vincci kwong & julie elliott franklin...
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Using Blogs, MySpace, and Facebook to Reach
Your Students
Vincci Kwong & Julie ElliottFranklin D. Schurz Library, Indiana University South Bend
Librarian’s Day 2007Bloomington, Indiana
June 1, 2007
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What We’ll be Covering
• Blogs– What they are?– How to create one for your library
• MySpace & Facebook– How to use these social networking tools to
reach your students
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Blogs
• Do you know what a blog is?– Blogs are like web pages except they are
easier to edit. With a little practice, anyone can add material to a blog!
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Blogger
• If you are not familiar with blogs, I suggest you try Blogger—www.blogger.com
• Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly
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Blog Software
• There are a lot of different types of blog software available. Some are free, others require a subscription. Some examples are:– Expression Engine [IUSB uses]
(http://www.pmachine.com/)– Moveable Type (http://www.movabletype.org/) and Typepad (
http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/) [same company]– Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) (free)– WordPress (http://wordpress.org/)(free)– LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com/)(has free version)
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How IU South Bend Libraries Use Blogs:
• Our Libraries have 4 blogs. We use Expression Engine for all of them:– Schurz Library News
http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/libnews– One Book, One Campus
http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/onebook/– Learning Resource Center News
http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/lrcnews/index/- Hammes Information Commons
http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/infocomm/
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How We Create Our Blog Entries• We log into expression engine:
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How We Create Our Blog Entries(continued)
We then choose which blog we want to publish in:
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How We Create Our Blog Entries (continued)
We then select what category we want to publish in within the blog:
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How We Create Our Blog Entries (continued)
We enter our information into the forms below, and then publish!
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What the Finished Product Looks Like
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Examples of Library blogs
An excellent list of public, academic and special library blogs is available at the Blogging Libraries Wiki:
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki
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Subject Specific Library Blogs
• Another type of library blog is the issue or subject specific library blog. A few examples are:
– Free Range Librarian http://freerangelibrarian.com/
– Librarian in Black http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/
– PaperCutshttp://papercuts.tscpl.org/
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How to Distribute Your Blog to Readers?
• A RSS (Really Simple Syndication) – a very easy way to
distribute your blog to readers
• How to put your blog out there to rich the audience?– Submit your RSS feed to
news aggregator like Bloglines
http://www.bloglines.com
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Final Thought on Blogs
• Hardest part, as with any new technology, is not so much the technology as creating consistently good material to put up on it
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What areMySpace and Facebook?• Social networking web sites
• Number of users– MySpace: 106 million+– Facebook: 25 million+
• Target audience– MySpace: anyone who is 14+– Facebook: mainly college/university
student, but open to everyone recently
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How to Sign Up For an Account?
• MySpace: – http://www.myspace.com/
• Facebook:– https://register.facebook.com/r.php
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When You Log into MySpace…
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When You Log into Facebook…
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How to Reach Your Students?
1. Look for friends
2. Customize your profile
3. Set up blog
4. Set up photo album
5. Invite friends to library event
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Look for Friends
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MySpace
Profile
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Profile
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Create Blog Entry: MySpace
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MySpace Blog
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Create Note Entry: Facebook
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Note
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MySpace Photo Album
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FacebookPhoto Album
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My Event: MySpace
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Create an Event: MySpace
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Invite People to Event: MySpace
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Want to Know Who is Coming?
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My Event: Facebook
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Create and Invite
People to Event:
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A New Event is
Up!
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Who is Coming?
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Facebook: Post an Item
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Facebook Group
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Questions?
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Presentation Slide
http://www.iusb.edu/~libg/LibDay/blogs.ppt
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Vincci KwongHead of Web [email protected]: HiMffy
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