BG Library Social Networking
- we have 100 people who “like” us
- our wall consists of a feed from the UL Blog
Who administers this page?
Kate, Colleen, Linda R., Gwen, Dan (LITS student)
Who can update this page?
Kate, Colleen, Linda R., Gwen, Dan (LITS student)
What kind of page is this?
This is a “group” page. Shows up as a “local business.” Could this say non-profit or organization instead?
Do our news items show up in the BGSU FB page?
No, but we could write on the BGSU FB page’s wall.
Can people “fan” the page so our news items show up on their walls?
This is not an option anymore. I think you have to be a paid advertiser to do this.
What appears on this page?
On the landing page, just the Wall, hours/location and chat widget. The tabs are:
- Wall (UL Blog feed)
- Info (hours)
- RSS/Blog (UL Blog feed)
- Links (hours, virtual tour, each floor, BGSU FB page, ILL and UL Wikipedia entry)
- photos (6 albums – are these feeds?)
- boxes (search and chat widgets).
Ideas to think about/discuss:
- On main page, we could add a photos box, with the option for users to add their own fan photos
- let’s let people write on our wall!
- instead of just having the UL Blog feed to the FB page, we should post items specifically for FB and try to make them interactive
- let’s rename the “boxes” tab and call it “search our stuff” or something
Other Facebook pages to look at:
- Hennepin County Library: http://www.facebook.com/hclib?ref=search
- I like how each wall post was written especially for FB and links back to a page on the library site
- I like how they ask questions to start conversations with their users
- I like how one of their tabs is “find books”
- Bowling Green State University: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bowling-Green-OH/Bowling-Green-State-University/26573965003
- If you “like” this page you can write on the wall. However, they do get a lot of spammy things.
- UMKC University Libraries: http://www.facebook.com/UMKC.Libraries
- their picture is funny and features a person. All of their profile pictures are these of staff – they have 27.
- if you “like” their page you can write on its wall
- their posts are specifically for FB
- Our music library: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bowling-Green-OH/Music-Library-at-BGSU/359103293441
- 144 people like them!
- they post specifically for Facebook
- if you “like” their page you can post on their wall!
http://twitter.com/bglibrarian67
- We have 79 followers but they are mostly other local organizations or people trying to sell things – NOT our users
- our tweets are news items from the UL Blog
Who administers this?
Kari
Who can update this?
Kari
Things to think about:
- Like Facebook posts, the best tweets are written as tweets.
Other Twitterers to look at:
- Kansas City Public Library: http://twitter.com/KCPubLibrary. They use HootSuite to manage their tweets; they link their tweets to other Twittering organizations (@NYTimes), they use tinyurls to link back to their website, they use hash-tags (#poetry) to hook up their tweets to others about a similar subject, and they tweet a LOT. Over 3,000 followers.
- Yale Law Library: http://twitter.com/yalelawlibrary. They use HootSuite, they seem to tweet more during the school year, their tweets are very minimal but a) use categories (Reference, News & Events) when appropriate and b) include tinyurls; they have over 3,300 followers.
- Harvard Library: http://twitter.com/Harvard_Library They use a variety of methods to post, have 578 followers (these seem to be people), tweet several times a week. I like their red background! Good branding.
UL Blog
- Google Analytics can provide statistics on this
Who administers?
Kari
Who can post?
Kari, Gwen, me
Things to think about:
- We need more interactivity on our Blog. We should have our posts to be attributable to individuals, allow comments and answer comments. Could Kari monitor the comments?
- We should link to our Flickr photos on our blog.
- Could we have more people blogging? Perhaps one other person from LTL, one from special collections, and one from music? If all of us posted just once a month then we would have at least one new post a week.