Blog Tally as of 22 February 2024

    This post tallies contributions and posts by team members. A signficant part of creating this blog was setting it up and having team members customize the blog in some way, whether it was adding a header image, sidebar gadgets (which might be identified as widgets on some other platforms), or putting something on the footer, like a gadget to show users who "followed" the blog. Overall, once the blog was created, each team member's action listed under "Blog Setup and Customization" added to the functionality of the blog website. Posts announcing the changes made along with the links next to the contributors' names are listed here:

Blog Setup and Customization

• Melissa created the blog, inviting the rest of the team to come aboard, changed their status to admins, and set up the blog template.
• A. Lampert added the background image and a gadget to show the blog's followers.
• Shinichi added a subscribe by e-mail gadget and a blogroll gadget in the blog's sidebar.
• Jennifer added a sidebar gadget for Google Translate.
• Nancy added the gadget linking to a survey about "What Are you Reading?"
• Karen added the gadget Links to Social Media.
• Walter Oliwa added Wikipedia header gadget.

   This part here represents posts team members posted, especially early posts about social media or anything instructive about blogging. While these posts add a lot to the blog, these entries are content apart from blog setup and customization.

Posts by Team Contributors so Far... 

• Michele added a link to YouTube video
• Jennifer, "Libraries as Digital Curators" video share and comment
• Shinichi, "Video Share," "Article Share," and "Video Share: YouTube Short"
• Nancy added a link share for "ALA Guidelines on Social Media"
• Walter posted "Libraries and Social Media: How Social Media is a Communications Multiplier and How Libraries Can Help?"

Some posts may show up as team members feel inspired. You can look forward to some focused, researched posts as specific projects for this Library Technology 130 blog, though.

 Walt Oliwa added a post and also added link to Wikipedia.

Libraries and Social Media: How Social Media is a Communications Multiplier and How Libraries Can Help

Libraries and Social Media: How Social Media is a Communications Multiplier and How Libraries Can Help

Walter Oliwa

          Social media is a way people can communicate. In the past, speaking or writing was a way to connect to one other person or maybe in a theater or lecture a few hundred. With books and other print, and radio and tv came along more people could get content, but all depended on taking in content and only few people took the time to respond back. Libraries made books and now the internet available to facilitate communication between many people (Wikipedia). Social media can not only distribute communication to others but form a network of communications. This is what I mean by a “Communications Multiplier.” I take this term from a military term of “Force Multiplier” which means something military which increases the force of one solder to many. Social media increases the communication of one person to a network of people.

          Libraries can use social media in two ways (ALA, 2018). One is to advertise or make known their services to the public, and the other way is to help patrons learn how to use social media. Libraries use their website to let the public know information about them and then link them to services. Libraries usually have available computers for patrons to use with internet available, and libraries can either help people learn to use the internet and give help with social media use or run workshops on learning to use social media.

          Libraries which use social media are recommended by the American Library Association to have a social media policy (ALA, 2018). These guidelines published in 2018, recommend that libraries consider first amendment rights when using social media. If a library only puts out information, without taking comments, it does not have to worry about free speech rights. But if a library has a social media site which takes comments, then it needs to consider first amendment rights. ALA recommends having a clear posted policy.

                                                        

References

"Social Media Guidelines for Public and Academic Libraries", American Library Association, July 2, 2018.

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/socialmediaguidelines (Accessed February 21, 2024)

Document ID: 00eec2Wikipedia contributors. (2024, February 21). Social media. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:31, February 21, 2024, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_media&oldid=120931589508-d906-414b-a9c2-7e123d6f53ff

 

 

Added Links to Popular Social Media Platforms

 Hi everyone,

Since this is a blog about Libraries and Social Media, I added a Gadget Links List to the right hand column that contains some of the most popular Social Media sites. It's a quick way to check your favorite library's social media sites and see what they're up to and how they are using social media to connect with their patrons. I added five links. If you're a contributor to this blog, feel free to add any more that you or your library uses. If you're a reader, please make a comment below.

-Karen

ALA Guidelines on social media

 I added a link to the ALA's social media:

 guidelines: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/socialmediaguidelines

Video Share: YouTube Short: Other Duties as Assigned?

In the previous entry, "Video Share," two options to share a YouTube video were discussed: embed code and making use of the share button to post directly to your Blogger blog. But what if these options aren't available? Or what if you don't want to copy a piece of HTML or click the share button?

 Per Shin's suggestion, I added a SurveyMonkey survey asking What Are You Reading?

I hope this works! Thanks for the suggestion, Shin!