I mentioned in my reading round-up for July that a lot of the article I have read over the past month have been about Google+. There are links to the best and most useful articles at the bottom of this post. What I want to share with you here is my first reaction to Google+ and my experience one month in. And that can be described in one word… Meh! I just don’t get it, or perhaps more accurately I just don’t need it. I got an invite quite early on and set about creating some circles. What I found [...]
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Ideas for library inductions
Earlier this week I attended an exchange of experience event on inductions at De Montfort University. It was organised by Kaye Towlson and based on the TeachMeet model. The session began with speed networking and thought share bunting, or analogue Twitter, where we could easily share our ideas throughout the event. My contributions which came out of conversations during the speed networking were: less is more first impressions are vital; we need to be seen as friendly and approachable so students will come back and ask questions learn by doing We were also able to share examples of our marketing [...]
Blurring the boundaries
Recently I read a blog post by Brian Herzog, the Swiss Army Librarian, about Being personal and professional on Twitter. It got me thinking about how I often blur the lines on Twitter and whether I should try to keep it more professional. I think Brian is right, it’s easy to remain professional on the library accounts. Whether you’re tweeting under the library’s name, replying to a comment on the library Facebook page or posting on a library blog, it’s business. I really liked how he defined his aim when updating library social media accounts: My goal is to be [...]
