Are youyou a part of the conversation?

Social Media and Public Libraries

PLA Spring Symposium Meg Canada, Sr. Librarian Hennepin County Library

Hallmarks of Social Web• Flexibility• Content creation• Radical trust• Personalization• Trial and Error (or

Success)

Read is to Write on the Web

as Observe is to Participate is in the Library.

http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/blog_on_the_side/2006/04/web-2.html

New Tools = New Expectations

Online:• eCommerce• Wikis• Blogs• Comments• Tagging• Photosharing

Everyday:• Pilot projects• The Long Tail• DIY Movement• Transparency• Self-reliant users• “Experience

Economy”

Tell Me Some More About this Social Media Thing

Who’s talking to us? About us? With us?

Seen on Twitter.com

Responding

Listening Post

http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.html

Where do I listen?

Where do I listen?

Let’s put together a simple listening post.