I have been looking at the David Lee King blog about social media in libraries suggested by Rob Coers on 23 dingen. There are a few home truths there I think for all librarians trying to use Library 2.0 efficiently.
What we have to do I think is attract "friends" to us librarians who are using social media. (In the first place I mean professionally). So the following points I find especially relevant:
- Avoid only connecting with colleagues in your own organisation or in other libraries. We should be targeting our own public.
- Find friends from the library and through people you meet through the library i.e. users or potential users.
- Use twitter and facebook to keep these people informed about what is happening in the library in particular. But don't forget that you - a person - are doing the informing not the library organisation
- Be personal. People interact with people not organisations.
- Inform regularly (and try) and be interesting!
- React to as many people who want to communicate with you - well that's fairly obvious.
- And finally remember to connect facebook to twitter to your blog to the library website etc. and publicise in person in the library itself. In a nutshell: connect as much as you can.
And now two great artists performing a terrific song by Hugo Wolf: Der Feuerreiter op tekst van Eduard Mörike
