Comments on: Librarians explore Social Media and Networking Tools

By: Connie Crosby

Connie Crosby — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:25:24 +0000

Thanks so much for the write-up, Jeremiah!

Ian, definitely there are a number of librarians out there learning about these tools well before the average citizen so we are ready for it when they arrive to ask us about them. Thus, you have a whole “Info Island” of librarians working in Second Life to see how virtual worlds will apply to libraries. And librarians are in many other spaces.

We can definitely all learn from one another!

Cheers,
Connie

By: Steve Matthews

Steve Matthews — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:04:40 +0000

One of the often overlooked things about Librarians and the Internet is the length of time we’ve been using it. Our online experience often pre-dates the graphical web, and we were networking (often with each other) via the text based tools — email, hytelnet & gopher — back in the day.

I also think leveraging corporate content for marketing purposes comes very easy to many of us, and with quality content being such a commodity, we’re wielding a lot of linking power.

By: ian lurie

ian lurie — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:00:26 +0000

I sorta wonder if librarians couldn’t be teaching US about social media and networking? Isn’t a library the original (at least for the last 200 years) social media tool?…

By: Jason the Content Librarian » Blog Archive » Librarians discover web strategist and vice versa

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:43:46 +0000

[...] Jeremiah Owyang has connected with another law librarian, Connie Crosby, who posted a comment on the web strategy Facebook wall. He has also connected with Stephen Matthews, Michael Porter, and me. [...]

By: jeremiah_owyang

jeremiah_owyang — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:46:04 +0000

sriram

Drop a link or slurl when you get one!

By: sriram

sriram — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:18:51 +0000

hi jeremiah, i actually know a friend in stockholm who works for the national library and he has plans to bring into second life. pretty awesome stuff.

By: Connie Bensen

Connie Bensen — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:17:53 +0000

Awesome post Jeremiah, it motivated me to add some more resources in my own blog post! I don’t have to take up acres here on yours

Great stuff! keep it coming!

By: » Learn about Social Media with Librarians Connie Bensen: My Conversations

» Learn about Social Media with Librarians Connie Bensen: My Conversations — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:12:24 +0000

[...] timely post on what a librarian from Toronto is teaching jogged my memory! She was instructing at the University of Toronto, The Social Networking Tools: [...]