The wrap-up: meetings and responsibilities

We met on September 20, October 19, and November 9. At each meeting, we discussed the research and preparation that we were going through prior to our presentation. Overall, the duties were split thus:

Rose - contact for West Valley Library branch, information fill-in of Facebook profile and group (events, contact info, picture, etc.), research on how libraries use Facebook

Me - construction of Facebook profile, construction of Facebook group, blog construction, research on how libraries use Facebook

Beth - construction of Facebook profile, construction of PowerPoint, research on how libraries use Facebook (majority)

I think that's about it as far as a recap of how we put together the presentation. Anything we need to add?

Final PowerPoint done!

OK ladies, it's done -- the final PowerPoint document is complete. I e-mailed it to you since Google Docs can't handle its fabulousness. :)

Facebook in libraries - a(nother) real-life example!

At the library where I work, we have our outreach/marketing guy working specifically with social media. He has attended a training/seminar on all the different types of social media that libraries use, including a lot of stuff that I hadn't heard of before...and Facebook! Because he was less familiar with Facebook-- and there were a lot of questions from others at our staff meeting on Monday-- I was able to pitch in with some information that we've looked at during the preparation for our presentation! It was really exciting to know that Facebook is something that is valuable for many types of libraries, that connect with many types of patrons (the one where I work is a special library, where we work with customers who are federal grantees; the one we're presenting is, of course, a public library). Anyway-- not important, in a direct way, for our presentation/project, but a great example to reinforce the awesomeness of Facebook! :)

Presentation Outline

Hey guys!
Here is our brief outline of our presentation in regards to what we discussed at our meeting on Sunday. Let me know what you think and what changes need to be made. I have also emailed you this in a word document format if it's more convenient.
I highlighted the information that needs to be changed or added in red.

Outline of the presentation on 11/15/08

1. Introduction –Megan
2. What is Facebook? –Megan
3. Facebook poll- Megan

*add a poll about the class using any other social networking application*

4. How libraries and librarians use Facebook-Megan
5. Professional development/Idea Sharing- Beth
6. Internal Groups-Beth
7. External Groups-Beth
8. Facebook Pages vs. groups- Beth
9. External Outreach (split into 2 different slides with screen shots)

*Instant messaging will have a screen shot of another library’s Facebook

*Marketing will have a screen shot of the West Valley GROUP page -Rose

10. External Outreach-Applications-Rose

11. Other search applications-Rose

12. INSERT Screen shots from West Valley Profile here –Rose

*The screen shots I was thinking about are the home page, the profile page, events (maybe 1 or 2, and the friends page* Is that enough or do you suggest anything less or more?

13. Real Life Examples-Rose

14. References

15. Questions

As of now I need to send Beth the following screen shots

1) Facebook of another library

2) West Valley Group Page

3) West Valley events (from group page)

4) Home Page

5) Profile Page

6) Friends Page

Cool Website

hi guys!

I was looking through the LibrarianInBlack Website and I found this website about Facebooks for libraries. It has a lot of interesting information, but i wasn't sure if we should include this in our presentation or do we have enough information for the time allotment we are given?

http://www.davidleeking.com/2008/10/09/what-can-you-do-with-a-facebook-page/

iLibrarian on Facebook use and apps

As I'm preparing for my presentation tomorrow by reading through my assigned blogs (I have about a million entries saved in my Google Reader!), I found a few entries on iLibrarian about the best Facebook apps for librarians and the hottest Facebook groups for librarians. This, I think, adds to the case for keeping the individual page for the branch-- so that these apps and groups can come into play, making the library a more "active" participant in Facebook. What do you guys think?

Meeting Sunday

Hi!

I know we had discussed in our previous meetings that we should have one of our meetings through Elluminate and I was wondering if you wanted to do this for Sunday? This way we can practice uploading and presenting through Elluminate.

Also, I have begun to add the November programs on the West Valley group as events.