Professional Social Media: Beyond the Buzz

• Brian Huffman (Law librarian) and Megan Kocher (works at academic science library)
  
• slides are here
• handout is here
• goals of social networking: connect, share, expand networks
• check out slide w links to evaluate/monitor your online presence
• to do: spend more time on LinkedIN...look for resume creation link...(pdf)...also add some more content (slideshare link for eg)
• to do: spend some more time on Google+...flush out my profile, connect with more people
• to do: look at Hootsuite closely...use for monitoring twitter for eg.
• also tweetdeck and ping.fm
• interactions and conversations are key
• check out "Doing social media so it matters" book
• to do: claim our lib locations on FourSquare...would add to info from app use to get an idea of how many of our peeps are using smartphones / are interested in mobile services...and add a link to our airpac, app page ...consider "specials" for Mayor / frequent visitors etc (eg. tbpl swag)...can also leave tips