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17 Nov

Posted at 18:00h in Library, Technology by
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This post follows on from an earlier post about the use of Facebook Pages for Libraries. There have been a number of further developments since then both internally and externally. Internally, our Facebook page has gradually increased interest in terms of the number of fans it has. We currently have over 200 fans - not a massive amount but not bad without any formal marketing yet. I've had verbal feedback from some students who feel it is a good way to be kept up-to-date with Learning Centre services and resources as they use Facebook regularly. I'll be writing a progress report...

09 Dec

Posted at 13:32h in Library, Technology by
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Firstly, a brief apology for the extended time period since the last post, I've been mega busy with work, study and preparing for Christmas (as well as spending a week in Scotland which was more of the relaxing than busy variety!). If you're interested, I'll be adding photos of our Scotland visit and a trip to London yesterday to my Flickr and Facebook accounts shortly. Anyway, back to the purpose of this post. Since I first started investigating how we could utilise Facebook for our library users it's had it's fair share of issues and hoops to jump through, but it...

12 Nov

Posted at 17:34h in Library, Technology by
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Facebook have finally created a section for organisations to create a page - woohoo! Groups have been possible on Facebook for quite a while, but from my experience these are not well used. You have to actively visit the page to see any updates, and in today's age of RSS feeds and e-mail subscriptions this means that people very easily forget about them - I know I do! Facebook Pages now allow organisations to create a page on Facebook and customise it (pretty much like an individual profile but you can have numerous administrators). People can then add themselves as "Fans" and...