Social Networking and the Penrose Library

Joseph Kraus

Penrose Library

Science and Engineering Librarian

April 3, 2009

Presentation at the CoASL Spring Workshop

Note

This slide show is at: www.slideshare.com/jokrausdu

Question

How do Kindergarteners learn?

Answer?

Playing with toys and games Trying things out Experimenting Watching, observing, touching and reading Having fun

What is Penrose using and doing?

Cool Tools Page http://library.du.edu/FindIt/ResearchGuides/rg_main.cfm?rg_id=313

Twitter Facebook LibX Toolbar Blogs Encore tagging A wiki as an Intrazone (not viewable by the public) LibraryH3lp chat tool (will be using soon) Website redesign (before Fall 2009)

What are the results of the social networking? Not sure yet… We have 230+ fans in Facebook, 58+ in Twitter Beth Kanter does a lot of research on “How

Nonprofits Can Use Social Media”. Businesses want to use social networking for

marketing and building customer relationships. See these 87 books, reports and more.

What am I personally using?

FriendFeed -- http://friendfeed.com/jokrausdu Delicious -- http://delicious.com/jokrausdu Blogs -- http://www.nuthingbut.net/ Twitter -- http://www.twitter.com/jokrausdu Facebook -- http://du.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20204459 Photography sites -- http://www.flickr.com/jokrausdu and

http://picasaweb.google.com/jokrausdu/ YouTube -- http://www.youtube.com/jokrausdu

Questions?

Lots of ways to get a hold of me… Email – jokraus@du.edu,

swish@nuthingbut.net Phone – 303-871-4586