Technology Showcase

Andrea SnyderEnoch Pratt Free Library

Cooperating Collections

In Maryland

Grants Collection @ Pratt

Overview:

• Introductions

• Technology assessment & planning

• Online tools

• Social media & emerging technologies

• Now what?

Introductions

What we just did

• Social Networking – IRL (In Real Life)

• Tagging – of sorts

• Met some people we didn’t know

• Had fun!

Technology Planning & Assessment

Questions to Ask

• What’s your goal of using social media?• Who are your users?• Who are your donors?• Do you know where they are online?• How can you reach them?• What is the best approach for your organization?

• Others?

Activity:

Benefits of technology

Barriers to technology

How does your organization utilize technology?

Online Tools

• Website

• E-newsletter

• Online giving– Networkforgood.org– Paypal– Facebook causes

Web 2.0 / Social Media

What the heck is it and what does it mean for me?

1.0 vs 2.0

Have you used Web 2.0?

Ways to use 2.0

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Multi-Media

• Reviews / Opinions

• Entertainment

People are talking about you.

Do you know what they are saying &

Are you talking back to them?

• “Ego” Searches– Google Alerts, Twitter Search,Technorati

• Blogs

• Social Networks– Facebook, MySpace, Ning, LinkedIn

• Micro-blogging– Twitter

Collaboration

• Wiki– Wikipedia, wetpaint, PBWiki

• Social Bookmarking– Delicious, Stumble Upon

• Google Docs

• Google Reader – can share feeds w/friends

• Opinion site– Yelp, epinions

Multi-Media

• Video Sharing– YouTube, edutube

• Photo Sharing– Flickr, photobucket, Zooomr

• Livecasting– Ustream.tv, skype

• Music Sharing– Last.fm

Tips

• Have fun!!!!

• Experiment

• It’s ok to fail – learn from it

• Check out 23 Things

• Don’t set up an account, do nothing and expect it to be a success

Activity:

How can your organization use Web 2.0 technologies.

How can you use them?

My Challenge to YouChoose one technology and try it out.

Call, E-mail or tweet me and let me know how it went.

grc@prattlibrary.org(410)396-5320

Twitter: Grants_pratt

Links:

http://delicious.com/epflslrc_grc/web2.0

Presentation Slides:

http://tinyurl.com/czxrjn

Andrea Snyder

Grants Collection

Enoch Pratt Free Library

grc@prattlibrary.org

(410)396-5320