WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH TELL US? WHAT TRENDS ARE COMING DOWN THE PIPE? AND HOW DO WE MANAGE IT ALL WITH SMALL STAFFS AND SMALLER BUDGETS?

Curtis R. Rogers, Ed.D., Communications Director

Southern Social Networking SummitGreenville, SCJan 6-7, 2010

What does the research tell us?

Did you know?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

Vooks?

ENRICHING OR DISTRACTING? Readers of Vooks can check out hyperlinks and videos embedded in the online tales, making for a quite different reading experience.

from As books go beyond printed page to multisensory experience, what about reading? By Monica Hesse, Monday, December 28, 2009

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122701973.html

What is augmented reality?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coeiHrZ0_DA

from Harvard Business Review

1. Social media begins to look less social

2. Corporations look to scale3. Social business becomes serious

play4. Your company will have a social

media policy (and it might actually be enforced)

5. Mobile becomes a social media lifeline

6. Sharing no longer means e-mail

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/11/six_social_media_trends.html

How SCSL uses Social Media

www.statelibrary.sc.gov

“How do we manage it all when there is not enough time in the day and we have no money?” Use the Just do It!

principle. Stop doing what no

long works. Implement social

media by doing two things:1. Setting up a Twitter

account2. Setting up a

Facebook account Three things to

remember:1. Education2. Testing3. Keeping up

Resources for Keeping Up

www.commoncraft.com provides 3 minute training videos. For FREE!

Set up a FREE account on www.bloglines.com. Find blogs or RSS feeds of interest to you and subscribe to them. Then read your bloglines every morning like you would the newspaper.

Thank you!

Curtis R. Rogers, Ed.D.Communications Director

SC State Library803-734-8928

crogers@statelibrary.sc.gov