[Web4lib] Facebook

[Nicole Engard]

Lisa,

Does your website have an RSS feed or multiple feeds?  You can set up
the NOTES app on your page to import your RSS feed.  See this page of
mine:

http://www.facebook.com/kohails  -- comes from a Yahoo! PIpe:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/nengard/kohablogs

You can also use the Networked Blogs App and have it post your blog
posts to you page like I do on this page:

http://www.facebook.com/librarymashups -- comes from
http://mashups.web2learning.net which I pulled into the Networked
Blogs App: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=9953271133&ref=mf

I'm CCing the entire list in case others ask the same question :)


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:52 AM, L Cohn <lcohn at bplnj.org> wrote:
>
> That's interesting.  We have a facebook page....How do you set up the Facebook account to pull information from the website?
> Is that an application?  Thanks,
> Lisa
>
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> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>
> Date:  Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:46:41 -0400
>
>>I don't think anyone is asking libraries to replace website with
>>Facebook - just supplement their websites with Facebook.  In fact when
>>I teach Facebook I always say to think of it as an additional way -
>>not the primary way - to connect with patrons.  You can also set up
>>your Facebook page to pull content from your library website so that
>>they both have similar information giving patrons the option of which
>>site they'd like to visit.
>>
>>Nicole
>>
>>On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Mitchell, Michael
>><Michael.Mitchell at brazosport.edu> wrote:
>>> What are the advantages of Facebook over Web pages on the library Web
>>> site? I'm afraid I really don't understand. I just don't see anything
>>> special there. I'm really asking, not trolling.
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Mitchell
>>> Technical Services Librarian
>>> Brazosport College
>>> Lake Jackson, TX
>>> michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
>>> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Leo Robert Klein
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:22 AM
>>> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Facebook
>>>
>>> John Fereira wrote:
>>>> Christine Zeitler wrote:
>>>>> One of the academic libraries at which I work is attempting to decide
>>> if
>>>>> they want to use Facebook to interact with the students.
>>>>
>>>> I think that the more important question here is whether students want
>>>
>>>> to use Facebook to interact with libraries.
>>>
>>> Good point but increasingly it seems as if Facebook is more an entry
>>> point for various types of communication, including friends of course,
>>> but also professional and personal interests.
>>>
>>> I mean, just looking at my own list, I've got the Chicago Historical
>>> Society, a couple of my old schools and something called 'Static FBML'
>>> whose meaning I honestly can't remember.
>>>
>>> Assuming a similar collection (adjusted for age) on the part of our
>>> users and I don't think it's too exotic if the library starts banging on
>>>
>>> their Facebook door as well.
>>>
>>> LEO
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