social media question

[Polly-Alida Farrington]

Thank you for mentioning webwhacker. I'd been trying to remember that name. Sorry I have no advice to add, but this brought to mind using webwhacker back in the mid 90s. Setting up a demo of our new campus wide information system on that 'new fangled web thing' for the uni board of trustees, in a building with no Internet connection. Webwhacker worked great. Unfortunately the computer and projector didn't. Old fashioned screenshots printed  on plastic overhead sheets and an overhead projector to the rescue. Thank goodness the dean didn't fire me! Sorry for the digression off-topic!

Polly-Alida Farrington

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On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:57 PM, David Whelan <davidpwhelan at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> I'm not sure any of this qualifies as a "library technique" but I think you could use some of the backup tools out there to make copies of your social media content.  For example, I use Backupify, which will create copies of your Facebook & Twitter accounts (https://www.backupify.com/products/personal-apps-backup).  What I don't know is how much it grabs for Facebook (just your stuff, other posts on your Wall, etc.).  I am not a Facebook user but I know it's got an export tool; I don't know how you use what you export though.
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> If they are willing to set up a regular process to go and proactively grab content (backups would be scheduled), there are some easy to use tools.  Twitter seems to have generated more tools than other sites.  I use AllMyTweets (http://www.allmytweets.net/ ) but it has a limitation (3200) so you need to grab the content every so often.  Visitmix's Archivist is a downloadable tool ( http://visitmix.com/work/archivist-desktop/ ) that can grab an archive as a downloadable spreadsheet.  The paid version is necessary to grab everything (also a Web version:  http://www.tweetarchivist.com/ )  This site has some interesting links that would apply to specific social media (http://socialwebnerd.com/blog/20-tools-to-backup-your-social-media-content/).  
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> I like Wilhelmina's suggestion of WinHTTrack.  If it's a Web site and you don't have access to an export function (like in Wordpress sites), it can be a great way to grab everything.  I've also used Blue Squirrel's products (WebWhacker and Grab-a-Site:  http://www.bluesquirrel.com).
> 
> I guess it would be "library-ish" to create incremental backups or to organize it for quick recovery; you'd also have issues about formats (and whether images or style sheets or other elements would be usable after archiving/downloading).  It may depend up on how long they want to keep the information.
> 
> Good luck!  David.
> 
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> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:23 AM, <dlgreen2 at fhsu.edu> wrote:
> I received a question from the person in charge of University Relations and I'm unsure how to answer. 
> 
> "Is there a library technique to preserve FHSU's history on the web or through social media? Much of the historic information UR uses came from yearbooks and campus papers. Now that those are gone, we need to be sure to preserve our history in a different way." 
> 
> What are others doing in relation to such a question? Or Is anything being done at all? Any ideas or comments would be helpful. 
> Thanks, 
> Deborah
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> Deborah L. Green, MLIS
> Digital Collections Librarian
> Fort Hays State University
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