The Use of Social Media in the Library- Findings from the Twitter Party

Tue Jul 8 16:48:02 EDT 2014

YW, Aalia.
Two hours is about the same amount of time and effort that it took me, I
think. Thanks for the slide about editing functions. I'm not archiving any
tweet conversations at present, but if I need to again I will take you up
on your offer of help.

So far as I can determine, Storify won't allow me to search for
conversations, so I can't show you any of the ones I curated. I used their
search engine to search for #gamemooc and found quite a few individual
tweets, so it appears that somebody is still archiving their weekly
tweetchats.

These were part of Gamesmooc, an ongoing constructivist mooc about using
games in education. I believe 2013-2014 was its third year. It was founded
by several people who are members of a World of Warcraft guild that's
limited to educators.

The tweetchats take place on Wednesday nights during the school year and
are are usually very active. To avoid confusion with another twitter
account, they use the hashtag #gamemooc. I was a member for the first two
years, but I only storified a couple of the chats because I wanted to
organize them by conversation topic and that took so much time. Most of the
people who've done it just archive a linear transcript of the tweets, in
the order they were received.

Have a great day!
Jean

Jean Hewlett
Librarian, Santa Rosa Campus
University of San Francisco

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Oosman, Aalia <Aalia.Oosman at tandf.co.uk>
wrote:

>   Hi Jean
>
> Thanks so much for your lovely email. It probably took about 1-2 hours to
> drag the posts onto Storify from the Twitter feed and a further 2 hours to
> add text and categorize that one of my lovely  colleagues helped me to do.
> I have attached a slide highlighting the editing functions but if you would
> like me to go through this, I can arrange a conference call where I can
> share my screen with you.
>
> Your #gamemooc webchats sound fab. Can i ask for a bit more info about
> them? Why and how you put them together as it sounds so interesting and I
> would love to hear more.
>
> Thanks so much
>
> Aalia
>
>
>
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf
> of Norma Jean Hewlett <hewlett at USFCA.EDU>
> *Sent:* 01 July 2014 20:42
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] The Use of Social Media in the Library- Findings
> from the Twitter Party
>
>   Hi
>  I'm curious how much time it took you to create this Story and whether
> Storify now includes any tools that make it easier.
>
> I created similar summaries for some of the #gamemooc webchats last year,
> and putting the tweets into a logical order was quite a job.  I don't think
> there was any way to add subheadings then, or at least I never found one.
>
>  Your story looks great! I had totally given up on Storify as an
> archiving tool, but perhaps it's time I took another look. Thanks!
>
>  Jean Hewlett
>  Librarian, Santa Rosa Campus
> University of San Francisco
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Oosman, Aalia <Aalia.Oosman at tandf.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>  Apologies for cross posting.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Happy Social Media Day!
>>
>>
>>
>> Coinciding with social media day (#smday), we thought you might be
>> interested to learn more about our findings from our Twitter party on the
>> use of social media in the library. We have created a ‘Story’  via Storify
>> of our Twitter Party:
>> https://storify.com/LibraryLantern/use-of-social-media-in-the-library#publicize
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you to all those who joined us to share thoughts on:
>>
>>
>>
>> •         The challenges and opportunities social media presents to the
>> library community
>>
>>
>>
>> •         Social media as a teaching tool - the role social media plays
>> in information literacy
>>
>>
>>
>> •         User engagement & perception of using social media in the
>> library
>>
>>
>>
>> •         Accessibility– how Social Networking Sites are being promoted
>> in the library
>>
>>
>>
>> •         Measurability - the impact of social media
>>
>>
>>
>> There were lots of useful and practical tips on using social media in the
>> library that were mentioned at the party that we have scheduled for release
>> once every hour today on #smday via @librarylantern so we hope you find
>> these helpful.
>>
>>
>>
>> We will  be consolidating our findings from the Twitter party, various
>> focus groups and an online survey to inform our White Paper on the use of
>> social media in the library. For more information about the White Paper,
>> visit:
>> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/white-paper-social-media-in-the-library-best-practice.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> If you are interested in getting involved with the research, we would
>> love to hear from you.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>
>>
>> Aalia Oosman
>>
>> Communications Manager Library & Media Relations
>>
>> Taylor & Francis Group
>>
>> Email: aalia.oosman at tandf.co.uk
>>
>> www.tandfonline.com
>>
>>
>>
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