1. Using Blogs, MySpace, and Facebook to Reach Your Students Vincci Kwong & Julie Elliott Franklin D. Schurz Library, Indiana University South Bend Librarian’s Day 2007 Bloomington, Indiana June 1, 2007

2. What We’ll be Covering Blogs –What they are? –How to create one for your library MySpace & Facebook –How to use these social networking tools to reach your students

3. Blogs Do you know what a blog is? –Blogs are like web pages except they are easier to edit. With a little practice, anyone can add material to a blog!

4. Blogger If you are not familiar with blogs, I suggest you try Blogger— www.blogger.com www.blogger.com Blogger is a web- based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly

5. Blog Software There are a lot of different types of blog software available. Some are free, others require a subscription. Some examples are: –Expression Engine [IUSB uses] (http://www.pmachine.com/)http://www.pmachine.com/ –Moveable Type (http://www.movabletype.org/) and Typepad (http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/) [same company]http://www.movabletype.org/http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/ –Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) (free)http://www.blogger.com –WordPress (http://wordpress.org/)(free)http://wordpress.org/ –LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com/)(has free version)http://www.livejournal.com/

6. How IU South Bend Libraries Use Blogs: Our Libraries have 4 blogs. We use Expression Engine for all of them: –Schurz Library News http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/libnews http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/libnews –One Book, One Campus http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/onebook/ http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/onebook/ –Learning Resource Center News http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/lrcnews/index/ -Hammes Information Commons http://ee.iusb.edu/index.php?/infocomm/

7. How We Create Our Blog Entries We log into expression engine:

8. How We Create Our Blog Entries (continued) We then choose which blog we want to publish in:

9. How We Create Our Blog Entries (continued) We then select what category we want to publish in within the blog:

10. How We Create Our Blog Entries (continued) We enter our information into the forms below, and then publish!

11. What the Finished Product Looks Like

12. Examples of Library blogs An excellent list of public, academic and special library blogs is available at the Blogging Libraries Wiki: http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.n et/links/index.php?title=Welcome _to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.n et/links/index.php?title=Welcome _to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki

13. Subject Specific Library Blogs Another type of library blog is the issue or subject specific library blog. A few examples are: –Free Range Librarian http://freerangelibrarian.com/ http://freerangelibrarian.com/ –Librarian in Black http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/ http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/ –PaperCuts http://papercuts.tscpl.org/ http://papercuts.tscpl.org/

14. How to Distribute Your Blog to Readers? A RSS (Really Simple Syndication) – a very easy way to distribute your blog to readers How to put your blog out there to rich the audience? –Submit your RSS feed to news aggregator like Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com

15. Final Thought on Blogs Hardest part, as with any new technology, is not so much the technology as creating consistently good material to put up on it

16. What are MySpace and Facebook? Social networking web sites Number of users –MySpace: 106 million+ –Facebook: 25 million+ Target audience –MySpace: anyone who is 14+ –Facebook: mainly college/university student, but open to everyone recently

17. How to Sign Up For an Account? MySpace: –http://www.myspace.com/http://www.myspace.com/ Facebook: –https://register.facebook.com/r.phphttps://register.facebook.com/r.php

18. When You Log into MySpace…

19. When You Log into Facebook…

20. How to Reach Your Students? 1.Look for friends 2.Customize your profile 3.Set up blog 4.Set up photo album 5.Invite friends to library event

21. Look for Friends

22. MySpace Profile

23. Facebook Profile

24. Create Blog Entry: MySpace

25. MySpace Blog

26. Create Note Entry: Facebook

27. Facebook Note

28. MySpace Photo Album

29. Facebook Photo Album

30. My Event: MySpace

31. Create an Event: MySpace

32. Invite People to Event: MySpace

33. Want to Know Who is Coming?

34. My Event: Facebook

35. Create and Invite People to Event: Facebook

36. A New Event is Up!

37. Who is Coming?

38. Facebook: Post an Item

39. Facebook Group

40. Questions?

41. Presentation Slide http://www.iusb.edu/~libg/LibDay/blogs.ppt

42. Vincci Kwong Head of Web Services vkwong@iusb.edu vkwong@iusb.edu AIM: HiMffy Julie Elliott Coordinator of Public Relations & Outreach jmfelli@iusb.edu jmfelli@iusb.edu AIM: jmfelli Contact Us