SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP

LEVERAGING ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENHANCE LIBRARY SERVICES

Our workshops in the Social Media Strategies Workshop Series will be Intro Level workshops on popular social media platforms.

We’ll spend a portion of each workshop on the basics, including set-up, and profile optimization, then move to strategy and first steps towards goal-focused use of that platform.

We’d love to give you a peek at what this course covers:

•Social media policies and management

•How to choose a social network 

•How to customize your social media profile

 

SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP
Leveraging On Social Media To Enhance Library Services

Date : 13 September 2015
Time: 2.00 pm -5.30 pm
Venue :  Hotel Pullman, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur.

Register today by visiting our

website at: http://www.ppm55.org

Email: pustakawan55@gmail.com

Facebook: Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia 

Tel/Fax: 03-2694 7390

Program Hashtag Kemerdekaan 2014: DI SINI LAHIRNYA SEBUAH CINTA

 

Unit Pengurusan Koleksi Bahagian Pengurusan Pelanggan, PTAR akan mengadakan Program Hashtag Kemerdekaan 2014 sempena menyambut bulan kemerdekaan yang bertemakan DI SINI LAHIRNYA SEBUAH CINTA

Para pengguna perpustakaan perlu memuatnaik gambar yang berunsurkan KEMERDEKAAN dan dimuatnaik kedalam akaun Instagram masing-masing menggunakan hashtag ‪#‎merdeka‬ ‪#‎PTAR‬

Program ini akan bermula pada 29 Ogos 2014 sehingga 16 Sept 2014

UPDATE!!

Gunakan HASTAG #merdekaptar untuk peraduan ini. terima kasih!

(Repost) Social Media for Researcher

Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work.

photo by: cause global blog

This guide has been produced by the International Centre for Guidance Studies, and aims to provide the information needed to make an informed decision about using social media and select from the vast range of tools that are available.

One of the most important things that researchers do is to find, use and disseminate information, and social media offers a range of tools which can facilitate this. The guide discusses the use of social media for research and academic purposes and will not be examining the many other uses that social media is put to across society.

Read more: Social media: A guide for researcher

Repost: Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening?

by Nancy Dowd

If there are over 1 billion people on Facebook and the Twitterverse can help topple governments, then it only makes sense that libraries would also be using these two social media channels to connect with their communities, right? Well yes and no.

Libraries are using social media, that’s clear. According to Library Journal’s Survey on Public Library Marketing Methods and Best Practices, 86 percent of libraries said they were using social media. The top two social media platforms used by libraries were Facebook (99 percent) and Twitter (56 percent). Pinterest is making some gains, with 30 percent of libraries reporting that they are pinning. 

The problem is that 48 percent of libraries surveyed said they weren’t measuring their efforts at all. While the survey didn’t ask if libraries are getting fans to interact with them, most libraries I have spoken with lately have said they were still struggling with that.

Original source: Library Journal

 

Picture: Google Image

Original link: LibraryScienceList website

 

(visual) Social Media Comparison

source: Pinterest website

(Google Scholar) Finding high-quality content in social media

Abstract:


The quality of user-generated content varies drastically from excellent to abuse and spam. As the availability of such content increases, the task of identifying high-quality content sites based on user contributions -social media sites -becomes increasingly important. 

Social media in general exhibit a rich variety of information sources: in addition to the content itself, there is a wide array of non-content information available, such as links between items and explicit quality ratings from members of the community.


In this paper we investigate methods for exploiting such community feedback to automatically identify high quality content. As a test case, we focus on Yahoo! Answers, a large community question/answering portal that is particularly rich in the amount and types of content and social interactions available in it. 


We introduce a general classification framework for combining the evidence from different sources of information, that can be tuned automatically for a given social media type and quality definition. In particular, for the community question/answering domain, we show that our system is able to separate high-quality items from the rest with an accuracy close to that of humans.


Find more: HERE

How Social Media Has Changed Us?

Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen social media galvanize thousands over politics, create as many industries as it has destroyed, and offer an abundance of visual and audio entertainment. But has all this incredible change actually changed us, or just the world we live in?


Below are some areas in which social media has had lasting, and arguably permanent effects on the ways in which we live. The question is, are these changes all for the better?




Child Literacy.

It stands to reason that children who read and write more are better at reading and writing. And writing blog posts, status updates, text messages, instant messages, and the like all motivate children to read and write. 


Last month, The National Literacy Trust released the results of a survey of over 3000 children. They observed a correlation between children’s engagement with social media and their literacy. 


Simply put, social media has helped children become more literate. Indeed, Eurostat recently published a report drawing a correlation between education and online activity, which found that online activity increased with the level of formal activity (socio-economic factors are, of course, potentially at play here as well).


read more: HERE

Enhancing academic reputation with new social media

Program	:	“Enhancing academic reputation with new social media”
Tarikh	:	06 Jun 2011 (Isnin)
Masa	:	10.00 pagi - 11.00 pagi
Tempat	:	Auditorium 2, iLQAM
Penceramah	:	Prof Casey Chan, Adjunct Professor at YLL School of Medicine & Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore

Learning objectives:
At the end of this workshop you should be able to: 

·Set up an academic blog focused on your research interest and public outreach 
·Learn how to use Twitter and Facebook to increase your post- publication publicity 
·Create discussion groups on Facebook 
·Use WizFolio to share references with your colleagues and the public 
·Use WizFolio to upload your publications to the Internet.

Synopsis:

Social media has expanded beyond personal connectivity into mainstream branding and customer outreach for all the major consumer brands. Its impact on political change is self-evident. Partly due to unfamiliarity and partly due to the association of social media with disrepute academics have been slow to embrace this medium.

In this talk, the role of social media in academic reputation will be discussed. For academics, social media is a new media is a new way to rapidly disseminate their research work and enhance their online presence. The use of the new media has to be carefully managed to avoid pitfalls.

In this workshop, tips will be given on how to utilize conventional social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to integrate with the new generation of reference managers. In addition to discussions on CiteULike, Mendeley and Zotero, Prof Chan will demonstrate the use of Wizfolio to create an online presence by coupling with the new media. 

About the Speaker:

Casey Chan is an adjunct professor at the YLL School of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is active in teaching and research in both faculties, and regularly mentors the younger academic staff and graduate students on their career development. 

Prof Casey Chan

WizFolio, the journal reference management software he has developed, is widely used by undergraduate and graduate students for their final year projects and graduate theses. Prof Chan has led the effort to integrate WizFolio with resources from Scholarly Portal, a consortium of 21 university libraries in Canada. 

Original source: JPSTM blog