Facebook for Non-Profits

Here is a link for recorded session of Getting The Most Out Of Facebook For Your Nonprofit, which might be of value for some of you.

Facebook Weekly Winners

Our weekly Facebook winners in the following categories for last week are: By the Numbers: New Likes:  Whitney Library – 15 New Check-ins: Summerlin Library – 45 Talking About This: Whitney Library  - 36 Largest Total  Reach:  Windmill Library – 2,659   By the Percentage increase: Talking About This Largest % Increase: Sunrise Library – [...]

Libraries Claimed on Facebook

We have started claiming more of our libraries on Facebook.  So far we have Windmill, Whitney, Clark County and Laughlin Library. Please encourage staff or patrons to like the pages so we can claim a unique name for the Library.  We need 25 Fans to get the name.  Clark County and Windmill libraries already have [...]

Got a Scary Story to tell?

Share your scary story on our Facebook page.  No Facebook  profile is needed. Visit http://facebook.com/lvccldlibrary and select the Scary Story tab on the left. You have to use one of the 7 opening lines to begin the scary tale and it can’t be any longer than 1000 characters.  We’ll post the stories on the same [...]

Library Facebook Fan Page and Twitter

The Virtual Library has been working hard on setting up the Library’s Fan page for the past two weeks.  Today, we seem to have things in place, at least we hope so.  Our URL is a bit long so to get a vanity URL before September 1, we need at least 30 Fans.  We would [...]

Social Media for Seniors

I attended the following webinar and thought some of you might like to view it.   Webinar Name: Social Networking with Seniors Date: 7/7/11 Presenters: Allan Kleiman # of CE hours earned: 1.5 hours ————————————- The PPT slides will also be available on our Archived Webinars page (http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/workshops/webinars/archived.html) within a week.

Sharing Links on Event Details

Over a week ago we added the ‘share’ buttons to the detail page of each event.  This is the same share button which can be found in the Library Catalog.  It allows patrons to share an event to email addresses, tweet it, add it to their Facebook page, etc. The idea, is to provide a [...]

Monday Morning Smile

“I’m on the computer and I can’t feed my zoo.” Patricia Gould Fort Walton Beach Public Library Fort Walton Beach, FL In just six years, Facebook has propelled social networking from being an online network of U.S. college students into an everyday habit for 500 million people of all generations around the world. The company [...]

10 Technology Ideas Your Library Can Implement Next Week

An article about 10 technologies to implement in a library.  Some can’t be done in a week but this may be worth discussing which ones would benefit our patrons. Some we are already doing! More about “10 Technology Ideas Your Library Can …“ Article in American Libraries Magazine.