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Delivering Your Messages in Today’s Online Environment
American Library Association, PR Forum
Kevin T. Kirkpatrick
Executive Vice President
Sunday, July 12, 2009
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Agenda
• How is the Internet (and social media, specifically) changing the way we communicate with one another?
• How are libraries using the Internet and social media?
• Where do you start?
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Impact of Social Media
• Changing the way we communicate with each other, and how we connect with organizations we care about
– Social networking has surpassed email as the most popular activity online.
• It’s huge, and growing fast
– Facebook >200 Million monthly active users
– Twitter >6 million users, growing at 1382%
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Pros/Cons of Social Media
Benefits Challenges
• Incredibly cost effective versus traditional means of communication
• Faster, more timely• Ability to customize audiences
and content• Easy to update, revise• Can be more environmentally
sustainable (e.g., reduced printing costs)
• Creating relationships!
• Can be overwhelming• Growing fast, but still not
dominant• Some audiences not yet
engaged (degree of disproportionality)
• Requires commitment (e.g., updating, responding)
• Sacrifices certain degree of control over content
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Types of Social Media
• Communicate (blogs, podcasts, video, photo)
• Connect (social networks, texting, instant messaging, microblogs)
• Collaborate (Wikis, consumer-generated media, ratings, social news)
• Collect (tagging, social bookmarking, search)
• Customize (RSS, widgets, virtual worlds)
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The Basic Idea
• Groups based on affinities and expertise
• Profiles serve as identities, share info about you
• Connections build the networks – friends, family, co-workers, partners
• Sharing via opinions, information, interests, stories, photos, videos
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Your Website
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Putting a “Face” on Your Library
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Job postings
Schedule changes
Announcing events
Connecting to other resources
Promoting Holdings
Starting discussions
“Tweeting” Your Library
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Wave of the Not-so-distant Future …
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First Things First: Your Website
• Update the content (frequently!)• Refresh the look and feel of the site• Tell stories/communicate impact• Add photos, photo essays• Increase opportunities for interactivity
(take action, email list, tell-a-friend, etc.)• Add contact information
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Tell-a-friend
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Then, When You’re Ready…
• Join the conversation– Appropriately
– Carefully
– Transparently
• Try one thing right away– Update your website
– Add “tell-a-friend”
– Create a Twitter account
– Start a Facebook page
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Ask Yourself
• What’s your unique value?• Why would people want to talk
about you?• Where are your audiences? Are they
already doing something? Saying something?
• What can you offer to the world? How can you be a resource?
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Keep in Mind
• Social media works best as a two-way conversation
• Great for customer service; less so for PR• Need to stay on top of it
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