Jen Bakewell

Children’s and Youth Librarian

Matthew Jelfs

Business Advice Officer Business Insight

Birmingham Libraries 2.0

Birmingham Libraries 2.0

• Policy and Strategy

• Enthusiastic and innovative individuals

• Dipping a toe in the water!

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YouTube – businessandlearning1

YouTubeUse - 10 business clips

- Great way to deliver information differently

- It’s free!

- Compatible with other sites

Advice - Tag clips with keywords

- Buy your own digital equipment - Film everything

- Advertise the channel everywhere

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Birmingham Libraries 2.0

Young Libraries NING

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Young Libraries NING• For staff to network and share ideas.• Customisable look and feel• Privacy settings• Lots of positive feedback • 66 members so far• Discussion and collaborationIssues - access

- privacy - off-counter time

Twitter – BhamBusiness

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TwitterUse - Ideal for providing information quickly

- Good advertising tool- We follow relevant organisations - New followers are joining daily

Advice - Secure your name- Be selective about who you follow - Use Twitter little and often- Be interesting, engaging and economical

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• An annual festival featuring the best children’s authors, illustrators, storytellers and poets

• Social networking presence established in 2009• Bebo, My Space and Facebook investigated• My Space and Facebook chosen as festival

authors were on there

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Birmingham Libraries 2.0

My Space – marketed at Teens

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My Space

Content - Festival events for teens- Existing video/audio by performers- Blogs about events- Books by festival authors

Friends - Authors- Friend requests sent to teens in area who list reading, poetry etc as a hobby- My Space link added to library website

and in Young Readers printed programme

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• Facebook – marketed at Parents & Carers

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FacebookA ‘page’ not a profileContent - All festival events

- Pictures of performers- Wall posts about what was going on- Photos of events uploaded during festival- Video of Book Bash

Friends - Authors- Library staff and friends and... - Facebook link added to library website

and in Young Readers printed programme

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Young Readers Social Networking Presence

• Lots of positive feedback• Facebook more successful (124 fans Vs 28 friends)• Twitter very successful – reaching key local contacts

Issues - interactive content & moderation- branding- what happens after the festival?- Network access for staff- who will manage the content?- building on success – Facebook Ads?

Jen Bakewell

Children’s and Youth Librarian

Matthew Jelfs

Business Advice Officer Business Insight

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