Mod: Social Networking & LibraryThing

Things to Read:

• Time Waster: Social Networking for Bookworms, from Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2006. Short link: http://tinyurl.com/fk7s3
• A Book Lover’s MySpace, from Library Journal. Short link: http://tinyurl.com/ynlsrl
• About Facebook: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080107/melber
• Social media for everyman? Not so sure: http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/01/social-media-fo.html
• A guide to Twitter in Libaries: http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/a-guide-to-twitter-in-libraries/

Things to Explore/Skim/Review:

• Social Networking Slides
• http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080114/facebook-the-entire-60-minutes-segment/
• A Library Using Ning: http://www.lisjobs.com/forum/yaf_postst68_Real-world-interview-tips.aspx
  

• Video:

For more on social networking, see the Common Craft video “Social Networking in Plain English” below: