Facebook: Library Presence and Personal Privacy

Last year I created a Facebook page for Tararua Library. I confess I haven’t been been that impressed or happy with how it works and the traffic it garners, but that isn’t enough for me to totally drop it yet. Maybe time will pick up traffic. What concerns me though is the privacy issues surrounding [...]

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Social networking

I’ve been reading a very interesting book entitled “Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom; how online social networking will transform your life, work and world” by Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta. The book is divided into three parts – identity, status and power. With regard to identity the authors outline the tension between our personal and [...]

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Libraries and Facebook

I recently read a blog entry about libraries’ use of social networking sites and the mention of Facebook.  I then realised that I had only recently become a “fan” of one library’s Facebook page.  This made me want to search out more to see what was out there and to see how libraries were using [...]

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