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Microblogging and Lifestreaming in Libraries Microblogging and lifestreaming applications like Twitter, Tumblr, and Friend Feed are all around you and your users in everyday life. In Microblogging and Lifestreaming in Libraries, author Robin M. Hastings presents a practical primer to help any library transform these cutting-edge, budget-friendly services into highly effective professional tools.

Written specifically for LIS professionals, Hastings’ start-to-finish guide explores the ins and outs of the most popular microblogging applications, and covers everything from selection to implementation to evaluation. You’ll find easy-to-follow technical tips for setting up feeds, linking to other sites and services, and searching, as well as best practices for community building, marketing, and promotion.

Hastings provides a complete glossary for using important “Twitter Lingo”, as well as a guide to recommended print and web resources for further related reading. As you’ll find with each of the other nine Tech Set guides, the discussion is accessible to the novice who wants to learn the technology and how to implement it, as well as the seasoned pro charged with translating “best practice” examples to the local setting and quantifying the results.

ISBN: 978-1-55570-707-1. 2010. 6x9. 125pp. $55.00
About Robin M. HastingsRobin Hastings
Robin Hastings is the Information Tech Coordinator for the Missouri
River Regional Library. She is responsible for the physical
networking, web sites and social networks for the library as well as,
of course, those "other duties as assigned". She's presented at
conferences all over the world about the library's Library Learning
2.0 program and using mashups in libraries as well as about using social networks to collaborate.
Robin has authored an ALA Tech Report on Collaboration 2.0 and this book, and has written articles for the Library Journal and Computers In Libraries as well as other publications.


What people are saying about Microblogging and Lifestreaming in Libraries:

This is a wonderful introduction to microblogging services. No other book on this subject is written specifically for a library audience.”- Michael Sauers, Technology Innovation Librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission and author of Searching 2.0

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