Comments on: Library Web Quest week 8 Facebook http://andrewey.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/library-web-quest-week-8-facebook/ A blog about librarianship in Further Education Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:51:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: andrewey http://andrewey.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/library-web-quest-week-8-facebook/#comment-24 andrewey Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:23:19 +0000 http://andrewey.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-24 Jo, thanks for the comment - yes I can see the advantage of knowing your readership. We already have a college page on Facebook, with a link to the library blog on it but perhaps we need a separate library page as well. Jo, thanks for the comment – yes I can see the advantage of knowing your readership.

We already have a college page on Facebook, with a link to the library blog on it but perhaps we need a separate library page as well.

]]> By: Jo Alcock http://andrewey.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/library-web-quest-week-8-facebook/#comment-23 Jo Alcock Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:02:11 +0000 http://andrewey.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-23 Hi Andrew, I don't imagine that having a blog presence in Facebook will boost readership necessarily, but I always think it's worth having it there as it's so easy to do. Personally, I'm interested to find out who reads my blog so that's the main reason I've added mine (although I only have one reader on there so far!). You don't have to be a blogger to add the Facebook Blog Networks but I guess you do have to already be interested in reading them otherwise you wouldn't add the application. As for uses of Facebook in libraries, we have a Facebook page for <a>University of Wolverhampton Learning Centres</a>. It's mainly used as an avenue to help promote our services - students can join as "fans" which means they'll receive updates in their Facebook account. It can also act as a portal as it contains links to all the relevant sections of our website. Hi Andrew, I don’t imagine that having a blog presence in Facebook will boost readership necessarily, but I always think it’s worth having it there as it’s so easy to do. Personally, I’m interested to find out who reads my blog so that’s the main reason I’ve added mine (although I only have one reader on there so far!). You don’t have to be a blogger to add the Facebook Blog Networks but I guess you do have to already be interested in reading them otherwise you wouldn’t add the application.

As for uses of Facebook in libraries, we have a Facebook page for University of Wolverhampton Learning Centres. It’s mainly used as an avenue to help promote our services – students can join as “fans” which means they’ll receive updates in their Facebook account. It can also act as a portal as it contains links to all the relevant sections of our website.

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