This presentation was give at the Health Services Library Groups conference for medical librarians in April 2013.
In the presentation I covered current trends in the use of social technologies to build visibility and awareness of medical library services. This presentation whilst develoed for public sector libraries for example medical libraries in universities and hospitals is also relevant for private sector organisations.
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Review your analytics to understand what device people are using to
access your online content and develop a plan to ensure it is accessible
1. Is Your Marketing Mobile Ready?
The device we choose to use is often driven by the context including
when we search and where we are searching from
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3. 2. Invest In Your Home Base
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We can benefit from social platforms but remember that they
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Build support for social media and develop your social media guidelines
Build capability in your organisation through training and mentoring
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3. Establish And Educate Your Team
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It is essential that we plan our content marketing online and offline to
include visual elements – this will also help encourage online sharing
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Turn Information And Data Into Infographics
Tools to help you create infographics include
Piktochart, Infogr.am, PowerPoint and PicMonkey
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Can You Create Short Form Content?
Share memorable stories on Cinemagram for Android,
Twitter’s Vine app or Instagram videos
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Could You Create Interactive Images And Guides?
Using Thinglink.com you can integrate links into an image
to make your content interactive and embed it on your website
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5. Make Your Content Easy To Share
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If you have developed great content enable it to easily be shared from your
website and using platforms that enable others to embed your content
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Do You Make It Easy For People To
Share Your Content?
Tools include ShareThis and AddThis - add share links to
relevant pages on your website and to PDF documents
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Use Platforms That Enable Sharing
Platforms such as SldeShare enable people to embed
your content on their sites and share with their networks
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6. Don’t Ignore Google Plus
The importance of your Google Plus Page should not be
underestimated especially when in relation to local search results
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Social curation tools include Delicious,
Eventifier, RebelMouse. Scoopit and Storify
7. Use Content Aggregation And
Curation Tools To Maximise Impact
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Libraries are curating content on platforms on Pinterest sharing
ideas for books to read, activities for young readers and events
Explore Emerging Platforms To Reach New Readers
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Ensure risk management and crisis management plans to take into account how you
can use social technologies both as an early warning system and for communications
8. And Finally – Remember To Integrate
Digital Communications
Into Your Communications And Crisis
Management Plans
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