1. Using Social Media Professionally
You mean it’s not just cat photos?

2. The Tweet a Fart Chair
• You will need:
– - Office chair
– - Squidbee TX/RX pair
– - 1/8" piece of acrylic
– - 50K trimpot
– - Natural gas sensor
– - Solid hookup wire
– - Soldering setup
– - Laser cutter (or saw and drill)
– - Razor blade
– - Screwdriver set
– - Drill
– - Nuts and bolts (or screws)
– - Pliers
– - A staple gun
– - Python
– - A Twitter account
– http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Twittering-Office-Chair/

3. More Professional Uses for Twitter
• Make existing professional relationships stronger
and more intimate.
• Get questions answered.
• Expand your professional network
• See what people are interested in.
• Create an ad hoc back channel at conferences.
• Learn important news.
• http://gigaom.com/collaboration/eight-ways-
twitter-is-useful-professionally/

4. Institutional Use
– Do treat Twitter as a conversation rather than a
broadcast medium.
– Do search Twitter daily for mentions of your
institution.
– Do follow everyone who follows you.
– Do post approximately once a day, or up to as many as
five or six times a day.
– Don’t let the account go inexplicably quiet for
extended periods, and don’t overwhelm people with
too many posts
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may09/Milstein.shtml

5. Personal Use
• Twitter Netiquette
– Provide your name, avatar and a short bio
– Be social
– Give credit
– Don’t use twitter for chatting or personal
conversation
– Your post should not span through multiple
tweets

6. Continued
• Follow, unfollow and block whoever you wish
• Do not follow everyone who follows you
• Use hashtags, but do not overuse them
• Provide enough information
– http://webdosanddonts.com/15-twitter-
netiquette-rules-you-must-know

7. Other Professional Networks
• Google Plus
– Fast growing
– Lots of Librarians
– More intelligent than facebook

8. Slideshare
• Absolute necessity if you are presenting
• Requires minimum interaction
• Works with linkedin

9. Linkedin
• Most professional of the bunch
• Good for job hunting
• Good for finding prospective employees
• Easy to build large professional network
• Set it and forget it

10. People to follow
• G+
– Sara Houghton
– Big list from Debbie Ohi
• https://plus.google.com/115121110877145330939/posts/5a
PMJu9wnSN
• Twitter
– Nicole Henning (@nic221)
– Marshall Breeding (@mbreeding)
– David Lankes (@rdlankes)