Teens and Library 2.0

How we mix the two and come up with great results!

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The Teen Portal to the Library:

Is our BlogThis is where we post:

Library Events

Videos

Blog Posts

Polls

Book Lists

It is our Hub

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Why a Blog?

• It’s free (http://www.blogger.com)

• It’s easy to update.

• It’s searchable.

• Your users can bookmark or subscribe to it.

• You can embed videos easily from Youtube and other video sites.

• Your teens can COMMENT.

You can tag the entries

Commenting adds ConversationFor Them:

•Teens get to weigh in on their views.

•Letting them have a say shows that we are interested in what they have to say and that we value their opinions.

For Us:

•We have an audience of loyal readers who can give us feed back.

•Teens tell us what they like and what they don’t like.

•We are able to ask them questions in a place where they are more likely to feel comfortable answering them.

Keep the Conversation Going with Videos

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Teen Volunteer!

We have a YouTube ChannelIt’s free

It does all the file converting for us

It’s easy to embed in our blog

We get to use their video player

Teens know how to use it

Teens can COMMENT on a video, orIf they really wanted to, make a video response.

Our Middle School Tab kids are Also in on the Fun.

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Bringing the Conversation to Where the Teens are: Facebook

About half of USteens (and growing)use Facebook.*

*http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/reports/nielsen_howteensusemedia_june09.pdf

We echo the content that is on the blog here.

This post directs people backto our blog.

On Facebook the Teens can Talk Back to Us

These are a fewThese are a fewof our friends.of our friends.

They can leave us comments

They can like ouritems.

All of our posts show up when they

check their “news feed.”

Add Photos to the ConversationThese photos are from our Flickr Page

We use Flickr to store our PhotosIt’s Free

Lots of people can have access to all the photos.

We can embed them inthe blog.

We can tag them, and so can our teens.

Drawback: ours looks dated because we haven’tkept up with it and the photos are not updated.

Teens can comment onthem.

Putting it All Together on the Blog

This is embedded from our YouTube

page.

Here is a feed from our Facebook page.

Here is afeed from ourFlickr account