Social Media: Collaboration,

Communities and CPDAnabel Marsh

@AnabelMarsh

anabelmarsh@googlemail.com

First steps - Blogger

Keep on bloggin’ - WordPress

Next step: Twitter

From talking to yourself -

- to conversation

- to community

Glasgow Library Tweetups

• #GLTU1 Jan 2012 -#GLTU13 Jul 2014

• Socialise

• Network

• Learn

• (And have fun!)

Reading and piping…

Travelling and shoogling…

Food!• #GLTU2 at GWL. Runs on tea

• #GLTU12. Giant naan

#libcampgla

Library Camp Glasgow 2

What is a Library Camp?

• First – Michigan, 2006. First UK – Birmingham 2011

• Unconference / Open Space

• Free (or low cost)

• No pre-existing agenda / speakers. Discuss ideas / problems attendees care about

• No hierarchies

• Participation, collaboration, proactive learning, sharing best practice, networking

Sessions

#GreatBritishBadgeOff

MmITS Minute of Madness

#23Librarians

England, Wales, N. Ireland

Hashtags and Twitterchats

• #Chartership • #UKlibchat

Storify

Where next?

• 23 Librarians – could you be one? anabelmarsh@googlemail.com

• Library Camp 3? Who? What? Where?

• Advocacy? “The event, almost by default, was a good showcase for the sheer economic value and civic worth of what librarians and libraries can offer the various publics of lay, civic and business. IMO there is scope here for more broadcasting to other audiences of these attributes.”

anabelmarsh.flavors.me

“I started something – so can you” (Ka-Ming Pang)

Image credits

• Slide 5 c/o id-iom on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/id-iom/6871086722/

• Slide 6 c/o Cobalt on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/7217055290

• Slide 7 c/o Solofotones on Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/solofotones/2352718330/

• Slide 11 Naan c/o @macmarshahttps://twitter.com/macmarsha/status/443826610215862272/photo/1

• Slides 14-16 c/o Lynn Corrigan @lynncorrigan

• Slide 19 c/o Kejava on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/14296351@N00/9741003119/

• Thanks to @ijclark for sourcing 5-7 and 19

• All other images my own