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A new future is coming to education. Online shopping, searching and social networks came first-education is next. OCLC's newest user perceptions study, iAt a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries/i, explores how empowered consumers, fueled by economic incentives, are using online learning platforms and MOOCs to set new expectations for education-and for libraries. The report explores the behaviors, perceptions and motivations of online learners: how they are evaluating the cost/value trade-offs of higher education, how they are using and succeeding with online education-and their use and perceptions of the library.

I found this on Carole Guert's twitter account. Thanks Carole! It links through to the latest OCLC report. A good comparison to the older version noted in our Modules. Thought you would be interested Gavin.

Focus is on creating meaningful, and shareable content for schools. The focus is on how to use social media and create social media rather than focusing on negative and how not to behave. Schools needs to consider both social media for schools to market the ethos of the school but also how social media is used in schools by staff and students.

"It is actually possible to use Pinterest for useful tasks, though it may not seem so at first glance. Here's how."

Very helpful thank you! I've had a Pinterest account for a while but never really knew how to use it effectively. Cheers!

Great article Heather, Thanks!

"An 11 minute documentary looking at the way social networking has changed the world and developed social communication. The documentary takes a look at several aspects of social networking including the way it has changed celebrating birthdays. I will also be looking into how social networks have altered the way children spend their days compared to how they would have done before Facebook was around. "

The International Librarians Network presents a post by Kim Tairi on personal branding. If we are going to contribute to social media it's important that we consider how we 'brand' ourselves.

One industry that can do really well on Instagram, but that often struggles with Instagram, is the non-profit sector. These organizations are typically ripe with content to share but either don't know how to go about sharing it or worry about how much to share.

"Admit it. Sometimes, your Twitter life is messy. You follow hundreds of people - maybe thousands. Staring at your timeline is about as intelligible as reading a stock ticker. How do you bring organization to your Twitter life? How do you rise above the confusion, cut through the complexity, and become a superstar on Twitter? You learn these 15 Twitter hacks. Once you pick up on these power user features, you'll become a Twitter ninja in no time."

Abstract: Social media are popular stages for self-expression, communication and self-promotion. Rather than facilitating online identity formation, they are sites of struggle between users, employers and platform owners to control online identities - a struggle played out at the level of the interface. This article offers a comparative interface analysis between Facebook and LinkedIn. While Facebook is particularly focused on facilitating personal self-presentation, LinkedIn's interface caters towards the need for professional self-promotion. And yet, both platforms deploy similar principles of connectivity and narrative - strategies that can be succinctly revealed in recent interface changes. These changing digital architectures form the necessary backdrop for asking critical questions about online self-presentation: How are public identities shaped through platform interfaces? How do these features enable and constrain the sculpting of personal and professional persona? And what are the consequences of imposed connectivity and narrative uniformity on people's online identities?

The article provides guidance how to write social media policy. A definition of social media, library goals and objectives and contact information should include in the policy. The six standards include sensitivity, privacy, information, responsiveness, introductions and teamwork guides the policy. The policy should accord industry standards and with supporting documents. A well prepared policy facilitates library staffs to manage and library patrons to use social media tools in safe.

This article is detailed to show that the important of the social media policy and how to decide it. The examples are included. Matching policy to company goals are mentioned. It is important to remember S.P.I.R.I.T (Sensitivity, Privacy, Information, Responsiveness and Introductions) as a guide for all customer interactions. How to implementation and what supporting documents are include are very important.

Interesting article. I agree with this - I worked in a children's hospital for 8 years as the Information Specialist and one interesting note was the changing addictions and information needed by the psychologists and that was on social media, internet addiction and how that affects mental health. Thanks for sharing!

This is another case study that looks at why nonprofit organisations may utilise social media and how they may build a social media policy. In the resulting research, the study outlines how NPOs view social media, what they use it for (i.e. marketing, awareness, etc.) and the barriers it presents. Also, it examines how social media can be used as not only a means of communication, but also as a means to interact with stakeholders in a deeper conversation.

"View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/clay-shirky... While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter, and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics."

This article can be the guideline for how to set the social media policy in step by step and the attention of creating the policy. It included how to decide the good policy, content of the policy are suitable for audience. What things need to pay attention is important for setting the policy efficiently. In addition, links of the social media policy examples are provided.

A little dated (uploaded in 2013) so missing some info on the new outliners features, but otherwise a good little introduction to the hows and whys of using Diigo.

Thanks, I found that useful - now I should use it more. I have been using just my "favourites" for keeping webpages, but I can see scope there for much better organisation. I wonder how other people keep and organise web pages. Obviously we're sharing them in this context as well.

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Great article about how to incorporate social media into schools.

This slideshare by Judy O'Connell encourages teacher librarians to become competent social media users. The twenty first century learning environment is constantly changing and teacher librarians must adapt. The internet is now a participatory medium and social networks are integral in our lives. School libraries need to be involved in social media and it begins with teacher librarians being active users within their with personal learning networks and their personal lives. Judy provides advice for teacher librarians on how to get started with policy planning, examples of best practice, tools and strategies for implementation. Specific instructions are provided for using Facebook and Twitter in school libraries.