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If the younger generation is any indication of how people will live, work, and interact in the future, today's teens are media omnivores who will set new standards for social communication.

Libraries need to understand what their users are doing on the internet in order to interact with them and market themselves successfully.

Interesting article regarding mature-age students and Twitter in developing personal learning networks

This one is out of date now, it was updated last year but I can't find the new version (chances are it's on an intranet somewhere). If you are curious it's just as military speak as you'd expect and does cross reference other policies. They cover the official and personal communication by Australian defence personnel and contractors, including librarians employed in Australian military libraries. Of note, defence personnel cannot edit wikis (not an official form of communication).

Useful article for assessment item 2.

Some apps to look out for in 2016

I like their summary for staff guidance - "Don't do anything stupid"

It is good that organisation update their guidance for staff. Shows that they care and that they are aware of changes in the SNS world.

"Updated guidance to help us get the most out of social media is being distributed to staff in BBC News."(Hamilton, 2015.). Keep our library policy current. Given the cycle of social media tools change rapidly, policy should be under constant review, especially policy refer to application or platform.

With an online presence now paramount, many libraries, archives and museums have created, or are looking to create, a social media policy; one that will dictate an accepted level of interaction and outline how practitioners within these cultural heritage institutions use social media. But is the use of social media policy in direct defiance of the purpose of social media? And more importantly, is it practical for cultural heritage institutions to have one?

This article was aimed to report how successful of developing the social media policies at the State Library of Queensland, Queensland State Archives and Queensland Museum. The author would like to use these organizations' experiences for encouraging more librarians and other practitioners to develop their own social media policies. It could help to maintain the secuity of information and increase the interactions between the organizations and users that the social media is the good communication tools for them.

Hi, an article in The Australian on how glossy women's magazines are struggling with readership as people go online for their fashion tips. Not related to libraries but shows what a difference the online world is having to our economy. I found it quite interesting. Enjoy...Jacqui if you have trouble with the link just type in article heading and it will come up

NMC Horizon Report > 2014 K-12 Edition Preview - my social media bible.

Found this interesting article on the ALIA Social Media Group- posted by Margie Anderson. Use of social media by the library. Current practices and future opportunities. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/white-paper-social-media.pdf

An interesting article Margaret. I had been thinking the same thing...I sometimes post articles and whilst I do have at least a quick view, I don't always read through to the end. The author calls it the age of skimming. I guess there are multiple reasons for it: time constraints for one. The author mentions how the small size of a mobile phone screen also affects the ability of people to read articles online - and people are increasingly accessing information/social networking sites on mobile phones. So they just skim...Thanks for sharing!

I love this. It is so true. It goes to show you need interesting titles, the important info straight up, pics and/or videos and articles that are not too long.