Introduces librarians to tools such as social networking browsers or aggregators to streamline your library’s feeds and status updates all at once rather than piecemeal to make your forays into social networking more effective and efficient. Compare available tools to see which fits your social networking needs

1. How to manage your library’s social networking identities Marketing Matters Tennessee Library Association 2010 Memphis, Tennessee 3-3.50 Director’s Row Rebecca Tolley-Stokes, East Tennessee State University

2. Managing identities Introduce librarians to tools such as social networking browsers or aggregators to streamline your library’s feeds and status updates all at once rather than piecemeal to make your forays into social networking more effective and efficient. Compare available tools to see which fits your social networking needs

3. tools Social networking browsers, social networking aggregators, social interaction manager, event aggregators, etc.

4. Four most popular Flock is a web-browser on par with Firefox & downloads to your pc Minggl is a social interaction manager; a toolbar that downloads to your pc Fuser & Gruvie are web-based services

5. 2 web-based services Gruvie Fuser

6. gruvie

7. gruvie Interacts with facebook, myspace, yahoomail, gmail, linkedin, and twitter. More interaction promised with blogger, hotmail, flickr, digg, imeem, youtube, friendster, bebo,wordpress, meetup, imagestock, photobucket, etc. Requires adobe flash player plugin download & compatibility issues with Google Chrome

8. gruvie interface

9. fuser

10. fuser Only supports email with US language settings Seamless email account aggregation and management for one-stop inbox from these services: aim, aol, comcast, earthlink, exchange/outlook, excite, gmail, hotmail, juno, lycos, etc. Few social networking sites: Myspace, friendster, & linkedin

11. fuser

12. fuser

13. fuser

14. flock

15. flock Flock is powered by Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, etc.) Integrates & delivers webmail, photos, videos, and updates from favorite sites in 12 languages 20 online services: facebook, digg, gmail, youtube, myspace, flickr, twitter, worpress, photobucket, blogger, yahoo mail, delicious, blogsome, livejournal, xanga, typepad, aolmail, picasa, tinypic, etc.

16. flock features

17. flock Enter email to download 12.9MB download Download, set up, and launch to desktop

18. turn on flock

19. Logging into accounts via flock

20. Making flock work for you

21. minggl

22. minggl Compatible with firefox & IE, 1.6MB One-click access to user profiles on various 2.0 sites from the toolbar Mass-send/update status to each network as well as friends across multiple networks. Works well, unobtrusive Tacky banner ads, some default settings annoying but easy to customize Filtering allows user to rank users/feeds by importance/relevance.

23. minggl

24. minggl

25. minggl

26. minggl

27. How they compare