Many librarians have joined the social networking universe by creating accounts for themselves and their libraries on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace.Linkedln, etc. But what happens when your town administrator connects with you on a site you mostly use for interacting with old high school friends? What is the protocol when a school librarian friends their students? How do you deal with a user who posts inappropriate photos on a library’s page? This presentation explores best practices for mixing your personal and professional lives on social networking sites, considers policies that can set guidelines for staff and patron/student use of these sites and discusses other ways to keep a comment we made on Facebook or MySpace off the front page of the local newspaper.

1. Navigating the Social Networking Landscape Presented by Kathy Lussier October 22, 2009 [email_address] http://www.slideshare.net/kmlussier Rocky Terrain, CC image originally uploaded by r-h to Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/r-h/1244347796/

3. Sites That Make Up This Landscape

4. What Image Do We Project Through Our Social Networking Profiles? Sam Gosling, author of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You Source: YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuoNAeTpUU

6. Your Friends Are Looking At Your Profile

8. What Do People Do On Social Networks That Give Others Such An Intimate Glance Into Our Lives?

9. It’s All In Who You Friend Or at least remembering who you friend

10. Relationships in the Physical World YOU FAMILY NEIGHBORS FRIENDS PERSONAL CHILDHOOD & HS FRIENDS COLLEGE FRIENDS EXES HISTORY CO-WORKERS COLLEAGUES USERS PROFESSIONAL

11. Relationships in the Virtual World From The Great American Melting Pot, Schoolhouse Rock, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWJ4udW41Ns

15. Send Friendly Reminders When People Post Messages That Don’t Meet Your Guidelines

16. Become Familiar with the News You Are Sharing

25. Scenarios