Using social web services like blogs, wikis, social networks and video sharing sites can help maximize access to an organization's resources, ideas and brand. These services allow engagement with potential audiences and monitoring how the organization is discussed online. An example is given of the Brooklyn Museum which uses services like blogs, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube very effectively. It is concluded that ignoring the potential of social media risks losing out to peers, and using these services can support an organization's mission.
"Pimp Up Your Stuff!": How To Exploit The Social Web
1. Using the Social Web to Maximise Access to your Resources: “Pimp Up Your Stuff!”: How To Exploit The Social Web Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Acceptable Use Policy Recording of this talk, taking photos, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Resources bookmarked using ‘ sca-seo-2009 ' tag http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/sca-seo-20090629/ Email: [email_address] Twitter: http://twitter.com/briankelly/ Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
15. What Can Twitter Offer? Twitter Promoting blog post about possible event. Brief - designed for retweeting (RT) Should you add “Please RT”?
16. What Can Twitter Offer? Twitter “ OMG they’re criticising us – and this is being retweeted to new groups! ” Note you don’t have to respond (but you may address issues raised)