1. 10 Things
Paul Gray and Neil Lynch
Scottish Government Library
© Crown Copyright

3. Aim
To provide an overview of tools to develop your social
media and information searching skills to help you:
 Source material to inform policy and decision making
to support the work of the SG
 Promote the work of the SG in an accessible manner
to partners and the public
 Share information with SG and external colleagues

4. Objectives
 Introduction, overview of social media, Yammer
 RSS and dashboards
 Blogs
 Twitter
 SG & social media, SlideShare, Prezi, Creative Commons

5. Objectives
 Secure collaborative tools
 Non-secure collaborative tools
 Searching skills
 Social bookmarking and social citation
 Alerts and current awareness tools

6. Copyright, Information Assurance
IT Code of Conduct
 Copyright and Plagiarism
eLibrary – I need – Help with copyright
 Data Protection and Information Assurance
Services - Security - Information Security and
Assurance
 IT Code of Conduct
HR - Policies and Guidance - Conduct - Standards
- IT Code of Conduct

7. Social media
 Communication
 Keeping you up-to-date in your subject
 Creates sense of community
 Prevents re-inventing the wheel
 Saves time
 Work more efficiently
 Promotes open, transparent Government

8. Civil Service guidance
 Be credible
Be accurate, fair, thorough & transparent
 Be consistent
Encourage constructive criticism and deliberation. Be
cordial, honest and professional at all times
 Be responsive
When you gain insight, share it where appropriate

9. Civil Service guidance
 Be integrated
Whenever possible, align online
participation with other offline communications
 Be a Civil Servant
Remember that you are an ambassador for your
organisation. Wherever possible, disclose your position as
a representative of your Department or Agency

10. Digital Identity
 Personal
 Professional
 Official

16. RSS

25. Blogs and Blogging

37. Click to see Twitter exercise
logins

38. Audio & Video

46. Lunch

47. Secure collaborative tools
OFFICIAL:
 Knowledge Hub
 Huddle
 Government Communication Network

48. Secure collaborative tools
OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE:
 Huddle 3
 Internal SharePoints
 Collaborate
 Lync
 OneNote

65. Non-secure collaborative tools
 External SharePoints
 Yammer
 LinkedIn
 Knowledge Network
 Google+ communities
 Facebook
 Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive

76. Evaluation criteria
 Authority
 Bias and Viewpoint
 Currency
 Detail and Level
 Ease of Use and Accessibility

95. Social bookmarking

103. Alerts and Current Awareness

131. Summary
 Choose the best tools for you
 Can you ‘social media-ise’ existing work?
 It’s about your work - not the technology
 Remember your digital identity
 Ask the Digital Comms Team or Digital Coordinators
 Ask a Librarian
 Remember the Knowledge Hub