Social Networking Strategies for Professionals
Computers in Libraries › Vol. 29 Nbr. 9, October 2009
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[...] some organizations may discourage their professionals from setting up profiles on public sites such as Linkedln, lest their competitors poach their personnel. Many tweets summarize or excerpt a news article, website, blog entry, or other resource along with its URL. Since you don't want to waste a single character when you must say something coherent within the allowed space, URL shortener services, especially bit.ly, find ample use.
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Social Networking Strategies for Professionals
Library professionals have always engaged with associations and communities to share experiences and information. Going back through the earliest times of the profession, librarians have interacted through conference meetings, professional publications, and a variety of other venues. These in- person and print-based interactions continue as important avenues of professional development but have been supplemented by social networking media. Social networking brings a new dimension to the professional lives of those involved with libraries, collapsing the latency of information exchange from months or years to almost instantaneous impact.
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