Libraries & lifestreaming

Apr 13th, 2009
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From Musings about Librarianship, Aaron posted something I wanted to share with the greater blogospere:  Libraries on FriendFeed.

With the ever-increasing numbers of libraries using sites such as Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Delicious, etc, Aaron was curious about how many libraries are using lifestreaming services to aggregate all accounts making up their on-line presence. He did a small survey of libraries and FriendFeed and discovered what types of web 2.0 technologies that libraries are using and which technologies were the most popular amongst libraries.

He has a disclaimer that the information he found is not representative what all libraries are doing with social media; rather, it shows what libraries with FriendFeed accounts are doing. Nonetheless, I find it fascinating.

The post is a great read, providing lots of background information about libraries and social media. Aaron also uploaded his data to a Googledocs to share. Check it out!

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  • http://lazygal.blogspot.com Lazygal

    We’ve been thinking about using Storytlr – I already use it for my personal lifestream. It seems to me that it’s better for our users if there’s one place to go rather than multiple clicks to find links (delicious), news (RSS) and comments (twitter).

  • http://blog.nus.edu.sg/aarontay/ Aarontay

    Thanks. I loved your piece on Libraries and Twitter. I find Lifestreaming really fascinating, hopefully we can see more attention put on it.

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  • http://theunquietlibrary.wordpress.com/ theunquietlibrary

    Great post! You have inspired me to create a Friend Feed account for my library! http://friendfeed.com/theunquietlibrary

    Buffy Hamilton

  • http://blog.nus.edu.sg/aarontay/ Aarontay

    Incidentally I just blogged about timeline based lifestreaming services.

    I’ve being played with Dipity,

    Storytlr seems to be something different, but I think require a bit more work to run I think? Correct me if i’m wrong, but it’s more like a blog which can grab data from other services and everything is displayed on the same page.