Notes from 3/22 Meeting

Notes on Our Meeting
Sunday, March 22

I’m afraid my note-taking skills are a little suspect, but here’s what I have…


Matt discussed the use of the Tutorials feature as a possible tool for integrating deviantArt site into a library.

--way of tapping into the educational potential of the site
--Possibility of creating one or several personae to “inhabit”
each area (painting, photography, etc.)
--using the Galleries features to gather tutorials that our users might
get interested in, draw people to our library presence on the
site.


How to integrated the real Social Networking aspects of the site into our project?
--developing links to the Chat portion of deviantArt (dA).

We also discussed what type of library we are representing, and decided on an urban public library such as SFPL.

How to draw users to our presence on dA?

Use of polls/auctions/contests.

Linking a Teen Center/Teen Art component with dA.

Pete talked about the Literature section of dA, use of writing contests, writing groups, collaborative writing projects, guest writers, etc. All as ways of using existing formats on dA as a way of linking with the library.

Jamie mentioned some research she had done on other types of Social Networking and their application to libraries, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.
-we discussed how the dA site differed from some of these and grappled with how to establish a library presence there.

Did we agree to use a blog format for the final presentation of our work?

We developed some categories to pursue further, including:
Library Presence on Website
Contests/Announcements/Other Communication Tools
Personae/Tutorials/Education
Writing/Literature
Social Networking

Discussed the possibility of setting up a real presence on the dA site, and also obtaining cooperation of SFPL on the project, but we seemed to feel time might be too short to get something like this going.


Pete