some beginnings...

Hi everyone!

I'm so sorry. Every week I say I'm going to post something just to get started, but no. Doesn't work out. I hope everyone is good and everyone is probably just as work-loaded right now as I.

So I'm just looking over deviantart website and seeing how we can relate this as a social network tool for libraries and what I've done is looked at some libraries that use social networking tools like myspace and facebook, just to get some ideas.

Just looking at the layout of deviantart, it seems a little limited maybe. But, I did find this option of editing your site I think. There is an option of putting up a custom, allowing you to put whatever you want to. I was thinking on that maybe we could add things like events and such, things that promote or drive people to using the library. There is also an option to add a link to twitter....so maybe we can use that somehow for to stay connected with others, like students or patrons in general. Perhaps that could be our use of online communication in case someone has a question that we can address online. I've never used twitter though before, but just read the caption for it...."social messaging to stay connected." Or there is also a Shoutbox on deviantart as well.

This is all just very rough, but I just wanted to get something out there. I hoped that this would make me feel more productive.

I'll keep remembering to look around the deviantart website and see what else we can do with it.
Jamie