social networking

Ah finally something I have had some practice with, having been a member of facebook for some months now.

You can set up any group you like for example. For libraries I can imagine setting up a group or groups to market activities for a particular library, and for library services-wide promotions. We can have discussion groups for anything we want too. It could be pretty cool. It would have to be regularly updated to remain interesting though, and not everyone who is interested in library doings will have a facebook account and want to create one to find library events.

I wonder who of us would manage an official LSB facebook page, and where does Council and media fit in? I'm sure they will want a say in what we do here.

It would be very interesting to have a debate/discussion on which of these new medias would be the best for us to establish a well maintained presence, that gives us the best exposure, but does not commit us to maintaining multiple web presences, which would dilute our efforts.

Plenty of time for that debate!