Comments on: Is Facebook Good for Business? http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/is-facebook-good-for-business/ News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dominique Papin http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/is-facebook-good-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-514 Dominique Papin Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:01:07 +0000 http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/is-facebook-good-for-business/#comment-514 I think that Libraries (or other business, but i'll stick with libraries in my example) can use Facebook to get closer to their users, but I don't believe in creating a library profile there. I think it should be through the creation of APIs that people can install on their Facebook (or other social sites). Direct access to searching the catalog or databases, showing what book you checked out of the library, things like that. People don't want to be 'befriended' by their library (at least, i doubt many do). I heard someone being almost freaked out because her teacher offered to be her friend on Facebook, I can only guess what she would have thought if her Academic library did. I think that Libraries (or other business, but i’ll stick with libraries in my example) can use Facebook to get closer to their users, but I don’t believe in creating a library profile there.
I think it should be through the creation of APIs that people can install on their Facebook (or other social sites). Direct access to searching the catalog or databases, showing what book you checked out of the library, things like that.
People don’t want to be ‘befriended’ by their library (at least, i doubt many do). I heard someone being almost freaked out because her teacher offered to be her friend on Facebook, I can only guess what she would have thought if her Academic library did.

]]> By: Teresa Valdez Klein http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/is-facebook-good-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-502 Teresa Valdez Klein Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:21:16 +0000 http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/is-facebook-good-for-business/#comment-502 Many thanks for the link love. I think that Facebook can be used as a business tool only insofar as people are willing to keep an open mind about what they see. Since transparency is the order of the day, people are being more transparent. This is a site that allows you to post not only your name and occupation, but your marital status, sexual orientation and photos and videos of yourself. Professionalism as we know it is going to change. It has to. Many thanks for the link love. I think that Facebook can be used as a business tool only insofar as people are willing to keep an open mind about what they see. Since transparency is the order of the day, people are being more transparent.

This is a site that allows you to post not only your name and occupation, but your marital status, sexual orientation and photos and videos of yourself. Professionalism as we know it is going to change. It has to.

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