50 Tips for Implementing User-Generated Content in Your Library

Jessica Merritt at CollegeDegrees.com gives us 50 Tips and Resources to Implement User-Generated Content In Your Library. She organizes these resources into tips, tools, and guides, here are her top ten suggestions:

  1. Allow things to be messy
  2. Know when to moderate
  3. Get all of your staff involved
  4. Create tags and encourage users to adopt them
  5. Encourage corrections
  6. Don’t call it “user generated content”
  7. Grow your own
  8. Don’t charge for access within your network
  9. Specifically ask users to contribute
  10. Create a question and answer section

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One Response to “50 Tips for Implementing User-Generated Content in Your Library”

  1. Nick Patterson Says:
    June 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am

    My favorite is “don’t call it user-generated content”! :)

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