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You’re being forced to abandon vanity metrics. That’s a good thing.

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Laura

What we’re seeing now, though represents a huge shift in how even the social media platforms themselves are viewing low-level (often referred to as “vanity”) metrics.

Posted in social mediaTagged social media
Make Your Social Media Posts Better in 5 Easy Steps.

Make your library’s social media posts better in 5 easy steps

Posted on September 29, 2020October 2, 2025 by Laura

For the past couple of months, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a small, selective cohort of library staff…

Posted in social mediaTagged social media2 Comments on Make your library’s social media posts better in 5 easy steps
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My relationship with Facebook: “It’s complicated”

Posted on October 18, 2018October 18, 2018 by Laura

It is part of the global Internet infrastructure now. Safiya Noble, a University of Southern California professor and author of Algorithms of…

Posted in social mediaTagged facebook, social media2 Comments on My relationship with Facebook: “It’s complicated”
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Social media isn’t what it used to be…and it never will be again (Part II)

Posted on September 4, 2018September 3, 2019 by Laura

(Read Part I here) The decline of sharing In his 2015 book The Content Code, Mark W. Schaefer points out…

Posted in social mediaTagged social media, trends
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Frustrated? Why your library needs to level up to content marketing

Posted on May 2, 2017May 3, 2017 by Laura

It’s no longer a novelty for a library to be visible online: it’s a necessity. It’s time to level up how we present our libraries online, because “doing social media” doesn’t cut it.

Posted in social mediaTagged content marketing, social media
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Stop diminishing your library’s brand: unify its voice

Posted on October 6, 2016October 6, 2016 by Laura

I get to present workshops and courses fairly often, especially on social media-related topics (when you write books about a…

Posted in social mediaTagged branches, social media2 Comments on Stop diminishing your library’s brand: unify its voice
Teens with cell phones

New social media rules for us #olds

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Laura

A common question from librarians is “Where are the kids online?”  Of course, the answer to this question changes regularly….

Posted in social mediaTagged instagram, snapchat, social media, teens
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