Hi
If you visit the page below you will find links to our Facebook and Blog sites produced to support our community engagement plan around the Big Lottery development of Harrogate Library.
http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=6463
We are also forming an IT Development group to look at ways to take advantage of other Web 2.0 initiatives. This will be formed from any staff at any level, enthusiasm for web developments is the only criteria!
Ideas came from the plan/structure suggested in the Library 2.0 Meme map ( copy available under a Creative Commons licence at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonaria/113222147/sizes/o/ )
We use Blogger for the blog as its free and simple to use and we needed something fairly quickly. We discussed this with the County Council Webteam who were happy for this to go forward as the Councils CMS does not (at present) support blogging functionality. We also had to get approval to freeup the restrictions on accessing Facebook on our staff machines.....
The basic issue we are trying to address is for an online library presence to be where some of our customers might be, rather than force people always to take the corporate route into our services.
Hope this helps.
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David Tanner
Manager: Stock and Systems
Adult and Community Services (Information)
North Yorkshire County Council
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Northallerton
North Yorkshire
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>>> On 16/09/2008 at 4:37 pm, in message
<[log in to unmask]>, Chris Davies
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In LB Enfield we are considering creating a public blog to report back on the
>
> progress of a library refurbishment project, and encourage community
> feedback and involvement in project developments.
>
> We are also setting up an Advisory Board to - as you might imagine - advise
> and inform our decision making. There is a proposal that Enfield Libraries
> would
> host (or co-host) the blog on behalf of, or with, the Advisory Board. If we
> are
> really ambitious, we may consider setting up an additional blog for
> teenagers -
> either separate from the initial blog or (we're not sure how...)
> interdependent.
>
> Has anybody any experience of hosting (or co-hosting) a blog on behalf of
> somebody else? If so, did it work? What were the pitfalls? - if you
> successfully
> avoided them, how? Is this a workable format for teenagers? What
> arrangements were in place for moderating contributions?
>
> Thoughts, opinions, constructive or destructive comments all welcomed.
> Thanks.
>
> Chris Davies
> (Information + Digital Citizenship Officer, Enfield Libraries)
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