I have had to change the name of my Blog - why? Because the title seemed to be attracting the wrong sort of attention. Internet security was going haywire! Couldn't understand why!
Until a kind group at work, the Stock Promotion Group I lead, pointed out that it may have something to do with having 'Nocturnes' in the title. So okay I said 'what else goes with 'Ouch'. Now Ouch is my Twitter username and comes from Outreach as in Community Outreach Librarian? Works ok as a Twitter name but it was suggested I may have to ditch this part of my name too!
It is a dangerous business, this Blogging, Tweeting and Facebooking. Need to be watchful at every move. I am often posting comments and Tweeting, then immediately removing the Tweets again on second thoughts. Can't even repeat the 'gaff' I made at Christmas when I commented on one of my son's photos and had to remove the next day. Fine if you catch them on time, but if you get retweeted before you get the chance, your faux pas could be out there forever! We have Social Media Guidelines in place for the Library Service and this certainly helps, but a lot of common sense and 'savvy' are needed too - the latter not always there in my case!
The Stock Promotion Group did get through lots of work today apart from the advice on my name change. Set up for all things Reader Development a few years ago and working alongside the library design team, it has helped change the look of our libraries and the way we promote stock, develop our readers and attract new readers.
Today we were discussing the Reading Relay Challenge we are taking part in as part of a national promotion in Scotland. The council website was also on the agenda and how we are going to populate our Books and Reading pages of the library section.We'll do this with lots of reading group information, readers' reviews, reading group collection lists and how to choose your next read. Also spoke about putting up Readers' pages on the new website, a forum or blog - which was why I got on the subject of my blog in the first place! Blog is probably easier to get onto the website as it can be an external link, whereas a forum may not pass our council website security. Still under discussion with our group. No denying though that we are going to have to get even more interactive than at the moment if we want to keep up with our readers and keep them with us.
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