I have heard of Google Alerts before, but Social Mention and Addictomatic are new to me, so I tried out all three. I think I prefer the Addictomatic's format and how it shows where the library is being mentioned.
When I searched our library using all three methods, I was kind of depressed by the results about our library: there are hardly any. Our library has a Twitter account and a Facebook page, but I don't think we are using it as often as we could to promote our upcoming events and services.
I think that it is a very good idea to create a social networking presence for the library, but right now I am not sure who is in charge of that. In a dream world, we could hire someone who would just handle promoting the library, including social media, but we are a pretty small library.
Someone else posted a bit about how nothing really came up for their library either. Like you said, it may be because your library isn't really utilizing Twitter and Facebook etc like it could. I think it's helpful when libraries really do get out there in the social media world and start interacting and making comments on other blogs and participating that it gets interesting. Lots of libraries have concerns about that, but it's where the people are at and if libraries keep their distance then their relevancy will remain sadly unknown.
ReplyDeleteDebbie, I could have written your post. I had the same results.
ReplyDeleteI too had the same result as you. Not very many results for the library I work at. I went in and added a larger library system in the area to see how Social Mention and Addictomatic really work.
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