Blogger Review

Review of Blogger as a social media platform suitable for use by libraries or library related organisations

What is it used for	To promote awareness of programs and services
Ability to post images	Yes
Ability to post videos	Yes
Is real time uploading and scheduling available	Yes
Unlimited Characters	Yes
Can it be linked to own catalogue	Yes
What kind of library organisations use Blogger	All types
Demographics of users	Most users are from 20-35 years old, 1/3 of Blogger users are from the U.S.
Recommendation/s	Need to promote that the library uses Blogger on newsletters, website, and other social media platforms.

Facebook review

Review of Facebook as a social media platform suitable for use by libraries or library related organisations

What is it used for	Conveying professional ideas and info, for example outreach programs, events or changes in opening hours
Can a library use its own brand	Yes
Features included	Able to upload videos, links, images, unlimited characters and can highlight topic of post
Ability to post image	Yes
Ability to post video	Yes, 1.75 GB and 45 minutes is the maximum limit
Is real time uploading and scheduled available	Yes
Unlimited characters	Yes
Can be used on computer, tablet and mobiles	Yes
Can it be linked to own catalogue	Yes
What kind of library organisations use Facebook	All types
Demographics of users	70% of all internet users use Facebook, the age groups that use it most are from 18 to 64
Recommedation/s	The most avidly used social media platform by all kinds of libraries. It’s the most popular social media platform so it appears to be the best one to use, however some libraries may not use them avidly as content can be on their website.

Pinterest Review

Review of Pinterest as a social media platform suitable for use by libraries or library related organisations

What is it used for	Book recommendations and reviews, suggested reading, new releases, links to catalogue, book trailers, sharing ideas with other libraries
Can a library use its own brand	No, limited to icons only
Demographics of users	Mostly woman, adults from 20-45
Can it be linked to own catalogue	Yes
Limitations	Bandwith hungry, can only pin websites with an image
Can be used on computer, tablet and mobiles	Yes
What kind of library organisations use twitter	The fact is hardly no library organisations use Pinterest
Recommendation/s	Would be ideal for book review, however will need to be linked to our website and other social media platforms or it might get lost. Need to promote that the library uses Pinterest on newsletters, website, blog and other social media platforms

Twitter Review

Review of Twitter as a social media platform suitable for use by libraries or library related organisations

What is it used for	Conveying professional ideas and info, for example outreach programs, events or changes in opening hours
Features included	You can include photos, images, tags of other tweet members and links
Ability to post image	Yes
Ability to post video	Yes with a 30 sec length
Is real time uploading and scheduled available	Yes, both
Unlimited characters	No, only 140 characters allowed in each tweet
Can be used on computer, tablet and mobiles	Yes
What kind of library organisations use Twitter	Public libraries, University libraries, other library institutions and library related organisations
Will information of who is using the library Twitter be displayed	There is a 160 character biofield which can be optionally used that displays the mission and also who uses the library twitter can be displayed
Demographics of users	Mostly people from 18-49 years of age, and 20% of all internet users. More then half of tweets are from U.S. users.
Recommendation/s	Links should be provided to library website or blog for more information. Facebook might be better because it has unlimited characters.

Here are the addresses of my Scoop.it and Instagram accounts

So here are the addresses of my Scoop.it and Instagram accounts:

www.scoop.it/u/mir-libstudies

www.instagram.com/mirlibstudies/

Margie please follow me and anyone else from class that wants to please follow me too! :D