Next up, connecting social tools with your own website.
Facebook Connect is the 'premium' way, which enables users to share info from the library website directly to their Facebook communities. We currently have a lesser version of the same type of idea using Google Friendconnect, which hasn't taken off real well.
RSS feeds; Tell-a-friend; Share This are all ways of making it easy for users to push info from a website to their own blogs or social networks. Currently we are RSS'ing a certain amount of info, but we are the ones selecting the info we send out, and are therefore making assumptions about what the users will like. We are also only sending info out once, other than the 'new books'-type links that are sent out weekly to subscribers. Some of the tools mentioned here propagate throughout the website and can be selected as and when they catch a users eye.
I may take a closer look at Friendconnect, and think about adding the 'share this' code to the lib.de.us site.
UPDATE: I added a 'share this' function to the front page news announcements on the lib.de.us site.
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