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Word of Mouth Marketing in Libraries - Info & Articles


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Faberge Shampoo started it all with their famous commercial from the 1970s. Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace nail it in their new article, "The Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing" in the November issue of American Libraries Magazine. We wrote a post called "… Continue

Posted on November 12, 2009 at 9:00am —

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Texting the Library - Beyond Reference Services



Text the Library With Comments, Feedback and Suggestions

Enabling libraries to set up mobile text messaging reference services so patrons can ask questions has been the primary use of our technology to date. In fact, mobile questions and answers is our busine… Continue

Posted on September 25, 2009 at 1:52pm —

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Progress As Promised - The Future Value of Software as a Service for Libraries

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“Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement,… Continue

Posted on September 14, 2009 at 6:30pm —

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Library Marketing Tips, Part 4: a Tool, a Trick and a How-To

Library Marketing Tips Part 4: Tools, Tricks and How Tos

There are enough topics around the subject of library marketing for an entire blog. In fact, Jill Stover posted to her blog, Library Marketing, Thinking O… Continue

Posted on August 27, 2009 at 9:30am —

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Start Pages as Library Virtual Reference Tools: Netvibes, Pageflakes and iGoogle

Start Pages as Library Virtual Reference Tools

We realize that start pages have been talked about in the library community for several years. Michael… Continue

Posted on August 19, 2009 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

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Then and Now... Faberge Shampoo started it all with their famous commercial from the 1970s. Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace nail it in their new article, "The Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing" in the November issue of American Libraries Magazine. ...
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Text a Librarian added a blog post
Text the Library With Comments, Feedback and Suggestions Enabling libraries to set up mobile text messaging reference services so patrons can ask questions has been the primary use of our technology to date. In fact, mobile questions and answer...
September 25
Text a Librarian commented on Text a Librarian's blog post 'Start Pages as Library Virtual Reference Tools: Netvibes, Pageflakes and iGoogle'
Yeah, the decision to block one but not others puzzles us as well, we hear about things like that on a fairly frequent basis. It can be understood in some ways, but true Library 2.0 utilizes all of the tools patrons are using, to be relevant. I gu...
September 25
Paul Hatch commented on Text a Librarian's blog post 'Start Pages as Library Virtual Reference Tools: Netvibes, Pageflakes and iGoogle'
This is really useful, I've been thinking about using start-pages like this for a while. I already use Pageflakes extensively for work purposes (it is, for example, the best way of keeping track of RSS feeds). I cannot use Netvibes, however, becau...
September 24

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Text a Librarian is an easy to use text messaging solution enabling libraries to set up cost-effective SMS reference services.

+ Librarians respond via a web interface — no mobile phone needed.

+ Works with existing email and IM/chat systems (Meebo, Pidgin, etc)

+ Secure and mobile carrier certified.

+ No hardware, software or mobile technology expertise required.

+ Accessible to over 250 Million US mobile phones.
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At 8:51am on May 25, 2009, Mike McQueen said…
Hi,
I'm a teacher librarian & recently started a community based blog for getting boys to read - http://GettingBoysToRead.com. Please send me a friend request if you'd like to network, share ideas, and learn more about getting boys to read.

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