David Lee King

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It’s #FollowALibrary Day on Twitter!

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followalibraryPromoting your library is never a bad thing – why not do it today? Today is #FollowALibrary day on Twitter.

How do you participate? Pretty simple – post something on Twitter, and include the #FollowALibrary hashtag. It’s a great time to celebrate your library and all they do for your community, using social media to share.

Want more info? Here’s a press release about #FollowALibrary Day:

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Libraries Unite Globally on Twitter for #FollowALibrary Day

September 30th, 2016

On September 30th, 2016, libraries around the world will take to Twitter using #FollowALibrary to promote and celebrate the amazing work other libraries are doing on social mediapromote and celebrate the amazing work other libraries are doing on social media. As part of their commitment to learning and recreation, libraries participate in social media to discuss, collaborate, and contribute.

Whether libraries’ content are informative or lighthearted, there is a unified message to raise awareness of libraries and their relevance in the digital age. Taking conversations into virtual spaces where people gather online is a natural extension of libraries’ ongoing mission to enrich, connect, and inform.

Join the conversation to celebrate libraries and all they do for our communities on September 30th using #FollowALibrary

For more information, follow the hashtag on September 30th.

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Media Contact:

Dave McMurrin
Assistant Library Director
Barbara S. Ponce Public Library
City of Pinellas Park
727-369-0679
[email protected]
www.pinellas-park.com/library

#followalibrary Day is Oct 1

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October 1st is Follow A Library Day on Twitter!

It’s an easy enough thing to participate in. The Follow a Library website suggests this: “Participating is very simple: tweet on October 1st what your favorite twittering library (or libraries) is (or are). Use in your tweet the hashtag (or keyword) #followalibrary.”

Simple stuff, right?

Why not push that idea 1-2 steps further, to get a bit more bang out of your buck? On Oct 1, do what the organizers suggest – ask your Twitter followers to tweet their favorite Twittering library, using the #followalibrary hashtag.

THEN, do three more things:

  1. Using your library’s Twitter account, actually ASK FOR FOLLOWERS. It IS Follow A Library day, and all. Make sure to use the #gfollowalibrary hashtag.
  2. Then ask your followers to retweet those posts. What’s that do? My library has 1427 followers… what if all of those followers retweeted those messages? And then shared what THEIR favorite library was with all those Twitter followers? Much better reach that way.
  3. Then ask another question using the #followalibrary hashtag – ask “Why are we your favorite library?” Those responses have the potential to be pretty valuable! Use responses as sort of a “check-in” with your library patrons, and share them with staff. Is it what you expected? Listen to what your twitter followers say about you and your library!

OK – one more thing here. You’ve just asked your community to follow your library’s Twitter account on October 1st.

What are you going to do to SUSTAIN that growth on October 2nd?