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April 28, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Tech Talk 2015: Index to TLT Posts on Technology, Social Media and More

April 28, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS   1 comments

Technology is a HUGE part of what we do everyday.  Whether we are helping our teens use technology, using technology to connect with our teens, or trying to put together teen programs – there is no escaping it, and no escaping how often it changes.  Since we write about it, I thought we would make it easy for you to find it all in one place – HERE!  After all, geek is the new black.

Using Apps in Your Marketing
Apps Every Marketer Should Download   
The Best Marketing Apps
Generate Marketing Creativity with iPhone Apps (Photo apps)
Meme the Apps (Word on photo apps)
GIFs 101 (GIF apps)
20 Meme Making iPhone Apps 
Giffer App Review (making GIFs with Legos)

App Review – BeFunky

Making an “Ad” for My TSRC

Booktrailers 2.0
How to make a booktrailer
A look inside book trailer creation with Alicia Kat Dillman
Want to make a movie? There’s an app for that (iMovie)
6 Second Booktrailers Using Vine
Social Media 101
Using social media to engage teens
Relational Reading Revolution: Using social media to connecting readers with authors
The Beginners Guide to the Hashtag
Harness the Power of the Hashtag 
A Scientific Guide to the Best Times to Tweet, FB, Blog, etc. 
The Science of Social Timing 
Executing Your Social Media Marketing Strategy
6 Steps to Creating a Social Media Marketing Plan
Examples of People Using Social MediaWell:

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  • Epic Reads – Tea Time (strong online presence, great use of video, Book Shimmy)
  • Entangled Teen – Teen Trivia Fridays (Twitter) (predictable time, interactive, simple but engaging)
  • EarlyWord – #ewyagc (Twitter)
  • Glenn Ellyn Public Library
  •  Get Caught Reading thing DGPL
  • #3wordbooktalk at TLT

You can view the slides of the presentation that I did with JenBigHeart, Jenny Martin and Naomi Bates at TLA 2015 on Radical RA, which includes social media, at Tinyurl.com/Radical-RA

Online Tools

Tech Review: Online Creation Tools Piktochart and Canva

Take 5: Comic Book/Strip Creation Tools

Facebook

Ongoing changing in policies are causing some users to defect, less popular now, teens are defecting, can now use Hashtags

Making the most of your teen FB page
10 Tips for Using FB Pages for Marketing
Guerilla Marketing for Your FB Page
Instagram
Top Instagram Tags & Instagrammers  
How to Be a Pro on Instagram
Using Instagram for Marketing & 3 Tips for Success
How to Get Started with Instagram Marketing
Study: Fastest Growing Social Marketer Worldwide
Infographic: Instagram Marketing by the Numbers
4 Brands Using Instagram for Killer Marketing

Pinterest
Pinterest 101
Mashable: Pinterest Drives More Traffic to Publishers Than Twitter, LinkedIn, RedditCombined
20 Ways Libraries are Using Pinterest 
The Copyright Question: How to Protect Yourself on Pinterest
Tumblr
How to Tumblr part 1 and part 2
Take 5: Tumblrs That Rock
The Marketers Guide to Tumblr
26 Ways to Market with Tumblr
5 Things You Can Do with Tumblr :Craft Tutorials: Example, TardisCostume ; 2.Booklists: Example, 10 Things I Learned About Surviving the Apocalypse from YA Books; 3.New Books: Share the  covers ;4.Program Pics ; 5.Book Quotes
DIY on Tumblr 

Twitter

Don’t Underestimate the Value of Twitter
An Ode to Twitter
The Twitter Dictionary
How Twitter is teaching us not to judge
2013 Twitter Marketing Guide
5 Proven Twitter Marketing Strategies

Vine

How to Vine
How to Add Special Effects to Vine
Ultimate Guide to Vine
6 Tips for Making an Awesome Vine Video
6 Ways Your Brand Can Use Vine
Examples: Buzzfeeds10 People You Should Follow on Vine 
Example: What is Teen Advocacy

YouTube
More popular than FB
6 Biggest Mistakes Brands Make on YouTube;
How to YouTube with Success
10 Essential YouTube Tips and Tricks
Examples: Vlog Brothers and Do It Gurl
YouTube, Virtual Communities and Teen Sexual Health
5 Things You Should Know About YouTube
YouTube for the Tween Crowd
A BookTube Crash Course by AbbyRoseReads
What’s Hot on YouTube by Rose
Teen Programming and Technology
Teen Tech 12: Using Tech in Teen Programming
Meme ALL the Shirts
Instagram crafts
Turn your Instagram pics into Photobooth bookmarks
Geek Out Your Library
A Defense of Online Gaming in Libraries
TPIB: When Books Inspire Art (Using Apps to Create Book/Library Related Art)
Teens, Tech and Programming
The Relational Reading Revolution Revisited: Using social media to connect teens w/authors and get them invested in the reading community
Hosting a Coding Club
Gif Making 101 and Part 2
Little Bits, Makey Makey, Raspberry Pi and More!
An evaluation and comparison chart

Technology and MakerSpaces

Creating and Using an iPad Technology Lab as Part of a Library Teen Makerspace

Take 5: 5 Tools for Movie Making in Your MakerSpace

Resources

Make

Robot Test Kitchen

www.slashgear.com – tech news
www.buzzfeed.com – great example of content; find content to share
www.mashable.com – fave info resource
www.hypable.com – sharable content
www.ypulse.com – news about teens & millenials
www.socialmediatoday.com – all about social media

Webinars

Marketing with Apps by TeenLibrarianToolbox

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/184293860/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-1xvdtlg0g9lqpqmp41zg&show_recommendations=true

Teens Tech and Programming by TeenLibrarianToolbox

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/201441563/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-2985p557m789s5payarx&show_recommendations=true

Graphic Design for Non Graphic Designers by TeenLibrarianToolbox

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/224133986/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-MegAVhyOMCTGgMCpozy5&show_recommendations=true

Unconventional Reading Groups by TeenLibrarianToolbox

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/234865862/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-QkxGLSMWvCjoLZQ6GOLw&show_recommendations=true

Music in Our Libraries by TeenLibrarianToolbox

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/244749503/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-1wGDDKaCytZF9iOa7tQE&show_recommendations=true

STEM and STEAM Programming for Teens in Libraries (an Infopeople webinar)

Full STEAM Ahead with Tween and Teen Programming (a Florida Libraries webinar)

 

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About Karen Jensen, MLS

Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).

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