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What Would Abe Lincoln’s Social Media Campaign Look Like? A New Classroom Use For Twitter and Facebook

Edsurge

During the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and his team pioneered the use of social media as a powerful campaign tool. It’s easy to forget, given how commonplace the use of social media is today, that back in 2008. Both Twitter and the iPhone were less than a year old. I’m curious.

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Library in Your Pocket

The Daring Librarian

Today''s blog was inspired by the amazing Meredith Farkas, Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University, columnist for American Libraries, lecturer at San Jose State University’s SLIS program, author, speaker and consultant on social media and managing change. It is FREE, so it should be a must have for all iPhone users.

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AP: Libraries launch apps to sync with iPod generation

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

who uses the Orange County Library System''s iPhone app to discover foreign films. The latest national data from the American Library Association shows that library visits and circulation climbed nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2008. But it still maintains a Twitter account and texts patrons when items are about to become overdue.