Social Media for Academics

Acknowledgements

Because social media inherently involves connections to people, it amazes me to think about all the communities and individuals who have contributed to my expertise in this area as well as to the daily developments in the industry. I must thank first the people I talked to on Bulletin Board Systems, Usenet and ICQ that I accessed on campus as an undergraduate and with my noisy dial-up modem at home. I also thank the colleagues I worked with at the Central Texas Library System and the Northeast Texas Library System five or six years ago, who gave me numerous opportunities to train library staff on the powers and challenges of implementing social media in libraries. Currently, my colleagues and administrators at the Faculty of ...