Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Social networking

It is very interesting that so many libraries exist in second life. This is an excellent way to reach the young community and others who may not physically want to visit the library.
As for myspace and facebook sites, these popular online meeting spaces are the perfect areas to target niche audiences. A different myspace page could be created for each age group or genre group accordingly. We could also have a general page for promotion of the library and this could link to the several niche pages. These social networking sites are perfect vehicles for book clubs and writing/study groups. Transfering this idea to second life brings these virtual communities of interest to a whole new level, with avatars and visual elements somewhat mirroring reality.

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