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Building A Tag Library For The Cala’S Social Media Channels, Sai Deng, Min Tong
Building A Tag Library For The Cala’S Social Media Channels, Sai Deng, Min Tong
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) has created several social media channels since 2012 with CALA members and friends participating from around the world, including the CALA's Facebook public page, WeChat space, YouTube Channel, LinkedIn Group and the "CALA Members and Friends" Facebook private group. This poster will introduce these channels and discuss the CALA Social Media Group’s efforts in promoting them to better serve the users’ needs and connect its members and friends nationally and internationally. One big effort to be discussed is to build a tag library for the CALA’s social media channels for postings to be connected …
Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao
Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) currently uses three social media channels, CALA Facebook, WeChat, and YouTube. In order to improve their presence and better serve the CALA members, CALA's first social media survey was conducted at the end of 2016 to seek feedback from its members and friends. This poster will present the background information for the survey, its methodology, findings, recommendations and follow-up. 18 questions were compiled, added to LimeSurvey and distributed to the CALA members via its Listserv. These questions attempted to address the users' social media usage, participation level, time spent on the CALA's social media …
A History And Analysis Of Cala's Social Media, Sai Deng, Xiao Hu
A History And Analysis Of Cala's Social Media, Sai Deng, Xiao Hu
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Under the rapid development of social media and social networking sites, a number of social media channels have been deeply integrated into people's professional and private lives. The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), started its social media presence in 2012 with Facebook, and then expanded to YouTube and WeChat. While CALA's Facebook and YouTube channel are more public and social platforms for its news, announcements and documents, its WeChat group is more of an informal space for sharing news and embarking discussions. This poster will look into the various aspects of these social media channels and provide statistical and textual …
Social Media For Librarians And Users, A Global Perspective, Sai Deng, Ying Zhang, Jing Xu
Social Media For Librarians And Users, A Global Perspective, Sai Deng, Ying Zhang, Jing Xu
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Social media has increasingly become an integral part of our personal and professional lives worldwide, and it revolutionizes how we communicate and share information. Libraries and librarians are early adopters and proponents for the use of social media. In countries such as China, social media has gained momentum in the recent years, and particularly in colleges and libraries.
This poster first investigates social media's presences and applications especially in university libraries in the U.S. and in China. The two countries use different social media apps such as WeChat, Facebook, Twitter, Weibo and Blog. It then focuses on a case study …
Let Theatre Take You To A New World — Without Ringing, Glowing Phones, Heather Gibson
Let Theatre Take You To A New World — Without Ringing, Glowing Phones, Heather Gibson
UCF Forum
There’s been a lot of talk about patron use of technology in theaters, the most recent story of course being Patti LuPone’s snatching a phone out of a texting audience member’s hands in the middle of a scene during Shows for Days at the Lincoln Center Theater.
Weathering The Storm Surge Of Social Media, Melody Bowdon
Weathering The Storm Surge Of Social Media, Melody Bowdon
UCF Forum
I’ve lived in Central Florida for more than 15 years, and in that time I’ve seen quite a few serious weather events affect our community. Though the hurricane season starts in the summer, around here we tend to become especially aware of the storm possibilities in the early fall, when more tropical activity spins up in the ocean and when annual milestones that have been marred by big storms in previous years come up on our calendars.
The Anxiety Of ‘Read It Later’, Nathan Holic
The Anxiety Of ‘Read It Later’, Nathan Holic
UCF Forum
As a kid, I loved horror movies, and so one year I set out to record every horror movie ever made. My parents had purchased a box of blank VHS tapes from Sam’s Club, and I used Super Long Play to record three movies to a single tape. (The quality was terrible, but this was the 1980s: The TVs were terrible, too.)
The Struggle Of Digital De-Cluttering, Nathan Holic
The Struggle Of Digital De-Cluttering, Nathan Holic
UCF Forum
To be a teacher is to shove all housekeeping tasks to those tight windows of time when the grading goes away. All semester long, dirty laundry piles up. The lawn grows unchecked. And then, just after my semester ends in December, or May, or August, I schedule long-overdue oil changes and haircuts and dental appointments.