[Sigmet-officers] Updates and action items

[Cassidy Sugimoto]

Thanks for all your work, Angela! I would definitely be in favor of a "nuts
and bolts" webinar. I think that would have a large audience.

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Angela Zoss <amzoss at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Sorry for sending another reply!  I also had a thought related to the
> Facebook page:
>
>>
>>> 7. At the annual meeting we discussed pros and cons of having Facebook
>>> page. Do we want to add one?
>>>
>>
>> Might as well. It's a low burden to set up, as long as we have someone to
>> maintain it and keep it active.
>>
>
> There seems to be enough activity with the SIG to keep the page
> interesting.  If we had something to update people on only, say, once every
> month or two, I would question the value a bit.  It's easy to give multiple
> people ownership rights over a Facebook page, so any officer could add
> material, make changes, etc.  Of course, there are Facebook pages and also
> Facebook groups - the groups allow people to add "documents", if that would
> be of any use.
>
> To follow up a bit on Gretchen's comments about Twitter, what we actually
> have is not a Twitter account but a Twitter "list" that I "curate".  It's a
> list of accounts I thought might be interesting to SIG members - basically
> an aggregator.  As she mentioned, I've only added 4 Twitter users to the
> list, so we could certainly use more metrics-related Twitter accounts, if
> anyone knows of them.  If there are only 7 people who are subscribed to the
> list, I don't find it that surprising.
>
> I guess the point I'm making is, we're not attempting to use Twitter to
> make any announcements or host any discussions - and certainly not to
> supplant the listserv.  Right now the Twitter list just collects posts from
> others.  If we had our own Twitter account we could add those tweets to the
> mix, of course.  Jonathan's message about Research Trends and the requests
> about advertising new issues did make me wonder if we should have a Twitter
> account for that sort of thing, so let me know if you'd like me to set one
> up and be active about making announcements.
>
> And, finally, the new officers are up on the website, and I did add
> Research Trends to our Resources page.  I have no excuse for the delay on
> updating the officers; it just slipped my mind.
>
> Best,
> Angela
>
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Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto
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