Should medical librararies and librarians be establishing accounts in social networking sites such as NurseLinkUp, Sermo, Healtheva, Facebook, MySpace, or even Second Life? If so, what should we do there? How will our actions differ from those of academic and public library folk?
Will these sites even allow medical libraries or librarians to have accounts, or will these sites behave as Facebook did and remove their entries? (Saying that it was for “individuals,” not “faceless entities” like libraries.)
URLs:
http://davidrothman.net/2007/03/05/nurselinkup-myspace-for-nurses/
NurseLinkUp, http://www.nurselinkup.com
Sermo, http://www.sermo.com
Healtheva, http://www.healtheva.com
Facebook, http://www.facebook.com
MySpace, http://www.myspace.com
Second Life, http://secondlife.com
1 comment:
Sites like NurseLinkUp, allow Nurses, and those interested in Nursing to communicate on a same level. Unlike the facebook or myspace methods - NurseLinkUp keeps it strictly nurse.
Building a library of data for each category, facebook or myspace could do, but it would extinguish a lot of their resources. A place like NurseLinkUp allows for Nurses, or those interested in Nursing to share, build, and catalog on a site made just for them.
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