The aim of the 23 Things Summer Camp strategy sessions was to encourage attendees to think about the point of social media and how it might be used to greatest effect in their libraries.

A good part of each session was spent working through a process of identifying social media requirements, including audiences, content requirements and functionality. This information was then plotted in a grid against a variety of popular social media tools to help clarify which might be most useful for each library.

The old fashioned approach of pen and large pieces of paper was used and resulted in some great stuff. Examples below:

I promised attendees at the first Synchronisation session of the Summer Camp yesterday that I would post my presentation here for them.  If you are due to attend the next Synchronisation session on 26th August, you may want to look away now to avoid spoilering yourself!

This post provides you with guidance on how to link your various web 2.0 sites and services together so that they update each other automatically and display their content on your other web sites.   Click on any of the 'how do I...?'s below for instructions.  There are a lot of potential ways that you can link sites, and usually a variety of ways in which you can do so. Before you start, think carefully about which sites you have and how and why you want to link them, and be prepared to experiment if something doesn't work!

Note for readers of this blog who are not attending the Summer Camp session: these are rough guides to get you started, and are not comprehensive. Once you get the hang of linking things together, you'll find that they all function in one of a few ways - using an RSS feed, a widget, or a third-party application.