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SOCIAL MEDIA UNIVERSITY
Beyond Facebook and Tweets: Taking Social Media to the Next Level
Presented by the Tulsa City-County Library Research Center
Sponsored by the Tulsa Library Trust
Seventy exabytes of data will be created this year through blogs, books, tweets, Facebook updates, new websites and more. It is the equivalent of 518,000Libraries of Congress. The risk to so much content is that it becomes worthless, which means we risk the Internet and social media becoming ultimately worthless.
Social media tools, however, also allow us to add value to our lives beyond simply connecting to our friends. With purposeful interactions we create information used for knowledge, which when applied equates Wisdom. This is the value of social media.
Bill Handy, Visiting Professor at Oklahoma State University in the School of Media and Strategic Communications, will begin this presentation with the theoretical concepts of social media and guide us beyond the traditional and trivial uses. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of the value of social media and the larger implications it has to our lives and to our society. The information provided can also be applied to organizational and business efforts to add value to their online footprint.
Wednesday, September 22 2-4 p.m.
Aaronson Auditorium Central Library Fourth and Denver
