Persuasive Essay On Social Media

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I identify with the Forging category because in my experience, social media usage for a public institution has been well-defined and executed exceptionally well. That being said, I do believe there is always room for improvement in everything, so I did not select Fusing due to not having a full grasp on its potential yet. For example, at my public library, we use Facebook and Twitter quite often and well. Our following has been strong, our postings have been informative and creative, and we follow a set policy on what can be publicly posted. However, we have not explored other types of social media platforms well (e.g., Instagram, LinkedIn, Tumblr) and we have separation between the Teen services and general services that shows quite a difference …show more content…

I would assume this director does not use any social media platforms on his or her own and most likely has not had a positive experience in usage. My first step is to identify the most popular social media platform (I would select Facebook and Twitter) and present a few exceptionally well-done institutions to showcase how it is being used. The New York Public Library (@nypl) and the Library of Congress (@librarycongress)’s Twitter feeds have large followings and present highly educational, creative tweets to their followers. Additionally, I would show American Library Association’s Facebook page to highlight how they present events, information, and share stories with their followers. This library director may need more than just visual examples and I would also share recent research performed regarding social media usage as well as materials in our collection on businesses of all sizes utilize the various platforms. Lastly, I would encourage a trial period using Twitter to have the library director watch it develop and try it out his or …show more content…

What are the issues she is struggling with? What can we change to make the workplace better? Next, I would discuss with my team on implementing a social media policy and include a section on Employee Usage; while the employee has the right post freely on her own time by the protection of the First Amendment, her actions still pose a threat to her employment. Lastly, once the policy is in effect after going through the necessary binding process, the employee will need to understand how her future actions will affect her position in the workplace. I believe that once the awareness has been made and that her blog will need to be properly identified that her personal views do not reflect the library’s view, it is quite possible that the employee will reconsider her actions.

The Eisenhower Public Library created a fairly comprehensive social media policy, which covers all of the necessary aspects needed. As a few things of note, I appreciated the Definition section in order to highlight the keywords used in regards to social media. Additionally, their Disclaimer section contained more details than most policies I have been looking over and furthermore, having a Reporting Violations section is definitely

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