To Preserve or Not to Preserve: Social Media | Smithsonian Institution Archives The Smithsonian Institution currently has over five hundred social media, social networking, and other "web 2.0" accounts (many of them are listed on si.edu’s "Connect" page <http://www.si.edu/connect>). These accounts include approximately 143 Facebook accounts, one hundred Twitter accounts, seventy-four blogs, sixty-six Flickr accounts, and sixty-one YouTube accounts. These accounts are used for public outreach and to bring attention to the Smithsonian’s objects, exhibitions, research, programs, projects, events, activities, staff, and educational resources . Each of these accounts focuses on a different audience and specializes in a unique topic. http://bit.ly/K21GhZ Source: http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/preserve-or-not-preserve-social-media?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+si/vrZU+(The+Bigger+Picture)&utm_content=Google+Reader<http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/preserve-or-not-preserve-social-media?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+si/vrZU+%28The+Bigger+Picture%29&utm_content=Google+Reader> See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/K21GhZ+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]