Targeting Your Users (Identifying Library Stakeholders)

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Targeting your users Urban Rybrink June 26th 2013

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This presentation by Urban Rybrink, Head of Communications at the National Library of Sweden was delivered as part of a workshop at LIBER's 2013 conference. The workshop was: "The Interactive Library: Communicating Effectively With Your Stakeholders". Learn more about the National Library of Sweden at www.kb.se/english and about LIBER at www.libereurope.eu

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Targeting your users

Urban Rybrink

June 26th 2013

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Why on the web?

• Collect and preserve all Swedish publications, andmake the material available to the public

• To pull together and develop the Swedish library sector

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NL on the web

12 blogs

More than 10 official

accounts in social

medias

7 sites

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Plus…

Press-room

Jointprojects

More than 10 search

services

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What does everybody else write?

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Target groups

Content can be divided into five target groups:

• Visitors/Public/Researchers– Visit and loans– Collections

• Libraries in Sweden– Libris – National search service– Library statistics– National cooperation– Open access– Metadata

• Providers– Digital deposits– Physical deposits– ISBN-central

• Government information– About the National Library as a

government agency– Offers of employment

• Foreign users

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Blogs – for special-interest users

• Reach small groups, but highly knowledged

• Interaction is possible

• Keep the regular website generalized forbroader target groups

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How can one measure social media?

Attention

Handling

Intresse

Interest

Action

Operation

Loyalty

• Unique visitors in owned media• Views in social media

• Visits in owned media• Page views in owned media• Pages per visit in owned media• Visits in owned media through social media

• Time spent in owned media• Interactions in the blogs• Earned media

• Returning visitors to owned media• Sharing owned media (earned media)

• Actions that leads to goal

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National Library in digital numbers 2012

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• 445.870 unique visitors in owned media• 1.515.361 views on Facebook• App. 1.000.000 views on Twitter

• 1.010.053 visits in owned media• 3.136.535 page views in owned media• 2,4 page views per visitor in owned media• 38.145 visits in owned media through social media

• 2 min 22 sec spent time in owned media• Total 79 days & 16 hrs viewing time on YouTube• 535 commentaries in blogs• 20 commentaries on YouTube• 8.367 mentions on Facebook• App. 800 mentions on Twitter

• 596.798 returning visitors in owned media• 248 times shared content from owned media• 31 visitors shared content from our YouTube-page• 528.534 views on Facebook through friends• App. 1.000.000 views on Twitter through friends• 7706 followers on Facebook• App. 2500 followers on Twitter• 382 subscribers on YouTube

• 132.150 IRL visitors• 6.467 new loaners• 93.379 loans• 124.295 started files• 16.937 distance loans

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Campaign: Recruitment of new staff

Job service

Facebook/Twitter

www.kb.se

Other

38 candidates

3 candidates

23 candidates

67 candidates

40 visitors to kb.se

287 visitors to kb.se

116 visitors to kb.se

490 visitors to kb.se

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Targets

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Twitter

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LinkedIn

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Flickr

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Facebook

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Twitter

3675(+1893)

LinkedIn

90(+43)

Flickr

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YouTube

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Wikipedia

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Target group: researchers

• 90% of all highly educated and 92% of all students use Internet daily

• Similar behaviour patterns in proffession and private life

• Positive attitude towards social media

Use social media to:

• Active group

• Wants short texts with links to in-depth information

• Ex: Twitter

Get information and ideas for current researc

• Use social media with closed access for networking and communication

• Ex: Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+

Networking with colleagues

Ex: blogs, Twitter

Create interest for research projects and attracting sponsorship

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Target group: Library sector

Librarians use daily: • Similar behaviour patterns in proffession and private life

• Big users of social media

• Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are most popular

E-mail 50%

Social media 23%

RSS readers 16%

Chat 14%

Library news 13%

Blogs 12%

Wikis 9%

Mobile-apps 9%

Videosites (ex. YouTube) 6%

Image sites (ex. Flickr) 6%

Discussions forums 6%

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Target group: Library sector

• Survey on Facebook spring 2013

What librarians wants on Facebook

Library sector news 77%

What are they REALLY doing on the NL? 73%

Information about our services 68%

Images and video clips from our collections 55%

News about national search services 55%

News about metadata 50%

News about library statistics 45%

News for public libraries 45%

News for research libraries 45%

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The dilemma in measuring social media

• It’s all about quantity, not about quality

• Who are our followers on Facebook and Twitter?

• Do we reach our targeted groups through social media & is it worth the cost?

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