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Library Blogger
Time Commitment
significant time commitment
Purpose
This volunteer position requires a high-energy, self-directed, deadline-oriented person who has exceptional communication skills and is able to maintain the library's blog. Each blog entry will reinforce the library's mission, offer best practices information, create a sense of community, offer readers' advisory information, provide a connection to things happening in the library and community, and create an opportunity for reader comments.
Benefits of Volunteering
- Chance to meet new people
- To work in pleasant surroundings
- To develop new skills
- Give something back to the community
- Share your talents
- Feel needed and valued
- Enhance your resume
- Satisfaction from accomplishment
Duties & Responsibilities
- Edits and publishes content on the library's blog under the direction of the library director
- Measures and tracks the effectiveness of blog topics based on the number of views and number of comments
- Manages the flow of content from the library staff to digital platforms
- Performs continuous enhancements and modifications to the library's blog
- Troubleshoots and repairs bugs and technical problems
- Tracks all traffic and generates reports to help staff sharpen strategies
- Assists in developing policies and procedures to support the library's blogging activities
- Works with the library staff to identify opportunities and content to promote books (all formats), literacy programs and special events
- Plays a critical role in revamping and managing the content for the library's website
- Does daily patron outreach
- Draws up social media advertising and marketing plans that suit the services of the library and increases visibility, membership, useage, and traffic within and outside the library
- Experiments with new and alternative ways to leverage blogging activities
- Regularly monitors social media vehicles, and judges the viability of each resource
- Uses the latest internet tools and technology to promote the library on its blog
- Maintains good relations with the library?s client base through blogging
- Acts as a liaison between blog readers and the Library Director/Library Board
- Regularly studies the statistics regarding the effectiveness of social media marketing
- Maintains high ethics with blog presentation, content and daily work tasks
Skills/Abilities/Qualifications Required
- Possess engaging "conversational" writing skills projected in a professional manner
- Must have great computer skills and be Internet savvy
- Must be an excellent writer with superb proofreading and editing skills
- Present professional, but friendly posture with blogosphere colleagues and throughout the Internet
- Must have social media experience
- Be open to taking questions about the library on social media
- Ability to effectively manage time and multi-task
- Ability to work independently and as a member of the team-- Ability to work congenially with staff, patrons, and other volunteers
- Proficient in software related to social media
- Ability to easily adapt to changing priorities and deadlines
- Should be tech-savvy and well versed with computer applications
- Ability to think creatively to assist in promoting the library in the community
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at the same time
- Knowledge of blogging, QR codes, @Mentions and #Hashtags on Twitter
- Attentive to detail
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of online community and social media platforms
- Ability to keep up-to-date with the developments in Internet technology and utilizing them in the social media marketing of the library
- General familiarity with libraries a plus