EDINA social media summary and guidelines

Last April EDINA launched a new Social Media page on the EDINA website with links to social media presences for projects and services.

There have been many additions to the page since then, the latest being a link to the EDINA Social Media Guidelines.

The launch of the guidelines, developed with contributions and feedback from many of the project and service teams, provides an opportunity to highlight recent social media activity across EDINA.

EDINA has had a Facebook page for some time and has been using it to share news and connect with those interested in the organisation or our projects and services. There are also EDINA, Digimap and AddressingHistory YouTube channels to share content from across the organisation.

The social media presences we first shared on our page continue to thrive, and more are added regularly:

The Digimap blog covers changes and updates to the Digimap service and highlights new or improved features as they appear. A YouTube channel and Twitter account have recently been added.
The SUNCAT blog provides weekly posts covering the newest updates to SUNCAT and any new contributing libraries included in the service. These posts also feed into the service’s Facebook page and Twitter stream.
The Unlock blog maintains its specialist focus on gazetteers, geo-referencing and associated news.
The CHALICE project has also been blogging on project progress and the team’s reflections on Agile development experiences.
Since launching the Go-Geo! blog and Twitter presence last year, the Go-Geo! team have been sharing updates, tips and event reports.
The UK LOCKSS Alliance, the PEPRS and PECAN projects have been using a joint Twitter account to share event and current awareness posts on eJournals and preservation.
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland now has a Facebook Page and Twitter account through which highlights from the Accounts are shared. Any Twitter user is able to post with the #statacc hashtag to share their own favourite extracts.

Finally a number of recent EDINA projects have been blogging their development process including the following:

GeoMobile Scoping Study
Open Access Repository Junction
AddressingHistory (in addition to Facebook and Twitter presences)
WSTIERIA
Mediahub, the forthcoming multimedia site replacing Digital Images for Education, the Film & Sound Online and the NewsFilm Online collections

Links to all the above outlets and to the Social Media Guidelines:

EDINA and Social Media