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Category Archives: Mobile Technology and Libraries
Library Guide: Setting up Holiday Auto Responders with Mosio for Libraries
Setting up Holiday Auto Responders Happy Holidays! Here’s a quick tutorial on setting up holiday auto responders using Mosio. You’ve spent time creating great auto responders and with the holidays approaching you want to let patrons know your hours have changed, but don’t want to undo what you’ve already created. No problem! Set up holiday […]
Getting More Patron Usage from your Text a Librarian Service | Best Practices from Mosio’s Text a Librarian
The video below is a recorded session discussing how we’re seeing libraries increase patron usage. Below is a transcript of the notes taken during the recording. Increasing Patron Usage of your Text a Librarian Service: Get patrons to register their phones. The following conversation took place late in the evening as part […]
Text Messaging for Libraries – Mosio’s Alerts and Announcements Feature Guide
Text Messaging Alerts and Announcements – Stay in touch with more patrons on their mobile phones! Mosio’s Text a Librarian is the only mobile carrier certified text messaging solution built specifically for libraries, giving libraries the reliability and flexibility they need to stay top of mind for more patrons on the go. This quick instructional […]
Library Thought Leaders Q&A: Lisa Carlucci Thomas
Today’s Library Thought Leader is Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Director of design think do. We have been exploring the idea of “Patron Relationship Management” (PRM) and it is the theme of this Q&A series. What areas of PRM are you seeing where libraries can benefit the most? What roles can mobile technologies play? Libraries employ a […]
Should your library implement a Foursquare strategy? Only 17% of mobile users check in.
We’re all susceptible to hype, especially those of us in the mobile technologies industry. Hype is fun, it’s great getting excited about things. There has been a huge buzz building in the library space over the past year or so regarding Foursquare, Facebook Places and other location based services (LBS). When David Lee King (a […]
Shiny New Things: Beware of Early Adoption When Implementing Technologies at Your Library
This post is from an entry I did a few months back for Attack!, a guerrilla and event marketing services agency I co-founded and where I served as President before co-founding Mosio, but the fundamental ideas are the same: new technologies and gadgets are great for those of us who love the newest shiny things […]
Patron Relationship Management (PRM) – Mosio’s Future in Libraries
As we gear up for another ALA Annual the company has had some interesting discussions on new announcements and our directions in the world of library software. A couple of weeks ago I had a great meeting/conversation with one of our partners and the discussion of library customer service came up. At the end of […]
Mosio and Text a Librarian’s Post to Facebook Function: Now Live!
In February we launched a “Post to Twitter” function within the Mosio mobile messaging platform and Mosio’s Text a Librarian. We wrote a blog post about why this was good for libraries: user generated marketing. I’ve pasted the original blog post about why it was good for libraries below. It’s great for every business and […]