What happened at our Digital Friday event in September

On the last Friday of September we held our most recent Digital Friday event at Guildford Library.

Our morning event was Connecting to your customers with social media. The session was led by Janet Ludley who gave a very interesting presentation on how your business can benefit by using social media.

The session advised business owners on how to build a social media plan for their company and which social network platform would work best.

Checkout the slideshow of her presentation here.

This was followed by a lunchtime presentation by Jonathan Wakeman about our Oxford University Press resources which are available on our online reference shelf http://bit.ly/1FaAHTW

We have six free OUP resources:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/
The Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com/
Oxford Reference Online http://www.oxfordreference.com/
Oxford Art Online which includes Grove Art and Benezit Dictionary of Artists http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
Oxford Dictionaries Online which includes Oxford Language Dictionaries http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
Who's Who and Who Was Who http://www.ukwhoswho.com/

We also ran our code club, the current sessions of which are now full. However we are hoping to run other sessions. If you are between 8 and 12 years old and are interested in finding out about future sessions please send us an email at virtuallibrary@surreycc.gov.uk

You can find out more about coding at https://www.codeclub.org.uk/

Find out more about Digital Friday at http://surreycc.gov.uk/digitalfriday

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