At the BEA Day of Education this year, one of the questions posed at the end of the social media panel was: “Two years ago, you told us we had to look into Myspace. Last year, it was Facebook. This year, it’s Twitter. What’s it going to be next year?”

Allow me to present a possible contender: Glue. Glue isn’t just a possibility for the next level of social media; it also challenges us to re-think the way we’re using social media.

While this is great to read it’s even sweeter to know that it was written by Stephanie A (@Bookavore), a respected voice in the book community and manager of the vibrant bookstore, Word.

Stephanie’s article, “Namastechnology: Adding Glue to the Social Network Mix”, appeared in today’s edition of Shelf Awareness. If you want to read an excellent primer on Glue I suggest that you check out the article.

Bonus: I shared some of my thoughts with Stephanie on strategies that I’d like to see indie booksellers follow. You can read them on Stephanie’s blog (it’s nice to see the super smart author Mitali P agree with some of my points within the comments).