Blogs

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What is your blogging experience?

Blogs

RoseMary 1169753750|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Does anyone have a blog or read any regularly? What are the pros and cons in your view? Are there particular situations you think a blog would work best or other situations where you think another form of communication would work better?
I keep a teen news blog at my library site that doesn't have any frills: http://yablog.coshoctonpl.org/teens/
I started at blogger.com but soon discovered teens couldn't get to it since it was filtered at school!
I also have a blog at MYSpcae for my Animanga Club: http://www.myspace.com/cplmangaclub

I use the blogs to deliver news and information to teens, but I don't "bare my soul" like a journal in them as I have seen in some blogs!

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Max Macias 1169758853|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Generally I don't read blogs, or write blogs. I use the blog feature on our Myspace to make announcements and to pass along information.

I think their value has NOT been determined yet.

We are going to implement a purchase request blog for patrons to request items. Our librarians in the subject area requested will respond with a yes or no—including rationale. I think this will be a powerful too which will keep librarians on their toes, and also create a more interactive environment in our library community.

I think using blogs in manners such as this, or the Lamson blog/opac are very very exciting!

http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/

Link to Lamson's explanation of their OPAC:

http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11133/

What does everyone else think?

How are you using blogs?

Thanks for the wonderful thread Rosemary!

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Maida 1170890190|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I just created a blog on blogger using a fantastically easy tutorial in the site "Academic Blogging" which was linked in the Social Libraries course. It's at http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set31/03_01.htm

My new blog is called "Library Updates" and it is at http://libraryupdatestryit.blogspot.com/

I'm thrilled to get this far, as I was feeling way more of a beginner than others in this group. Thanks so much for being there because otherwise I probably wouldn't have even tried. Plus I guess I'm also learning to participate in a wiki! Wow!

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Max Macias 1170958222|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Nice looking Blog Maida!

Good job!

Also thanks for the link to the tutorial!

Don't be worried about being a beginner—we all are.

Anybody who fancies themselves an expert is fooling themselves.

One of the main precepts of Libary 2.0 is SHARING, and you are doing much better on here than 90% of the people registered.

I am disappointed there has been little discussion, or interactio—which is what Web 2.0 is all about.

COLLABORATION brings about great change.

Isolation brings about stagnation.

Thanks for your participation!

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bjhcimlib 1172176233|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I viewed & listened to Rebecca Hedreen's presentation on blogs, "A 21st Century Printing Press: Blogs as Publishing Mechanism."

I thought the following uses for blogs were very creative. I'm keeping a list of what I'd like to try.

• Use blog for presentatons (put screenshots in, redo date stamps)
• Put CV into blog
• Blog as an online research guide - use Wordpress categories and redo date stamps. The presenter's Online Research Guide was quite impressive.
• Maintain a CV as a blog

Other ideas? If you have tried any of the above, I'd be interested in learning about it.