This was the title of the presentation I gave at the Fly the web event mentioned in the previous post. Since Dave Pattern had just made everyone a blogger through the practical exercise in the previous session, I didn't have to spend time explaining what a blog was! However, I did identify characteristics which I think lead to blogs being (quoting from my powerpoint) "Good for news, things with timelines, developing ideas; Not so good as a reference tool or to foster ongoing discussion on a range of topics." I drew a disctinction between individual bloggers and organisational bloggers. I talked about my experiences of blogging (as an "individual" blogger - it's certainly not part of my job description, and it isn't hosted at Sheffield either, now).I identified four areas in which blogging can be useful for libraries, and gave some examples of blogs of different kinds. I also highlighted some management type issues. Finally I identified some resources for library blogging: articles, wikis, search tools etc. For example sites that are useful for searching library blogs are:
Anjos, J. Infolitworld news: blogs. http://www.infolitworldnews.com/
Bradley, P. Librarian Weblogs. http://tinyurl.com/y6qvhf (Google custom search, 25 blogs)
Bradley, P. (2006) Librarian weblogs. Pageflakes. http://www.pageflakes.com/philipbradley.ashx?
page=4541261 (has search options for Google & Liszenembedded)
Libworm. http://www.libworm.com/ (Searches 1400 RSS feeds)
Liszen. http://www.liszen.com/ (searches 500 library blogs, Google custom search)
My PowerPoint is available in pdf format at: http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/blogging2006.pdf
Photo by Sheila Webber: Newcastle road bridge, Nov 2006.
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