Blogs - What is it?
A blog / weblog is A web page containing brief entries arranged chronologically Can be like
A journal or diary A „What‟s New‟ page A page of interesting links
“To me, the blog concept is about three things: Frequency, Brevity, and Personality.”
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Weblogs are more
They have been called personal web publishing communities* Weblogs don‟t stand alone
Relate / link to other blogs and the world Connect people together with a common interest
*Dave Winer http://newhome.weblogs.com/personalWebPublishingCommunities
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Terminology
Blogger – person who maintains a blog Blogging – the act of creating a blog Blogrolling – moving from blog to blog Blogorrhea – hundreds of posts per day about anything
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Why was there such an explosion?
2000-2006
“Push button publishing” No need to know HTML No need to know FTP Add / edit content anywhere, anytime
Dozens of features – dynamic, quick and easy to develop
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Why have library Blogs?
Easy to publish Simple from an IT standpoint Help solve real problems:
Email overload Personal knowledge management Discover/uncover expertise Information discovery Collaborate Keep up professionally
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How easy is it to publish?
1. Login 2. Type your entry 3. Publish it!
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Simple Formatting Options
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Blog posts as part of another page
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1. Promotion
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2. News
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3. Internal communications
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4. Create knowledge repository
Best practices – “know-how”
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U of S – Data jay@igcar.gov.inInternal Blog Library
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5. Project / Committee Blogs
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6. Professional / personal development
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SLA News Division - NewsliBlog
7. Get interactive
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8. Light weight publishing
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9. Get a RSS feed
Blog + Feed
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RSS to the campus portal
Library Headlines From RSS
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10. Community leader
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Technorati : Tracking World Live web
Tracking 89.1 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media Search and organize blogs Other citizen media (photos, videos, voting, etc.,) Technorati data (June 2007)
175,000 new blogs every day 1.6 million posts per day Over 18 updates a second
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Technorati
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Library weblogs
Hundreds of library and librarian weblogs
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links.html
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Sites that Help You Find Library Weblogs jay@igcar.gov.in http://library.usask.ca/~fichter/weblog/library_weblogs.html
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Thank you
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