Categories Blogging

http://wplbookclub.blogspot.com/2006/06/librarians-book-club-blog-gets.html One of my favorite examples fr blog workshops and the Roadshow! Well done, Christine!! Waterloo librarian Christine Brown draws inspiration from a variety of sources for her online book club blog. The blog has been picked up by the American Library Association as part of a course on Internet technologies. Do you know what a washing machine, hot air furnace, privy seat and moustache adjuster all have in common? Probably not. But then you’re likely missing out on Christine Brown’s blog, an online publishing tool that offers a huge array of information, including hyperlinks related to “cool websites.”

Love the term! “Textcasting” http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/05/textcasting_the.html Heck yeah! I’m in. Great idea!

A blog to watch…fascinating: Put simply: Instead of trying to make your library seem cool, be a librarian and do cool things. This concept developed out of my experiments with blogs. I was using LiveJournal to communicate with friends and discovered the journals of several students. By “be-friending” them and following their lives, I was able to find a natural and meaningful channel to help them. This process was later streamlined and evolved into: The Ubiquitous Reference Model. I am trying to push this concept further in both the physical and virtual context. This blog asks you to rethink the […]

Wooohoo… take a look and comment if you’d like! http://heleneblowers.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/5/23/1978472.html

Library Bloggers are Cordially Invited to Join ALA President-Elect Leslie Burger At a Reception to Honor Gulf Coast Librarians Affected by Hurricane Katrina Saturday, June 24, 2006 10:30 pm – Midnight Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel Bienville Suite 27th Floor Two Poydras Street New Orleans, LA 70140 R.S.V.P. by June 14, 2006 800-545-2433, ext. 4258 rsvp@ala.org

Don’t miss: http://medlibrarian.net I met Mary and Darren at CIL and they had a lot of good things to say, so take a look at their blog! (but, why no comments?) OOPS! I misread the about page! Comments are open. Forgive me, med Librarians!

Just a pointer and a note: http://blog.njla.org/ File this under how to do it GOOD for state level library associations!

Jenny welcomes Mary Ghikas to the Biblioblogosphere! And I, too, am just tickled! Cluetrain Manifesto #3 & #4: Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice. | Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. Mary Ghikas on the Biblioblogosphere from her first blog post: As I’ve explored the “biblioblogosphere,” I’ve been struck by several things. First has been the vitality and generosity of the professional exchange taking place. I have shamelessly grabbed references to other blogs and web sites, to interesting papers and new […]

Steve Lawson, author of See Also, RULES the SCHOOL today! Subscribe to TTW Comments Steve emailed: To get this to work, go to Templates, and create a new index template. I named mine “RSS 2.0 Comments” and gave it the filename “comments.xml”. Cut and paste the code below. Save and rebuild and see what show up at https://tametheweb.com/comments.xml If it looks OK-ish, let me know and I’ll subscribe and see how it looks in my aggregator. -Steve Steve included the code and I followed his directions and BOOM! comments! Thanks Steve!