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The First Blog
- 1. Blogging to Improve Services Angela Rand [email_address] Orange Beach Public Library www.orangebeachlibrary.org
- 2. Definition Blog: A blog (or weblog ) is a website in which messages are posted and displayed with the newest at the top (Wikipedia).
- 3. Why Blog? It is easy to get a blog. Blog interfaces are easy to use. Blogs are interactive. Lists and links can be displayed. Blogs can be syndicated!
- 8. Benefits of a blog A blog can be private and relay administrative and operational messages. Open access blogs can be quickly updated to provide news, post art and pictures and details of events. A blog serves as an archive of information that would otherwise be lost.
- 9. Good News You can have more than one blog !
- 11. Plan your blog Define the purpose Define roles Find a host (Blogger is easiest to use) www.blogger.com
- 14. RSS: making the blog work for you RSS is a new technology that allows chosen blog comments to be delivered to your blog reader. RSS works with blogs to organize your information.
- 15. Definition RSS = Really simple syndication Rich site summary
- 16. RSS Readers An RSS reader is the gathering place for your news, or blog, feeds. RSS readers are aggregators that you set up to receive favorite blogments. Some free readers are: Bloglines My Yahoo IE v. 7 includes a web based feed reader. And Google has a web version of a reader.
- 17. Bloglines Reader
- 18. Logged in to my Bloglines
- 20. Conclusion The popularity of blogs is increasing and more features can be expected. Podcasts, widgets and other plug-ins are useful and fun means of sharing information. Blogs allow immediate control of information flow from the library to the public. The Orange Beach library regularly hosts classes on blogging and social software.
- 21. Thank you for inviting me.