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Blogging 101 for Librarians

The following presentation was delivered by Vernon R. Totanes at the 13th General Conference of the Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (Manila, Philippines; 29 March 2006)

Notes
  • Bloggers, non-bloggers
  • Predominantly Filipino
  • Prerequisite: email address
  • Free resources
  • Online citations

Overview
  • Definitions
  • Examples
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Issues

Blogging is changing the media world and could, I think, foment a revolution in how journalism functions in our culture.
- Andrew Sullivan (2002)


What is a Blog?
  • From "web log" to "weblog" to "blog"
  • Originally "logs of links to websites" (Cohen 2005)
  • Entries
  • - List of items received
    - Record of visitors
    - Diary
  • Arranged in reverse chronological order (Blood 2003)

Other Features
  • Name
  • Content or posts
  • Links
  • Archives
  • RSS feed

Posts
  • Title
  • Date/time
  • Permalink
  • Categories
  • Comments

Other Definitions
  • "Define:blog" on Google
  • Use same syntax for definition of other words

Uses of "Blog"
  • Noun: blog
  • Verb: to blog
  • Bloggers
  • Blogosphere
  • Biblioblogosphere
  • Blograrians

A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web.
- Michael Gorman (2005)


Some people use paper to write insightful articles... Some people use paper to write grocery lists... Paper has been used for journalism, diaries, scribbling, gossip... The same is true on blogs.
- Danah Boyd (2005)


Popular Blogs

Lists

Institutional blogs

Southeast Asia

Frappr’s Blogging Librarians

From Frappr’s Blogging Librarians


Singapore

Philippines

Read: Why?
  • Latest news and/or articles
  • Professional development (LavallĂ©e-Welch 2005; ppt)
  • Monitor blogs

RSS
  • Really Simple Syndication
  • Subscribe and organize
  • - Same subject
    - Priority
  • Bloglines
  • Online tutorials (see Rai 2005)
  • Subscribe to newspapers, magazines, websites

Search and Participate

Write: Why?
  • Experimenting with technology
  • Preserve thoughts (public or private)
  • Raise personal or institutional profile
  • Promoting library services (Fichter 2003)

Decisions
  • Personal blog: real name or anonymous? (e.g., Feel-good Librarian)
  • Work-related matters: institution and/or co-employees
  • Institutional blog: permission?
  • Blogger, WordPress or others?
  • Audience? Subject? Frequency?

Issues
  • Time
  • Control
  • Ethics
  • - HBR case study (Suitt 2003)
    - "Every blog produced by librarians, no matter how casual, represents librarianship to the world" (Schneider 2005)
  • Digital divide

Conclusion
  • Filipino Librarian
  • Benefits
  • - Writing skills, HTML
    - Online resources
    - Network
    - What can and must be done
    - Reference questions
  • Responsible blogging

Categories: Consal XIII, Blogging, About Vonjobi

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