Comments on: Working Your Community’s Blogosphere

By: DaleA

DaleA — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:54:24 +0000

As a community gets smaller, it gets harder to sustain an online community, I think. Example: the Craigslist site for Manhattan is a wan, thin thing.

I took the time to start a local blog (mmbetter.wordpress.com), and actually have collaborators whom I have never met. Now if we only could post reliably, we might actually get somewhere. Most librarians I know are more civically minded than the typical resident of any community, so it makes sense for us to take the time to lead a bit of a push.

By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:00:58 +0000

KimRadcliffSmith – yes, you can quote me… I picked that sentence up from somewhere… the idea stuck in my head, but the originator didn’t (I think it was a report on MySpace or something similar).

By: KimRadcliffSmith

KimRadcliffSmith — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:22:53 +0000

I liked what you said at the end the best – “Because if you aren’t participating, you don’t exist.” May I quote you on my blog?

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Thu, 15 May 2008 15:52:58 +0000

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:04:26 +0000

I mostly follow locally through twitterwhere for my community. Very interesting posts. I found the only person who has an iphone in my community (or at least claims that). Most posts are not relating to the community, just snarky locations such as cow town, bumpkin, and the like.

However, I did discover a blogger through a technorati search who trashed the library because of its poor collection (didn’t have all of the Hitchikers guide to the galaxy series, and a librarian was rude to her for eating in the library.)

Many don’t reveal their location though. Furthermore, the more they identify their location, the less likely they are going to talk about anything specific (at least from what I know.)

By: Kelley

Kelley — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:44:17 +0000

Local blogs are some of the best places to find out what the community is thinking about, expecting, whining about and praising! The library can really customize programs and collections by paying close attention to the most popular local blogs – in Pittsburgh – it’s BurghGirl. I’d be interested to see if a library hosted some ‘burghgirl-inspired’ event (she’s never appeared in public as herself however!) how many non-library-users it would attract! In addition to that, I hear about new restaurants, reviews of local theatre, projects local government is planning – that somehow our local news didn’t get the scoop on. Local blogs are invaluable to any librarian!

By: David Wright

David Wright — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:51:35 +0000

I couldn’t agree more w/ this, although it is tempting to go after the biggest fishes in one’s community blogosphere. (For instance, our own library blog is having record traffic today off of mentions in a few influential local blogs, which feels great, although ultimately it is the NORMAL conversations that really build bonds and establish a library/librarian/library blog as a legitimate presence in the online community.

By: DaleA

DaleA — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:12 +0000

As a community gets smaller, it gets harder to sustain an online community, I think. Example: the Craigslist site for Manhattan is a wan, thin thing.

I took the time to start a local blog (mmbetter.wordpress.com), and actually have collaborators whom I have never met. Now if we only could post reliably, we might actually get somewhere. Most librarians I know are more civically minded than the typical resident of any community, so it makes sense for us to take the time to lead a bit of a push.

By: Tasha

Tasha — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:21:29 +0000

I do read all of the local blogs I am aware of, and this post has pushed me to seek out others. You are right that we need to have voices in our local digital worlds. Thanks for reminding me that I need to be on the look-out for opportunities to make our libraries shine online locally.