Article: Blogging Essential to a Good Career!
Well… possibly not in EVERY field, but check this Boston Globe article out: Blogs ‘essential’ to a good career. The author makes some good points:
“It’s [a blog] the new public relations and it’s the new home page … it’s a way to let people know what you are thinking about the field that interests [...]
Bloglines is My Friend
LISHosts just had some database woes, and as a result, my last 4 posts were lost (Blake restored from Sunday’s backup - thank goodness for backups). Dang, I thought!
But no problem after all - here’s what I did:
I subscribe to my own blog using Bloglines, so I clicked that feed under “My Feeds”
Down at the [...]
Tips for Effective Blog Reading
The Nev n Dave blog has some great tips for blog reading. Ten, actually. Tips I think are useful include:
#5 - limit how many feeds you subscribe to on a particular topic. [me] - good suggestion. Do you really need to read 100 blogs on the same topic? Probably not. Another similar idea - why [...]
Blogging Delivered
Anyone else seen these signs around your community? I actually took a few pics (see them here, here, here, here, and here).
AT&T is doing some large publicity thing with billboards touting words like Productivity, Blogging, etc… The others are same-ole-same-ole marketing billboards, but the blogging one - I think it’s pretty cool!
Why is it cool? [...]
Testing Performancing
Update: the automatic Technorati tags didn’t work. I’ll have to look into that some more…
I am testing out Performancing, which just released a blog editor / firefox extension (found through Steven Cohen over at Library Stuff). It’s pretty cool! Take a look at it in the first image - that’s me starting this blog post.
As [...]
“The point of a scholarly text”
From the Wall Street Journal, quoting Gorman:
“The point of a scholarly text is they are written to be read sequentially from beginning to end, making an argument and engaging you in dialogue.”
Come on. I went to college. I (and probably many other students) didn’t read the full text - we scanned for the good bits [...]
John Blyberg is Blogging
I met John at Internet Librarian - we were on a panel in the public libraries track. He also gave a presentation later in the week on his library’s site (www.aadl.org).
And… he has a blog - http://www.blyberg.net/
Check it out! Seems a bit heavy on code (warning for non-techies), but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. [...]
Reading Lots of Blogs
Meredith, in her Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors, says “I don’t know how those of you who read more than 200 blogs manage to do it! I can barely keep up with 120 blogs (many of which I rarely read in their entirety). I guess there is a different between subscribing to a [...]
Corporate Blogging Guidelines
I found these via the Working Smart blog. It’s a nicely done set of blogging guidelines for the blogger’s company (Thomas Nelson Publishers). The Guidelines walk an employee through the blogging process from start to finish - very cool.
You should definitely go read them if interested, but here are the high points:
Start with a blogging [...]
One Year Blogging Anniversary
I’m celebrating the (approximate) one year anniversary of my blog. Woo hoo, party party! So bear with me a sec as I reflect upon my year of being online, and think a little about the next year.
Last August, I started to blog about library technology types of things semi-regularly. One year later, I’m still blogging, [...]
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