Working Your Community’s Blogosphere

Recently, Darren Rowse at ProBlogger posted Five Reasons Why Mom Blogs Are the Blogs to Watch. Darren says “Mom blogs are poised to become the next big “It” when it comes to the internet–they’re gathering power like no other blogging niche and will only get bigger and better.” Then he lists some reasons why - [...]

CIL2008, Day 2: Making Time for Web 2.0

Here’s a link to the presentation I gave at Computers in Libraries, titled Making Time for Web 2.0
Enjoy!

Participating in Digital Community, or Lots of Links to David

I’ve been doing some thinking about all the different digital communities I participate in on the web, so I thought I’d create a list of them. It’s not a short list.
Things I use the most:

My blog (it’s an active community)
Flickr
Twitter (as I write this post, someone else just started following me on Twitter!)
Facebook
del.icio.us
AIM (I’m [...]

PLA 2008, Day 2: The Cutting Edge: The Latest Information on Web 2.0

Michael Stephens, John Blyberg and Jen Maney
Jen’s title: Let’s Get Excited (and realistic) about Web 2.0
“not really a technological phenomenon at all; it’s a social one, enabled by technology.”
Can’t understand new tools in the abstract - you have to use them.
They have an emerging technologies team - they help evaluate services and new stuff
They think [...]

Library Camp Kansas 2008: 2.0 Session

what is 2.0?
1.0 - one way street, static page2.0 - back and forth, interaction
this conference is a good example - it’s all about us, vs 1.0 conference that’s focused elsewhere
how does 2.0 work in an academic library?
ex - comment cards from users, blog posts are the comments and the library’s response to the comment - [...]

Library Camp Kansas 2008: 2.0 Session

what is 2.0?
1.0 - one way street, static page2.0 - back and forth, interaction
this conference is a good example - it’s all about us, vs 1.0 conference that’s focused elsewhere
how does 2.0 work in an academic library?
ex - comment cards from users, blog posts are the comments and the library’s response to the comment - [...]

New Digital Branch

Some of you might have noticed I’ve been dropping very vague hints on this blog about my library’s website redesign… well, no more vagueness! In fact - how about checking it out for yourselves? Go to webdev.tscpl.org and and see what my web team has been busy creating.
A few asides:

If something doesn’t work, most likely [...]

The Web Is Not Virtual

At some point in my talks, I usually mention how websites are changing from a virtual brochure with lists of services to something a bit more “real” - but it can be difficult to explain that concept! I usually show an active library blog with comments, and discuss the website as a form of digital [...]

Has Elvis Left the Building?

Gee whiz. Every now and then, someone decides to share that some new-fangled “library 2.0″ project didn’t work out … and others start claiming “After John Blyberg and others come out and say that library 2.0 didn’t work and neither did tagging, etc., the flood gates open.” Huh?
It might be good to remember two things:

If [...]

ProBlogger on Inviting Participation

The ProBlogger blog has a great post on how to invite participation in your blog. Here are some bullet points from the article:

Reveal what you don’t know - admitting you don’t know something makes you seem real
Ask a Question - ideas: tie it to the thing you don’t know, or ask for experiences or examples
Run [...]

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