You-promotion or Me-promotion?

Just saw this on Seth Godin’s blog today, and thought I’d pass it along. Go read it - but here’s the jist:

Seth writes about self-promotion
He explains that 37 Signals doesn’t do self-promotion, because they’re “promoting useful ideas. They’re promoting tactics or products that actually benefit the person they’re reaching out to.”

Then he sums it up [...]

Valuing Users by Allowing Comments

Casey Bisson said this during his Internet Librarian 2007 presentation: “sites that allow comments value their users.” When he said that, my mind started making connections… what a great way to illustrate why the ability to comment is such an amazing thing to include on a website! So riffing off that quote, here are some [...]

Casa Grande Library System is Twittering!

Casa Grande Library System is twittering (at http://twitter.com/cglibrary)! Looks like they’re dumping news from their RSS feeds into their twitter account.
This is the first actual library system I’ve heard of that’s twittering… anyone else know of a twittering library (ok - I realize that sounds funny…)?
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Three Types of Website Content? I Don’t Think So

Shane Diffily has a blog, wrote a book on website management, and posted this article (I think to help sell his book). The artcicle states that “website content can typically be classed into one of three types” - then he lists the types of website content - content that ” persuades, sells, and reassures.
I think [...]

How to Write Blog Post headlines

Gee - mine’s not nearly as good as the original post’s headline: Writing Headlines That Get Results. Go take a peek at this post, though - there are some great suggestions in it about writing better headlines for your blog posts.
The ideas presented ALSO apply to library websites in general - we can all work [...]

Writing for the Web

Website content & usability is an extremely useful article on writing for the web. The author gives eight guidelines:
1. Use clear and simple language - the KISS principle.
2. Limit each paragraph to one idea - Believe it or not, you learned this in high school english class. Really. And it still applies today.
3. Front-load content [...]