The ability to syndicate media and information, as well as involve people socially, make Web 2.0 tools perfect for marketing library events or services. More and more libraries are taking advantage of these cheap and easy options for connecting with patrons. Here are a few ideas for how to use Web 2.0 tools in your [...]
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Tag Archives: Blogging
Death of The Printed Blog
It appears as though The Printed Blog has met its inevitable end, with its founder pulling the plug earlier this week due to lack of advertising funds and investment capital. I originally wrote about The Printed Blog back in February and questioned its staying power. Though a fairly novel concept, it seemed like [...]
What is a Successful Blog?
While many ideas of what makes a successful blog can be fairly subjective, there are a few key components outlined by Meredith Farkas that most can agree upon.
Purpose or Focus
First among these is the necessity of a purpose or focus for the blog. The blog writer needs to know why they are there in order [...]
Blogs…on paper?
While most print media has rapidly eliminated its paper component in favor of a total online presence (or no presence at all), a company has decided to take blogs and reapply them to paper.
The Printed Blog takes posts submitted by local bloggers and turns them into a newspaper form, allowing blog reading to be both [...]
A beginner’s blog
My recollection of setting up a Wordpress blog from my LIBR-240 class (back at least a year and a half ago now), was that it was difficult, tedious, and not exactly intuitive. This is especially true if you really want to make it your own, to adapt and manipulate the themes, plugins, and widgets to [...]
