Monday, February 14, 2005

Welcome

Steven M. Cohen

PubSub Concepts, Inc
Library Stuff

Presentation URL: http://www.stevenmcohen.info/yale02152005/

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Thinking Ahead

“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.”
- Rosabeth Moss Cantor

“Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.”
- Charles Schwab

“It’s better to be ahead of the curve than to be behind it.”
- Me

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Why Stay Ahead?

  • Justify our existence

  • Users will look to the library as a place of currency, not just archives

  • Is "Good Enough" good enough?

  • Professional development is key

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    Quick Overview of Weblogs

  • Website, listed chronologically, with written content and links.

  • Most use software for easy publication.

  • Calendars, Permalinks, Archives, RSS, blogroll, comments.

  • Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy…

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    Professional Library Weblogs

  • Library Stuff

  • LISNews

  • Resourceshelf

  • The Shifted Librarian

  • Librarian.net

  • Tame The Web

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    Why Should My Library Have A Blog?

  • Easy to distribute content

  • Communication within the building (reference desk)

  • Great for Library Web pages

  • Library News

  • Reference Desk Discussion (FARQs, patrons, etc)

  • New Acquisitions

  • Consortia

  • Book Clubs

  • Backend CMS only

  • Post from the road...literally (Demo)

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    Weblog Advantages

  • Easy, Easy, Easy, Easy, Easy to publish

  • No need to download software (if you don't want to_

  • Open source, open access feeling

  • Interactive

  • No Rules

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    Disadvantages

  • Information Overload?!

  • Have to continuously update them

  • Takes time

  • Crossposting

  • Subjective

  • Reliability of content

  • No Rules

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    Examples

  • Waterboro Public Library

  • Georgia State University Libraries

  • Rosedale Public Library Blogger Book Club

  • Construction Diary

  • University of Minnesota Libraries

  • Wisconsin Library Association

  • Metropolitan Library System

  • Hospital Library Advocacy

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    Sunday, February 13, 2005

    Getting National Associations Excited About Blogging

    In January, we launched the PLA Blog:

  • Group (un)structured blogging at ALA Midwinter

  • Playing along at home

  • Collective intelligence

  • Blogging as Social Software

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    Searching Weblog Content

  • Feedster

  • Blogdigger

  • Blogstreet

  • Waypath

  • Daypop

  • PubSub

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    LIS Specific

  • Peter Scott’s List

  • ODP Library Weblogs

  • Blog Without a Library

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    Marketing the Librarian

  • Stand out in the crowd

  • Ease of use

  • Best way to publish without trade publications (on your own terms)

  • Finding your niche

  • Marketing the Librarian

  • Write everyday

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    RSS 101

  • Steven's view of the web via RSS (demo)


  • Bloglines (demo)


  • List of News Aggregators (client and server based) - From Peter Scott

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    Examples

  • Chronicle of Higher Education

  • Reuters

  • New York Times

  • Christian Science Monitor

  • Time Magazine

  • USA Today

  • ESPN

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    Customization is Key

    Search

  • Topix

  • Hubmed

  • Ingenta Connect

  • Yahoo News Search (ALA Trick)

  • Wired News

  • PubSub

  • Feedster

  • Technorati

  • Moreover

  • Daypop

  • ODP Directory Feeds

  • Find Articles




    • Open Tagging Systems

  • Furl

  • del.icio.us

  • Connotea

  • Cite U Like

  • Digg It

  • Unalog

  • Technorati

  • Tagsurf

  • FeedMarker


    • Fun Stuff

  • Amazon

  • Amazon Wish Lists

  • Ebay

  • UPS/Fed-EX/USPS

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    RSS in Your Library

  • RSS in Your ILS (Jenny Levine)

  • New Books

  • Automatic RSS Feed with most weblog software

  • Library Elf

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    Thanks

    Contact Information

    AOL IM - nylibrarian
    skype - stevenmcohen
    phone - 631-645-4516
    e-mail - stevenmcohen [at] gmail [dot] com

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