Weblogs as Career Boosters
April 14th, 2004Dave links to this article from the Christian Science Monitor. I was most impressed with the last section:
“Although making a living just blogging is nearly impossible, a blog can have a great deal of career value by demonstrating one’s expertise and writing skills, thus serving as a “reputation builder,” Blood says by phone from San Francisco. “You can quickly establish yourself as an expert in your field by becoming a kind of one-stop source for information.”
This is exactly what I like to get across in my presentations and articles on weblogs. There are still areas in library science that haven’t been fully explored in weblog format. One recent one that has caught the attention of librarians is RFID in libraries. The neat thing about our profession is that it is constantly changing. Weblogs can fill the void (and the need) in collecting content in one place to make like a bit easier.