Blog session at Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium
May 25th, 2004The Family Man Librarian has a wrap-up of Darlene Fichter’s video-conference today on using weblogs as library marketing tools:
“I particularly appreciated her emphasis on establishing an editor and/or editorial guidelines for library blogs to which more than one person contributes. This is exactly the kind of thing I have set up for my library and her point helped to solidify some ideas I’ve had about how best to operate the whole thing. Darlene also emphasized the need to establish a particular “voice” or “niche” for a weblog. I’ve heard that before but her mention of it again helped me to think more about what “voice” or “niche” I would want my library’s weblog to have. She also pointed out the flexibility of a weblog in terms of being able to use the information posted to it in various ways. For instance, the output of a weblog could be in email form, delivered via a newsreader, presented as a static webpage, or fed into an institutional portal environment. The latter point in particular struck a chord with me because my institution is introducing a portal environment beginning with the fall semester. Overall this was a very thorough and well presented session and I’m glad we drove all the way over to Cincinnati to attend it.”