It’s All Worth It
February 19th, 2005Doug Mason from The Buena Park Library District writes in:
“I just wanted to alert you to some changes I have made to our library’s website in order to incorporate blogging and RSS. I know this is a rudimentary use of the technology (particularly since I am not yet an adequate programmer) due to my use of third-party services, but so far this has been working great for both me (my workload!) and for the public (they get their updates on our new happenings far faster now).
The stats on our website are increasing quickly, and I have only had this setup going for about 5 weeks. I just added the tips for subscribing to Bloglines on the homepage. The updates above those tips (which are above the XML icon) are actually feeds from my feedburner service that link to the blog. Comments are currently turned off for obvious reasons until I can find a work-around (crazed naughty comments must be weeded out first!). I did include the “send email” function that Blogger has for facilitating the user in communicating events to friends or other interested parties.”
Doug attended an RSS presentation that Jenny and I did at Internet Librarian in November. Doug gets it and is proof that you don’t have to know much about programming to get news out to your users via weblogs and RSS technology.
Doug’s library has a weblog, uses an Feedburner feed, and has an introduction to RSS, which is essential to new users. I just love seeing that orange button on the front of library web sites. Thanks Doug.