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Blog and Wiki Basics Mini-Session A3 - PSLA Conference April 13, 2007 Gail Junion-Metz

Blog and Wiki Basics Mini-Session A3 - PSLA Conference April 13, 2007 Gail Junion-Metz. Blog Facts. Every day 12,000 new blogs are ‘born’ 64% of bloggers blog to share their knowledge or skills with others 54% haven’t published in any other medium

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Blog and Wiki Basics Mini-Session A3 - PSLA Conference April 13, 2007 Gail Junion-Metz

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  1. Blog and Wiki Basics Mini-Session A3 - PSLA ConferenceApril 13, 2007 Gail Junion-Metz

  2. Blog Facts • Every day 12,000 new blogs are ‘born’ • 64% of bloggers blog to share their knowledge or skills with others • 54% haven’t published in any other medium • 46% of women, 54% of men create blogs

  3. What is a Blog? A weblog (often shortened to blog, but often spelled as two words - web log) is a web-based publication that contains periodically updated content (sometimes diary-like) often in reverse chronological order

  4. Blog Evolution • Initially a blog was a record/log of a person’s “web travels” • Blogs then became online journals / diaries • Now blogs are used for a wide variety of purposes

  5. Types of Blogs • Personal • Topical • News / Events • Organizational • Collaborative • Educational / Corporate • Media

  6. Blog Terminology • Blogger– person who maintains a blog • Blogging – the act of creating a blog • Blogroll – a list of other blogs • Blogosphere – the world of blogs • Aggregator / RSS Feed – how blog content gets updated in real time • Post – content added to a blog

  7. Why Create a Blog? • Kids / teens / teachers love them! • They’re fast / easy for busy folks to read • They keep folks up-to-date on things going on at the library (or on new books, reviews of books…and lots more!)

  8. Why Create a Blog? • They’re simple to create and update • They’re cheap (free - $40 per year) • Staff don’t need to know HTML or FTP • Takes the workload off your Webmaster • Lets interested staff get involved • Can use it for communicating internally with staff and externally with parents

  9. Creating a Simple Blog 1. Connect to Blogger www.blogger.com

  10. Creating a Simple Blog 2. Create an Account

  11. Creating a Simple Blog 3. Name Your Blog

  12. Creating a Simple Blog 4. Choose a Template

  13. Creating a Simple Blog 4. Create your Blog

  14. Blog Websites / Software BloggerBlogwareClass BlogmeisterLive JournalMoveable TypeTypePadWordPressXanga

  15. Is it a Blog or a Website? • Permalinks (links to posts in weblogs) • Comments (readers can comment on posts) • Blogroll (list of other related blogs) • Categories (posts arranged into categories) • Archives (older posts sorted into folders)

  16. How Libraries Use Blogs • Library News Marin Co. Free Library Blog • ReferenceSt. Joseph Co PL Blog • Book DiscussionsRoselle PL – Blogger Book Club

  17. How Libraries Use Blogs • Teens Framingham PL – Teen Blogmatic

  18. How Librarians Use Blogs • Online ReferenceDigital Reference • Information LiteracyInformation Literacy Land of Confusion • New TechnologiesThe Shifted Librarian

  19. How Librarians Use Blogs • Tech ServicesCatalogablog • Books for KidsKids Lit

  20. Blog Search Tools Blog SearchBlog Search EngineBlogdiggerBlogwiseBloogzFeedsterIceRocketTechnorati Blog Search

  21. Once You Have a Blog… • Teach staff to add posts & archive posts • Teach them what your Blog contains • Teach kids about Blog search tools • Make staff/students aware of your Blog • Write about it in your newsletter / newspaper • Add the URL to sigfiles / printed lib. pubs • Hold classes for staff/students on blog basics

  22. Once You Have a Blog… • Add links to Blog search tools to your Website • Add links to popular topical blogs to your Website (or even better to a Blog!)

  23. What is a Wiki? • Wiki is the Hawaiian word for “quick” • Term coined by programmer Ward Cunningham in 1995 • It’s a web-based collaborative tool • It lets lots of folks add to and edit Wiki content

  24. Wiki Principles • Anyone can change anything – both reading and editing are possible (and encouraged) • No individual page ownership or authoring - community owned / created • Rarely organized by chronology (unlike blogs) – organized by topic

  25. Wikipedia • A collaborative ‘encyclopedia’ created by multiple content creators

  26. Wikipedia • 5 million articles in over 200 languages • 11th most visited site on the web • No ads, non-profit • Problems • Lack of authority • Lack of citations • Hard to evaluate accuracy • Inconsistent quality • ‘Vandals’

  27. Why Create a Wiki? • Very easy to add / edit content • Cheap to create (free - $50 per year) • Folks can correct errors, add comments to existing text • Content in searchable

  28. Wiki Websites / Software MediaWikiTiddlyWikiWet PaintWikiWikiWebWikia

  29. How Libraries Can Use Wikis • Library ConferencesALA Conference 2006 Wiki • Collaborative ProjectsIPL Teen Poetry Wiki • Group Book Reviews / DiscussionsPrinceton PL – Book Lovers Wiki

  30. How Libraries Can Use Wikis • Professional Discussions Teen Lib Wiki • Online Topical ‘Clearinghouses’Library Instruction Wiki • Focus on ‘Local Interest’ Topics Hershey Information Wiki

  31. Once You Have a Wiki… • Teach folks to add & edit Wiki content • Add links to popular Wikis to your website • Make folks aware of your Wiki • Write about it in your newsletter / newspaper • Add the URL to sigfiles / printed lib. pubs • Hold classes for students/staff on Wiki basics

  32. You can download this PowerPoint at http://www.iage.com/PAblogwiki.ppt

  33. Gail Junion-MetzInformation Age Consultants 310 North Bridge Street DeWitt, MI 48820 (517) 668-2130 gail@iage.com

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