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Rethinking Your Library Blog

Rethinking Your Library Blog. Amy Burger. Question time!. Blog?. A blog is a plant. frequency. brevity. personality. Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger. Tips. Always use an image Deliver your content Strive to improve Seek inspiration. Tips. Always use an image

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Rethinking Your Library Blog

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  1. Rethinking Your Library Blog Amy Burger

  2. Question time!

  3. Blog?

  4. A blog is a plant

  5. frequency brevity personality • Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger

  6. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  7. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  8. Getting Images • Take your own • Microsoft Clip Art • Flickr Creative Commons • Wikimedia Commons • Screenshots

  9. Blog Success • Definition of success? • Library blogs~newsletters • Challenge: readers must come to blog

  10. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  11. Deliver your content • Visibility: RSS • Interactivity: bring posts to Facebook

  12. http://homer.gsu.edu/blogs/library/

  13. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  14. Blogging Resources • ProBlogger.net • Mashable.com • Effective Blogging for Libraries, Crosby • Library Blogging, Coombs & Griffey

  15. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  16. Writers’ Block 

  17. Planning Content Your library Online Inspiration LIS News.org Omnivoracious.com Libraryland.tumblr.com Librarianista.tumblr.com Google News “library” Neatorama Mental Floss • Events • Services • Resources • Hours • Maintenance • Features • Changes • Collections

  18. Lost your muse?

  19. Fresh Ideas • Guest posts • Embed video • Roundup • Readers ♥ lists • Reviews • Format

  20. Questions? Thank you! Amy Burger abburger@northgeorgia.edu ngcsulibrary.edublogs.org

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