Public Libraries & Web Logs

No one cares that you have a blog…
Aaron Schmidt

It isn’t about the technology (for the patrons)

It is about Connecting (and what they can do with your web site)

Example: Lamson Library at Plymouth State University

Cool tools to add stuff to your Blog

• Flickr
• Post from flickr
• Create badges

• New Materials on Flickr
• Westmont Library (pictures of new books, with added notes with direct links into opac)

• Firefox 2.0
• Built in spell check
• Auto RSS tool

• MeeboMe
• Widget for Blog (chat)

Blog Elsewhere

• Comment elsewhere to get readers to your own

Follow-through

• Have some (aka LOTS of) content planned (video, text, audio) must be updated