Rethinking Your Library Blog

Amy Burger

Question time!

Blog?

A blog is a plant

frequencybrevity

personalityEvan Williams, co-founder of Blogger

Tips• Always use an

image• Deliver your

content• Strive to

improve• Seek inspiration

Tips• Always use an

image• Deliver your

content• Strive to

improve• Seek inspiration

Getting Images• Take your own• Microsoft Clip

Art• Flickr Creative

Commons• Wikimedia

Commons• Screenshots

Blog Success• Definition of

success?• Library

blogs~newsletters

• Challenge: readers must come to blog

Tips• Always use an

image• Deliver your

content• Strive to

improve• Seek inspiration

Deliver your content

• Visibility: RSS • Interactivity:

bring posts to Facebook

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

Tips• Always use an

image• Deliver your

content• Strive to

improve• Seek inspiration

Blogging Resources

• ProBlogger.net• Mashable.com• Effective Blogging

for Libraries, Crosby

• Library Blogging, Coombs & Griffey

Tips• Always use an

image• Deliver your

content• Strive to

improve• Seek inspiration

Writers’ Block

Planning ContentYour library• Events• Services• Resources• Hours• Maintenance• Features• Changes• Collections

Online Inspiration• LIS News.org• Omnivoracious.com• Libraryland.tumblr.co

m• Librarianista.tumblr.c

om• Google News “library”• Neatorama• Mental Floss

Lost your muse?

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

Questions?Thank you!

Amy Burgerabburger@northgeorgia

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