There’s a whole track on blogs up in the Steinbeck room. First up was Jenny Levine, aka The Shifted Librarian. Her plea was that librarians consider local blogs as an additional news outlet and inform them of upcoming events at the library so they can be posted to the blogs. Great way to bring in younger people. She also urged these announcements not be phrased as “the library is doing this” but rather personalize it to “we are doing this.”
Next speaker is Greg Schwartz who’s talking about finding information on blogs. He’s touching on Feedster, Waypath, PubSub, Daypop, PopDex, and Technorati. Screen shots, not live, which is too bad.
The blogging crowd is always hugely enthusiastic and I see several people with laptops open. Since I now seem to be able to connect in this room, which I couldn’t yesterday, I hope they’re blogging the sessions of blogging.
Marydee Ojala
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