Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/events/ili-2009-workshop/ Using Blogs, Micro-blogs and Social Networks in Your Library Case Study 1b: The JISC PoWR Blog Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk Acceptable Use Policy Recording/broadcasting of this talk, taking photographs, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Resources bookmarked using ‘ili2009-workshop' tag UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat)
Contents Case Study Introduction Case Studies Case Study 1b: The JISC PoWR Blog Background • Launching Sustaining • Learning Reasons For Having a Library Blog Beyond Blogs: Micro-blogs and Social Networks What are the Barriers? [exercise] Addressing the Barriers Sharing Best Practices What Next?
Purpose The JISC PoWR blog: Supported the JISC-funded PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) project Launched in April 2008 A team blog (ULCC, UKOLN and consultant) with 6 authors
Hosting The Blog Challenges: Two main services (UKOLN and ULCC) Focus is preservation of institutional resources Funded by JISC Where to host (UKOLN, ULCC, 3rd party?): Selected the JISC Involve hosting service:
Content on the Blog Where to store details of project workshops, workshop resources, final report, etc? Decided to use the blog
Contributing To The Blog Although a team blog, team members had differing levels of engagement This reflected differing working styles (e.g. those who were more comfortable editing 100-page final report)
Strengths and Weaknesses A team blog: Shared responsibilities Continued posting over holidays, etc. Broad content coverage (not just one individual’s areas of interest) Strengthens links between organisations But: May lacks clear ‘voice’ Pre-publication discussions may mean posts lose ‘edge’ May be seen to be too insular and self-congratulatory
Life after Funding Finishes JISC PoWR project officially finished in October 2008. Blog has continued since: Space for writing about preservation issues of interest (e.g. preservation of Twitter posts) Maintaining our visibility Avoiding the blog being forgotten about: Blog will be mothballed if we fail to post 3 posts in a month
Questions Any questions?