Blogtastic! Making It Easy to Stay on Top of Your Professional Reading A presentation by Shelly Drumm With help from Trudy Cleveland, Judy Caramanica, and Denise Coles
What We Will Cover Definitions A brief history of blogging Use and management of blogs Finding relevant blogs Using an RSS aggregator
For Another Time… Setting up a blog Instructional applications That other time… Feb 24 at Central College CIC TBA at NW College CIC
Brief Definition Web-based Journal Regularly updated Maintained by one or many Dedicated to specific topic Personal diaries Corporations Academic disciplines / Professions Current Events
In The Beginning… 1997 – “Weblog” coined Evolved from usenet groups Link sharing Often techy in nature 1999 – “Blog” coined Blogger.com is launched Emerging into more mainstream uses
The Blog-splosion War bloggers Matt Welch Instapundit Lefty political mavens Atrios Daily Kos Etc…
And More… Word of the year, 2004 Rathergate and Lott’s fall Campaigns Dean Bush Kerry
And More…
Why They’re Different Frequent posts Anyone can do it! Blogger.com Livejournal.com Etc. Syndication Comments Less formal venue
Mainstream Media?
Great Professional Tools Immediate Current Learning from the best Blogrolls Community-building Syndication
RSS/XML/Atom feeds My Yahoo! or MyMsn Headlines Sports scores Stock quotes RSS Aggregators/ Feed Readers
More About RSS Blogs aren’t the only ones NY Times CNN BBC ESPN And on, and on… More:
And On To The Demo Look at examples Find discipline specific blogs Set up an RSS aggregator Creating an account Subscribing to blogs