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Creating and maintaining a blog - and - the Archives Hub experience Jane Stevenson & Amanda Hill
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What is a blog? Short for Weblog Diary-type commentary Individual / topic based Personal reflections, news, events, reviews, analysis Typical blog: text, images, comments, archive, links to other related sites, feed Part of Web 2.0 – social, collaborative
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First thoughts It is easy to set a blog up… but: What is its purpose? What are the advantages of doing it? Will you make regular entries? Over 70 million blogs; large number not used
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Why create a blog? Raise awareness Build connections Articulate your thoughts Enable feedback (comment) An accessible means of communication that takes very little time to set up Keep in tune with current technologies
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Why not create a blog Nobody will read it…? Pressure to blog Need to keep up with…everything Danger of indiscretion Other avenues of communication are more effective Better not to have a blog than one you hardly use
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Blog approaches Formal –repository news; organised events; announcements; critique Informal –general news; comments; anecdotes; humour; discussion; personal experiences; raise ideas
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Setting up a blog Easy to create, edit and publish Use of blog hosting service Keep blog files on own system (FTP) Maintenance usually through browser- based interface Set up: register; choose template; a few settings…that’s about it for a basic blog Proofread, spell check, cite sources, add plenty of links
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Blogs and RSS RSS/Atom feed for your blog Syndication (process) RSS/Atom (technology) Feed readers display new posts New items automatically discovered and downloaded Many feed readers (Netvibes)
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Maintaining a blog Group blog (works well with more informal blog) Guest bloggers Blog entries that encourage comments (may increase motivation!) Visit and comment on other blogs Check reactions to your blog (Technorati)
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Archives Hub Blog
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Why? Part of Hub mission is to act as a centre of expertise on electronic cataloguing Pride ourselves on being quick to react to new developments in technology within the service Means we keep an eye on interoperability issues, new reports etc. Mechanism for updating each other and Hub contributors on items of interest
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How? Set up blog using Blogger in February 2006 Very easy to do Blogger offers option of hosting blog on our own website: –www.archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/
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What happened next… Experimental service Announcements about Hub developments Reports on conferences attended, reviews of publications Special features
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Benefits Helps to build team spirit – a joint effort RSS/Atom feeds of posts come as standard – content can be presented in ways that best suit the users Sometimes get conversations going
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More benefits Raises awareness of Archives Hub beyond our usual constituency Starts up new dialogues Makes us more thoughtful about what we’re doing and why
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Own hosting has some issues
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Control freakery See who is linking to your blog See how authoritative your blog is Even see how much it’s worth!
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