1. Blogging for the Bewildered Libraries for Nursing Study Day June 2007 Anne Welsh Information Officer DrugScope (Image from Finding Your Life Work (1940) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBANGqNZ8_g)

2. Most frequently asked question: “How techie do you need to be for Library 2.0?” (Image from Finding Your Life Work (1940) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBANGqNZ8_g)

3. Blogging Entry Screens CMS Blogger

5. Bookmarking Entry Screen

6. http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:AnneWelsh

7. Wiki Entry Screen

9. If the technology’s easy, what are the challenges? (Image from Finding Your Life Work (1940) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBANGqNZ8_g)

10. Audience Your existing user group? Your wider community? Users of similar services? One audience or many? –Nurses / midwives / allied professions? (Image from Finding Your Life Work (1940) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBANGqNZ8_g)

11. Subject-Matter What’s already out there? –Blogs –Websites –Discussion groups / online communities –Newsletters (print / online) Something new to say? Tone? –Editorial / commentary? (Image from Finding Your Life Work (1940) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBANGqNZ8_g)

12. As information professionals, we have a big advantage over other Web 2.0 authors as we have a relationship with our users and a range of services they find useful (Image from Your Life Work: Librarian (1947) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrrZpbvI20&eurl=)

13. Current Service Reading Lists Study guides FAQs Information Literacy training New books / journals / reports Web 2.0 Application Social bookmarks Blog posts Wiki entries / blog posts Blog posts / wikis / screencasts Blog posts / feeds direct from catalogue (Image from Finding Your Life Work (1940) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBANGqNZ8_g)

14. You can semi-automate blog posts from the catalogue >>>>>> (Image from Your Life Work: Librarian (1947) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrrZpbvI20&eurl=)

15. New acquisitions make for frequent posts If you can’t be frequent be regular –To avoid

16. In short It’s the content that makes for a good blog, wiki or set of bookmarks. And the content need be no different from the material we’ve been producing for years (hence the old pictures) (Image from Your Life Work: Librarian (1947) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrrZpbvI20&eurl=)

17. Some Other Uses Keeping up-to-date - aggregators Reflective practice – blogs Organising events, meetings, other collaborative projects – wikis “Favourites” at home & work / across different desks – social bookmarking Working collaboratively on documents – Google docs (Image from Your Life Work: Librarian (1947) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrrZpbvI20&eurl=)

18. Anne Welsh, DrugScope anneb@drugscope.org.uk A Day in the Life of a Web 2.0 Librarian (Image from Your Life Work: Librarian (1947) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrrZpbvI20&eurl=)