1. Education Library Blog @ University of Pretoria Presentation by Johann van Wyk During the Library 2.0 Road Show 2008

2. To Blog or Not to Blog ? That is the Question

3. Steps before setting up your blog Determine: the purpose of your blog your target audience how the lay-out of your blog should look like which blogging programme will best suit your needs

4. Purpose and target audience of Blog To keep people informed of new trends and developments in services and products in the library as well as new trends and developments in the field of Education. Primary target: Students and academic staff of Faculty of Education Secondary target: researchers in the field of Education internationally (supports networking)

5. Lay-out of the blog Use templates/or own design? One column or more than one? Own header or template header? Copyright licence? More than one page? Widgets? Comments?

6. Deciding on right Blogging programme There are many programmes to choose from:

7. Why we decided on Wordpress? Many university libraries are using Wordpress. We used Cubberley Education Library’s Blog at Stanford University as a benchmark. Wordpress had many of the features we wanted in a blog. You could easily add your own widgets to the blog (Customizable) The lay-out of the blog templates looked very professional The blog had a thorough statistical function The blog had a good Spam filter

8. Features of the Education Library Blog

9. Pages

10. About Page

11. Downloads Page

12. Permission Page

13. Example of permission

14. RSS Feeds

15. RSS Feeds (Continued)

17. Search function

18. Copyright

19. Creative Commons License

20. Widgets

21. Calendar Widget

22. Link to library web site

23. Link to RSS feed on new books at Education Library

24. Pages

25. Categories

26. Clustr Map

27. Clustr Map (Continued)

28. Monthly archiving

29. Google Page Translator

30. Example of page translated into Dutch

31. Example of page translated into Chinese

32. Link to Web 2.0 functionalities

33. Blog Stats

34. Login

35. Links to favourite sites

36. University rankings

37. Comments

38. Posts

39. Snapshots

40. Categories

41. Tags

42. Behind the scenes

43. Write posts or pages

44. Functionalities of writing a post

45. Functionalities of writing a post (Continued)

46. Blog Stats

47. Blogs Stats (Continued)

49. Blog Stats (Continued)

50. Akismet Spamfilter

51. Comments to E-mail

52. Comments approved on site

53. Settings

54. Privacy

55. Users and roles

56. Users and Roles (Continued)

57. Manage Function

58. Design Function

59. Finally "Blogs...are creating a richer, more dynamic Web, where participation is the rule, rather than the exception” (Will Richardson, Technology and Learning. 26(3) 2005 Oct. p.48) “Blogging is personal participation in public knowledge-building on the web”’, Chimera Working Paper 2005-02. Colchester: University of Essex.

60. Bibliography Brady, M. 2005. ‘Blogging, personal participation in public knowledge-building on the web’. In: Chimera Working Paper, 2005-02. Colchester: University of Essex. [Online] available: (http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/content/Pubs/wps/ CWP-2005-02-Blogging-in-the-Knowledge-Society- MB.pdf). Accessed: 28 October 2008.http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/content/Pubs/wps/ CWP-2005-02-Blogging-in-the-Knowledge-Society- MB.pdf Richardson, W. 2005. Blog revolution: expanding classroom horizons with Web logs. Technology and Learning, Oct, vol. 26, no.3, p.48.