Using%20Blogs%20Effectively%20Within%20Your%20Library%20What%20Next?

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Using Blogs Effectively Within Your Library What
Next?
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• Brian Kelly
• UKOLN
• University of Bath
• Bath, UK
• B.Kelly_at_ukoln.ac.uk

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Contents
Case Study

• Introduction
• Case Studies
• Reasons For Having a Library Blog
• Approaches to Providing a Blogging Services
• Institution Barriers
• Addressing the Barriers
• Sharing Best Practices
• What Next?
• Building A Community
• What Have You Learnt?
• Personal Action Plans
• Conclusions

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Building A Community

• Youre in the process of setting up a blog or you
  have a blog which you want to enhance.
• Discussing options, sharing experiences, learning
  from mistakes made by others can be useful
• Options for sharing
• Engagement with mailing lists (e.g. lis-bloggers)
• Participation in social networks (e.g. Ning,
  Facebook, etc.)
• Participation at events (e.g. ILI 2008!)

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What Have You Learnt?

• Some questions
• What new aspects of blogging have you learnt from
  todays masterclass?
• To what extend has todays masterclass confirmed
  existing views or experiences?
• What will you do differently as a result of
  todays workshop?

Personal Action Plans To help your reflections,
please complete the Personal Action Plans handout
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Questions

• Any questions?