Creating a Blog

I am not expert. I am new to blogging but have become fairly obsessive pretty quick. I have to check the blog. Has anyone posted? It is almost worse than email.
Blogging can be a means for expressing personal statements, exchanging information, social, or as I started one; for project management. I began a blog for communication between a committee that is scattered about NEPA to alleviate the volume of email (almost 300 for planning a workshop and still counting). http://nplnworkshopmanager.blogspot.com/ Now I have discovered a new tool, in lieu of PowerPoint as a presentation tool for teaching. Cool! Ideas for future blogs, Internet resource lists that can be updated by any member of the reference staff and a reference blog that can be used for anything from daily communication to wishlists. One example is of a reference department that keeps a blog as homepage for daily announcements, the proverbial desk notebook (ex. Microfilm 3 is jammed)
See what Bill Cronauer has done for the Albright: http://splrefdept.blogspot.com/
Let's begin creating http://www.blogger.com/

RSS

www.bloglines.com
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is fast becoming a means for keeping current. XLM programming feeds providing current news and information via the Web. Watch for that orange XML button
indicating RSS feeds.
Borrowing some links from Steven Cohen's presentation at the NPLN/NEPaLA Spring Workshop for show and tell:
Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/help/rss.htm
Reuters http://www.reuters.com/newsrss.jhtml
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/services/XML/rss/index.html
American Libraries Online http://tinyurl.com/7spjl
U.S. Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov/help/rss.html

Amazon http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/AmazonRSS.asp
Amazon Wishlists http://www.edazzle.net/amazon/
Feedster http://www.feedster.com

News Aggreators for RSS
Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com
Net News Wire (Mac users) http://www.netnewswire.com
Newsgator (Outlook) http://www.newsgator.com

RSS @ the library
New Books http://apu.kenton.lib.ky.us/newbooks/newadult.php
Library Elf http://www.libraryelf.com/
Hennepin County Public Library http://www.hclib.org/
Oklahoma University Library http://libraries.ou.edu/
RIT Libraries http://wally.rit.edu/
Kelvin Smith Library http://library.case.edu/ksl/rss/

Hey, what's with this Blog thing? 

E-Mail is Dead

E-Mail is Dead?? News to me. Libraries and library professionals are using instant messaging (IM) as a reference tool, for in-house communication, and professional networking and contacts.
It is a point of service tool that is being used by our users. Aaron Schmidt and Michael Stevens, presenters at Computers in Libraries 2005, provided stats such as; 20% of Americans use IM, that is 80,000,000 connected. There are on average 7 BILLION messages sent every day.
Count the IM windows the average student has open over a search screen and MS Word. On average I would venture a guess of 2-4. IM may become a favored point of service tool for communication and reference service. I don't think it can or should replace our cobrowse VR interface or sharing/teaching tools like BlackBoard, but it is something to consider. It is what the students use!

CIL 2005 Presentation Links

http://www.infotoday.com/cil2005/Presentations/
PowerPoint, Web links, PDF, HTML formats for continued access to conference content.
Blogging was constant, continuous and fun.