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Rethinking Your Library Blog

In today's digital landscape, a library blog is a vital tool for communication and engagement. This guide, inspired by insights from blogging experts, emphasizes the importance of frequency, brevity, and personality. Utilize images effectively, improve content delivery, and seek inspiration from various sources. Explore tools for getting images, understand what defines blog success, and enhance visibility and interactivity through platforms like Facebook. Discover creative approaches to content planning, including guest posts and multimedia, to invigorate your library's online presence.

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Rethinking Your Library Blog

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  1. Rethinking Your Library Blog Amy Burger

  2. Question time!

  3. Blog?

  4. A blog is a plant

  5. frequency brevity personality • Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger

  6. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  7. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  8. Getting Images • Take your own • Microsoft Clip Art • Flickr Creative Commons • Wikimedia Commons • Screenshots

  9. Blog Success • Definition of success? • Library blogs~newsletters • Challenge: readers must come to blog

  10. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  11. Deliver your content • Visibility: RSS • Interactivity: bring posts to Facebook

  12. http://homer.gsu.edu/blogs/library/

  13. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  14. Blogging Resources • ProBlogger.net • Mashable.com • Effective Blogging for Libraries, Crosby • Library Blogging, Coombs & Griffey

  15. Tips • Always use an image • Deliver your content • Strive to improve • Seek inspiration

  16. Writers’ Block 

  17. Planning Content Your library Online Inspiration LIS News.org Omnivoracious.com Libraryland.tumblr.com Librarianista.tumblr.com Google News “library” Neatorama Mental Floss • Events • Services • Resources • Hours • Maintenance • Features • Changes • Collections

  18. Lost your muse?

  19. Fresh Ideas • Guest posts • Embed video • Roundup • Readers ♥ lists • Reviews • Format

  20. Questions? Thank you! Amy Burger abburger@northgeorgia.edu ngcsulibrary.edublogs.org

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