Posted on September 21, 2007 by rhondagonzales
Here’s another site that is a “blog as website”. In fact, this is a company called ContentRobot that is offering to design your blog powered website for you and their own site is, in fact, a blog. They claim to be WordPress experts.
Here’s a quote from their site about the benefits of a blog powered [...]
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Posted on June 14, 2007 by rhondagonzales
Ok, so everyone else already knows about WPopac (now called Scriblio) but me. Nevertheless, I am excited to have discovered it today. Here is what ALA Techsource says by way of explanation. Casey, you the man!
ALA TechSource | Unsucking the OPAC: One Man’s Noble Efforts
“WPOPAC doesn’t attempt to replace the integrated library system (ILS)—just complement [...]
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Posted on June 14, 2007 by rhondagonzales
I have started a de.licio.us page where I’m bookmarking more innovative library sites that are using blogs (or mashups of blogs and other software applications) as the platform for their websites. I’ll bookmark them at http://del.icio.us/RhondaGonzales/blogsaswebsites if you want to check back for more examples.
One of the most impressive is Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library. [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2007 by rhondagonzales
Here’s another example of a library that has made its blog its website. The only thing I don’t like about this site is that you really have to hunt to find the links to the card catalog. Then when you click on the link, you leave the blog. They might consider making the link to [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2007 by rhondagonzales
In the last two months I have taught two workshops on blogging for faculty. I’ve tried to make the argument that using RSS feeds and blogs to keep up with developments, news, and trends in their disciplines will save them time. I’ve been met with some skepticism but I do believe that once faculty get [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2007 by rhondagonzales
On Friday, I and our intern Karyn Lynn, will be present a workshop for faculty and staff at our institution on blogging. Below is the announcement. See you there!
Have you wondered what all the buzz is about? Why bother with blogs? Academics are turning to blogging as a time-saving method for keeping current with issues [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2007 by rhondagonzales
I read about this on Laura Cohen’s blog, Library 2.0 - An Academic’s Perspective. http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2007/01/blogs_for_current_events.html.
What a great idea!!! The Institute for the Future of the Book has created this blog version of the Iraq Study Group Report. Reviewers are contributors to the blog and can add their comments to each section of the report. [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2006 by rhondagonzales
I ran across this Web site today that is actually a blog. Do you think this would work for a college library? I think the advantages would include the dynamic nature of the site since you could easily update it. However, I don’t think it’s as intuitive for searching as a traditional Web site. [...]
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