After blog talk

Thank you for listening, we survived the blog talk. 

And thank you for the tea break.

Now, your excuses may be the lack of time, technical support, council approval, misuse, can’t switch on the PC or daylight saving, but just ask yourself:

• is it your number 1 dream to be a matchmaker between the information and your client?
• wanted to promote your library with minimum resources but have maximum impact?
• passionate about reaching out to the non-users, or more users?
• interested in building a REAL community with interactions and conversations?
• game enough to put a personal voice to your library?
• sick and tired of listening to one blog talk after another AND not doing anything?

Social software like blog, flickr, youtube may be the answer, of course, maybe not.

It’s 1910, I should really be drinking beer and fishing at Woodman point.

First comment!!

Just as I was wondering about having no comment and guess what, we got our FIRST comment from the East! Thanks webgurl, blog on!

For the rest of us in the west, leave a comment (now), tell us what you like to see, tell me what you don’t or just say hi and don’t be shy! Remember the big Cs for blogging – Communication, community and conversations.

The Perfect Library Blog Example by Shifted Librarian

“The AADL blogs do it all right. The posts are written in the first person and in a conversational tone, with the author’s first name to help stress the people in the library… They respond to every comment… whether it’s a criticism, question, or suggestion.”

And the rest at The Shifted Librarian

LibrariesInteract.info

More library blog by Australian librarian bloggers for Australian libraries.

http://librariesinteract.info/

Google Book Search?

“Google’s project to digitize the world’s books. Search on snippets of text, find out which library has a book, or promote your own book…” Will you or will you not put the link of Google Book Search at your library webpage?

Offical Google Book Search Blog

More reading on blogging

“…blogs are a key way for libraries to engage their users, to reach out to their patrons via a back-and-forth communication model online…” from AlA TechSource

More blog toy

I heart the old school catalog card!

Make yours at Catalog Card Generator

Lemony Snicket Party

and m-a-n-y other YA related activities at Lansing Library’s flickr site  

Teens trading cards

More example on ((Public library + Flickr + Teens)=100 x fun)

Hennepin County Library

Social Bookmarking – Del.icio.us

Have you ever?

  – Lost all your favourites/bookmarks when the PC is down?
  - Wanted to access/edit your own favourites/bookmarks at a different PC?
  - Interested to find out who has the same favourites/bookmarks and what else do they have?

Try del.icio.us