Week 2 Blogging

I have read week 2 writeup and have reviewed two blogging tools also. I have still start a blog. It is not clear to me how can my progress of 23 things will be monitored. Can anyone help me understanding the issue.

If you create a blog and record your progress there -- you will have a record that we can see as well.  Best, Susan

Hello, Sushma.
Thing 1 reads:
Tag your blog on Del.icio.us. After creating an account, bookmark your blog, adding SLA23Things as a tag.

http://del.icio.us/tag/sla23things

that's how we'll track what you do. Deb

Tried to set up a blog on Bloglines. Got error msg. about tech. problems. Maybe another time.

I use Bloglines to read RSS feeds and clip items.

Hi, Barbara. I'm using Bloglines for my blog. It's not as pretty as the other ones out there (or maybe I haven't mined all the possibilities yet). Email me if you continue to have problems OR try one of the other blogs to set up yours.

It took me a while to figure out how to edit my profile, etc. because such links are not highlighted.

Deb

 Friends,

 I am trying to select a Free Blog, but at three registrations points they all request my Date of Birth DOB.

 I am getting sensitive about all this information given away, and not sure who has it. 

 Are there any Free Blogs that do NOT require revealing this fact?

 With thanks, Sherry
 

Dear all,

I just joined SLA wiki 23 things today. This year's was my first full SLA conference in Seattle. I am very impressed with new developments using Blogs, RSS feeds, Web 2.0, Facebook and Second Life.

I am taking this opportunity to share my two blogs and Podcast recently published on Elsevier's Library Connect site.

My blogs:

Engineering Resources Blog
http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/englibrary/

Engineering Library Instruction
http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/engineeringlibraryinstruction/

and Library Connect Podcast

Sorry I posted my note incomplete...

Here is the link for my Library Connect Podcasthttp://elsevier.com/wps/find/librariansinfo.librarians/libr_multimedia
 
Also linked from Library Connect News Bloghttp://libraryconnect.blogspot.com/search/label/podcast
 
Sincerely,
Jay
 

Here is the link for my Library Connect Podcast http://elsevier.com/wps/find/librariansinfo.librarians/libr_multimedia
 
Also linked from Library Connect News Blog http://libraryconnect.blogspot.com/search/label/podcast

Again my apologies for incorrect links in my post before.
Jay

Hi Jay,

I just (barely) managed to start a blog on wordpress and they needed nothing more than an email.

Here's mine:

http://ladelocho.wordpress.com

Hi Sherry,

WordPress does not ask for your DOB, and it is very simple to register. You must provide an email address, which is used to verify the account before you can start blogging. It is up to you to determine if you want to provide any additional personal information on your profile.

http://wordpress.org/

Happy Blogging!

Patsy

Thanks for posting this 23 Things project, I just heard of it from our subject librarian. I wanted to add some info on other tools that are like cousins to blogs. (If these are already listed in later posts, do forgive me!) Blogs can be a nice sounding board for people with things to say, but I've stayed clear of creating my own just for lack of my own content. Instead, I use Tumblr, which is like an online scrapbook. Users post their own stories, and you can use it to automatically collect and post your RSS feeds, Diggs, youtube videos, Twitter, and others.  It's not quite a blog, it's not just an RSS reader, it's a nice little hybrid tool. It doesn't allow you to directly feed from certain sites like Flickr, but you can get around that by adding it to an RSS reader and importing via "middleman."  It also doesn't support some standard blog functions like comments. For institutions, not having comments can be a nice feature if you just want a mini-site that posts events or other activity, or want to discourage spambots from filling your blog with garbage. (You could also easily prevent that in a regular site by adding a captcha utility.)

Similarly, Friend Feed (FF) collects your selected web updates, and posts it in your social networks. For example, say I take a photo I really love and post it on flickr. Rather than going to every social networking site I'm on, I can set FF to broadcast it across them, so I don't have to visit each one to let people know about it.  A wee time saver, so I'll have more time to... do more web-surfing!

I've had many recent discussions about people who are top-notch bloggers and those of us who are better at sites that allow us to organize -- more like a wiki. I have found, however, I do love Twitter quite a bit. Twitter is considered a micro-blog and is a place you can just post random thoughts...fits my tangential, GTD personality. So... on the blog I set up for 23 Things, I added the ability to feed my blog with my tweets -- so I can post once on Twitter but re-purpose multiple places -- like on my 23 Things blog or Facebook. Check out my blog. 

Hi all,

I just set up a blog at Blogger.com....we'll see how that goes.   Sherry - it didn't ask for DOB.  So far I'm enjoying "23 Things" & think it was wise of SLA to undertake this venture.

Hi Sherry and everyone,

Thank you so much for a wonderful discussion on blogging, RSS feeds, Web2.0. del.icio.us, etc. I am really enjoying this section on 23 things. I am curious to learn about the history of how 23 things came into existebce. Why 23?

BTW, I would like to share a link to my paper, 'Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries' below. It was presented during the 2006 Higheredblogcon Virtual conference.

http://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/using-rss-to-increase-user-awareness-of-e-resources-in-academic-libraries/

I invite everyone to become my friend on facebook at bhattjj@drexel.edu

This year's poster at SLA:

Our poster: Innovative Applications of Social Software in Reaching Out to Engineering Students
Authors: Sasha Gurke, Senior Vice-President and Co-Founder of Knovel Corporation, Email: sgurke@knovel.com
Jay Bhatt, Engineering Librarian, Drexel University, Email: bhattjj@drexel.edu
and  Josh Roberts. Access poster at:  Innovative Applications of Social Software in Reaching Out to Engineering Students

Abstract: The past few years have seen several new engineering initiatives develop at Drexel University. Some of these initiatives are in emerging fields such as Nanoscale Science and Technology, Microfluidics, and Bionanotechnology. The rapid growth in research in these and several other subject areas motivated Drexel's engineering librarians to experiment with new ways of reaching out to faculty and students. Drexel's emphasis on team based engineering design projects requires students to develop critical understanding of engineering subject areas. Developing awareness of core electronic resources such as Knovel and Engineering Village is crucial for them to use such resources efficiently. This poster outlines innovative experiments aimed at increasing information awareness using social software such as Facebook, Del.icio.us, and blogs. Having an engineering librarian's presence on Facebook is useful since many engineering students at Drexel are heavy Facebook users. Organizations such as Drexel's IEEE student chapter and ASME are on Facebook as well. Drexel Engineering Information Awareness Campaign Group is a librarian-created group aimed at increasing awareness of new and existing resources. The poster also includes an example of using Facebook's Notes application to receive automated feeds of new information resources from an engineering blog (Englibrary) and an illustration of automatically importing new engineering information related bookmarks from Del.icio.us into Facebook. Judging by the number of engineering students on the engineering librarian's Facebook, it appears that this innovative experiment is succeeding, a required first step before our users can embark on learning how to use engineering information resources more efficiently.

My del.icio.us site: http://del.icio.us/jaybhatt 
Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/jaybhatt

Regards,
Jay

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me how i register my blog with blog central? Would like to proceed to the next step.

Thanks.

George

George, Most participants are using their blogs to record ideas they've learned each week. After you have set up your blog AND a Del.icio.us account, bookmark your blog and tag with SLA23Things. If your blog is open, this will allow your blog to be "grouped" with participants' blogs who have done the same as well as appear within our RSS feed on our 23 Things home page (right sidebar). Currently there are 446 blogs bookmarked on Del.icio.us. Thank you for your questions. We hope our delay in a response did not prevent you from moving forward. Thank you for your questions. Keeping Web 2.0ing!!! Karen

I'd forgotten that I signed up with Bloglines a year or two ago, which shows how much blogging I do, but my login and password still work so I'm having another go. But aside from doing this for 23 Things I'm not sure that I have anything to say that anyone else would find of interest. I've made my blog open and tagged it with SLA23Things. I have discussed with my colleagues if we can see a need for a blog in our workplace and so far the answer is no, but we are open minded on that.

Dianna

Done!  About a year ago I set up another blog with good intentions, but then never pursued it further.  Perhaps I'm the eternal optimist, but I'm looking forward to taking a new step each week.  This will be the motivator I need for getting into blogging.

I created Mary's 23 Things Blog (http://marys23thingsblog.blogspot.com/) using Blogger.com. My first post is a welcome/introductory post and I think I would like it to always appear first or be a main page, but I haven't figured out how to make it so. I am trying to get the 23 Things done before Dec. 15th, so I'm moving on to the next module.

Mary, you can Customize your blog using Blogger's Add a Gadget which can be text, HTML, links, RSS feed, widgets, etc. So, for example, you could re-add your first post OR parts of your post as a gadget on your blog that you post on your sidebar. Once you've signed into your blog, you'll see the Customize link on the top right when viewing your blog. Karen

A post on my blog that I am posting here in hopes that someone can answer the questions!

     OK so today I found several interesting blogs through the lists mentioned in the MediaShift article AND figured out how to subscribe to them. I also figured out how to post items from other blogs here and to clip others. But I'm confused about the playlist thing and how to return to posts already viewed. There was one item I saw that I emailed to a colleague and then wanted to save it for myself. Because it was a video, I thought it might go in the "playlist" but apparently it didn't. So I backed out that function and came back to the page only to find none of the posts from that blog displayed.

Hi fellow 23ers,

I finished my blog! I already had a Google account, so after looking at Blogspot and some other software, I decided to stick with Google Blogger for the time being. I had a lot of fun figuring out the software and adding some gadgets - like blogroll, and an RSS feed.

http://okeyren.blogspot.com/.

I registered myself with SLA 23 Things months ago but did not find time to strat learning. Finally, i have managed to do so. I have created my blog i.e. http://muhammadasifmunir.blogspot.com What should i do with this blog now? Whats next? is anyone can help me? Thanks & Regards

Keep going through the weekly sessions and record your ideas & learning on your blog. Also, feel free to share ideas on the 23 Things wiki as your progress. This is a self-guided online learning experience to encourage SLA members to explore a handful of Web 2.0/social networking applications. Enjoy your journey!

Making progress with 23 Things, and having fun while I'm doing it--what a combo!  As of this morning I've completed Things 3 and 4.  You can see my blog, Information Prospector, here. Onward to tagging....