librarian.net : Capturing Collaborative Information : SAA, 05aug06

What we talk about when we talk about blogs.

I have five slides that communicate three ideas. 1. people working together online create information and knowledge that is available nowhere else and defies traditional or linear archiving. 2. libraries' and librarians' use of blogs is a good step towards understanding these new systems with an eye to being able to effectively use, track and maintain access to them in the future. 3. the discussion about how to save these intractions isn't about how to archive writing it's about how to archive SHARING When you read a blog what do you read? what's on the main page? what's in a content area you are interested in? what linked to you? what's in bloglines? you see a narrative, but you're really viewing a database.

[thanks to Jacob for the image]
[1 of 5 | collaborating]

There are many ways to share and work together.

there are many ways to collaborate: several authors, authors + comments, group blogs, community blogs, portal sites -- each make the "tendrils" of the content appear different

[thanks to de.ef.ha for the photo]
[2 of 5 | blog impact]

The web isn't like anything else.

There is historical importance to a site that may, most of the time, be about neat/fun stuff on the web.

[metafilter link]
[3 of 5 | libraries & blogs]

When libraries and library oriented institutions use them

informal communication, increased transparency
as a tool to deliver content in an automated fashion
as a way to increase community and the round-the-clock availability of the library
downsides: when not done well, sometimes worse than doing nothing; fear factor

[4 of 5 | librarian bloggers]

the original social network
hash out big ideas before fixing them in print publication
debate policy matters to come up with approaches and tactics
downsides: pseudoinclusive; many broadcasters, fewer collaborators

[5 of 5 | resources]

Libraries doing good things with blogs [wiki]
InfoToday: Using blogs to promote the library
Libraries in Social Networking Software
Links galore at Blogs & Blog Use in Libraries
Hubs for librarian blogger activity: LISNews, Flickr librarian groups, carnival of the infosciences, in the comments....
Librarian.net: Library Corps, JoAnn Pinder fired, breaking up in the age of social software
Metafilter: 9/11 thread, Seattle Earthquake, live local coverage of Hurricane Katrina

[credits]

Jessamyn West is the editor of the weblog librarian.net and the co-editor of Revolting Librarians Redux. She moderates the popular community weblog MetaFilter.com She works as a community technology mentor with people and libraries in Central Vermont.
IM her at iamthebestartist.

This presentation was created in HTML using CSS. There was no PowerPoint involved in this presentation except as a nagging bad example. The layout and stylesheet are available to borrow via a share and share alike creative commons license. See source code for details. Thanks to Mom for the background image.

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Capturing Collaborative Information

News, Blogs, Librarians, and You

User View of Blogs vs. "Content" of Blogs

Collaborative Blogs?

What We Learn. Why It Matters.

Libraries and Blogs

Librarian Bloggers

Resources

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