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Five Weeks to YOUR Social Library
Last week was Week 1 of Five Weeks to a Social Library, “the first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries”.
If you weren’t lucky enough to be one of the 40 participants chosen to take the course, the course content is being made freely viewable for interested parties and all the live Webcasts are being archived for later viewing. The archived Webcast for Week 1 is online now.
The course will cover the following topics:
* Blogs
* RSS
* Wikis
* Social Networking Software and SecondLife
* Flickr
* Social Bookmarking Software
* Selling Social Software @ Your Library
If you are thinking of implementing any of these services in your library, you can’t beat a load of free training to help get you started!
And after you’ve been through some of the course work, come back here and share what you’ve learned!
I just watched Nanette Donohue’s presentation on blogging and found it quite interesting. She addressed lots of topics, including personnel issues related to having a library blog, dealing with comments, and tracking your blog’s impact.
For instance, if you are going to blog about a book in your collection (i.e. a reader’s advisory type of post) she suggests you plan ahead, look at circulation statistics for the book before you blog about it (is it currently checked out, are there holds, how many times has it circulated), then several weeks after the post check those same statistics to see if there has been increased usage.
This would definitely be worth a viewing if you are thinking about starting a library blog!