More on Blogging

Work has been CRAZY! But I'm loving it. Lots of instruction sessions! You'd think I could actually post this stuff since I already had it typed up, but no. I'm way behind.

Blogging Goes to College: Part 5

How to encourage blog use among faculty/staff:

• All librarians create a blog to understand better how to use a blog (negative: creates useless blogs/noise)
• Say: this is how we are going to provide this essential service – to get it, you’re going to have to subscribe.
• Provide a service not available anywhere else
• Recognize that not everyone will use it
• Make it relevant and useful – so they’ll want to use it
• Incentive/reward system
• Rewards example – current awareness (RSS feeds for journal tables of contents)

How to encourage blog use among administration:

• Saves money
• Brings in money
• Community relations – internal and external
• Helps retain students, faculty, staff
• People will be more likely to subscribe to your views if they have a say (via comments)
• Create a feeling of community
• Speed and accuracy of information