Category Archives: Blogging

Blogs in Plain English Comments

The people over at the CommonCraft Show are seriously making my job a lot easier! They have a new video out explaining what the big deal is about blogs. How convenient because I’m just starting to teach blog-related classes at my library!
Check it out…

Blogs: The Basics & Beyond Comments

Here are the slides from my recent class on blogs and rss feeds. I ended up just adapting the presentation from the Blogs and Blogging class I taught at my old library (thanks to my former colleague, Margaret). I think there were 11 people who attended the class and each person left with at least [...]

Thing 1: Blogs Comments

So, as part of the 10 Things @ SPL, the staff at mpow is being asked to take a look at blogs. My introduction to the world of blogs came in 2002 when a friend of mine told me that he had a blog both on livejournal and Xanga. At the time, I had [...]

Sharing via Google Reader Comments

When I first started utilizing RSS feeds, I primarily used NetNewsWire for Mac. Then, I gave Safari’s built in aggregator a shot and used that for awhile. I eventually decided that accessing my feeds from anywhere with Internet access was important to me, so I switched over to Bloglines. That worked out [...]

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Comments

I’ll be making some changes to this site during the next few days, so it might look a bit off. Right now this is a free blog on wordpress.com, but I’m going to move it over to my remote server and install wordpress.org software. I’ve done this once before and it took me [...]