Hello library land!
Firstly thanks to Hampshirelibrarian for letting me join the libraryland team! I've been blogging for a little while, trying to come to grips with all this strange new "2.0" technology like RSS and wikis. For anyone starting out down the same road I can recommend the following three sites:
Phil Bradley's I want to site is a great starting place and his 3 blogs, Phil Bradley's Weblog, I want to and Frivolityare all worth putting in that RSS aggregator that you will soon be so addicted to. Phil writes the Internet Q&A column in Update every month. (Warning, Frivolity can be seriously funny and may not be suitable for reading in quiet areas where snorting with laughter is frowned upon!)
For those who missed Karen Blakeman's talk at Basingstoke Library she has posted the handouts on her Presentations page. Have a look at References and Further Resources for links to some really useful explanations and articles as well as recommendations for sites to get you started. Karen's blog is also one to add to that RSS list especially if you're interested in search engines and business information.
Finally Brian Kelly's UK Web Focus blog and his Blog Experiments page chart his discoveries and experiments on the web. Thanks to Brian I've discovered Meebo Me boxes and Sitemeter counters and been inspired by his posts on those hard to find UK Blogging Librarians.
Hope this post fits in with the idea of library land! See you again soon...
1 comment:
Thank you Sarah for posting such useful information; this is indeed the type of material we want library land to host so that we can share knowledge within the region and beyond. Library land was also created as a training source for people new to blog and I know from experience that if there is no follow up to an event such as Karen's RSS presentation, information leaks away without practice.
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