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June 15, 2007
Blog/Rss Workshop from MLibrary 2.0
Thursday, June 14 was the first workshop presented by MLibrary 2.0, Blogs & RSS. We talked about the definition of a blog, how you can subscribe to a blog, viewing blogs using Google Reader and created our own blogs (well, it was an experiment!).
Since I had already created or posted to a couple of Mblog blogs last year I knew how to create a blog. The tough part is not creating a blog, it's keeping the postings current and actually having something interesting to say so that people will listen to you. Unfortunately, the two that I had been working on last year sort of faded out. I still would like to create a diversity committee blog or a blog on topics related to academic diversity but haven't created it yet. Maybe I'll try to use Wordpress or Blogger instead of Mblog. I'm sick of the generic light blue/gray Mblog template and it's not very easy to change as far as I can tell.
The most helpful thing for me in the Blog/RSS workshop yesterday was getting more familiar with Google Reader. I have tried Bloglines but I filled it with too many feeds in my excitement and can't possibly read them all. I went to a Sage extension in Firefox which is very cool but is machine specific. Now I'm on to Google Reader and,so far so good.
I liked being able to slap up a quick page from Google Reader of feeds you started or shared but now I'm working on figuring out how to do it. I can't remember and it's not on the resources page. Could this be added to the resources for the Blogs session?
Posted by swortman at June 15, 2007 10:09 AM