I'm interested in other people's blogs: How do I get information and messages onto the top blogs in various categories? So I need to learn blogging in order to better access BoingBoing, Method, Paleo-future etc. etc. with information -- without getting squirted out of the blogosphere like a watermelon seed for being a melvin.
1. Keep my employers appraised of my work schedule/priorities.
2. All at UCSD who need or use my services.
3. Viewed and commented on by Hydraulics Lab personnel.
4. Two way communication.
I want my blog to simply be my running weekly diary about my Self Expression and Leadership Class at Landmark Education in San Diego.
My intended audience is the other (approx.) 50 members of the class.
Author: me
Should be two-way, if that means readers can send comments.
Purpose: To share stories about my life in San Diego, with the focus being on my toddler son.
Intended Audience: Interested family and friends
Author: Self
Communication: Two-way
Purpose: Research and discuss topics relating to my work. Post inquires relating to new vendors, current developments in architecture and "green" building.
Audience: Office staff members and self. General public.
Author(s): Office staff members and self (?)
Communication: Two-way
...honestly, I just want to find a better way to utilize existing blogs for research purposes. I dont need to start my own.
A blogging policy can clarify:
Why you are blogging (purpose)
Who will be blogging
The roles of the blog administrator, blog posters, and anyone else involved on the IT side
Who is the intended audience
"Best practices" of blogging, both content and style
Policies may need revisiting Spring 2007, when/if library blogs move from Movable Type to campus WordPress software
Purpose and General Description
The S&E blog is a vehicle for timely news and information of interest to users of the S&E website.
The 3 most recent posts will be pushed out to the S&E homepage using feed-to-javascript conversion. There’s also a link to the complete blog as well as an RSS feed if users want to add the feed to their RSS reader.
The S&E reference providers are expected to provide the blog content. SuHui is the blog administrator, responsible for accounts, configuration and creating new categories (which can be proposed in our web meetings). Teri can assist users with training, best practices and suggestions for content.
The comments feature has been disabled.
Subject Categories (entries may fit in multiple categories)
Categories will be listed after each entry and accessible through the MT archive
Classes and User Guides – our classes and new web guides
Exhibits - ours and exhibits on campus
News & Events – our news and events and UCSD events of interest
Books & Encyclopedias – emphasis on online, but can be used to promote print
Journals– emphasis on online, but can be used to promote print
Database News – trials, new databases, updates
Known Problems and Down Time - database, ejournal, and other system down time
Science News & Hot Topics
Faculty News – faculty publications and honors
Tech Tools – tips and gadgets
Good Web Sites – things that we’re adding to Sage that we’d like to mention again, for example.
Best Practices – Content
Do not copy entire postings from other sources
If you are directly quoting, identify it as such using italics and quotation marks
Please give credit to other sources. If you’re posting about something you found on another blog, you can give them a simple hat-tip at the end of the entry (h/t: Site and URL).
If possible, try to trace links back to the original source, as opposed to repeating what someone else is blogging.
If you need to update an entry, that’s fine. All of us should have rights to update any entry.
If you’re not ready for an entry go live, you can leave it in draft mode. You can also take a live entry and put it back in draft, then rebuild the site to make it disappear.
To update an entry and reset it so it appears at the top, change the date of the entry to today. You cannot push a live entry out on a future date by postdating it.
Best Practices – Style
Titles should be brief: 6 words or less
Writing style should generally be brief, informal, conversational. Contractions and bulleted lists are fine. Correct spelling and basic grammar are also important.
If the entry is going to be rather long, enter the beginning in the main entry box, and use the “full entry” box for the rest. Users will see a link to read the rest of the entry.
Using a more personal tone should be done with care and discretion. Commentary on how one can use a resource is one thing, but avoid personal opinions.
Hyperlinks can be inline (and should be inline if they’re long): i.e an article in this week’s Science or written out: i.e. go to Roger – http://roger.ucsd.edu
Avoid statements like “click here.”
Our version of MT almost no WYSIWYG editor, so anything beyond bold/italics/underlining, uploading images and embedding hyperlinks will need to be handcoded in HTML. This includes lists, tables and alignments.
I've been playing around with Google Calendar:
A blogging policy can clarify:
Policies may need revisiting Spring 2007, when/if library blogs move from Movable Type to campus WordPress software
Purpose and General Description
Subject Categories (entries may fit in multiple categories)
Categories will be listed after each entry and accessible through the MT archive
