Thanks!!!

Just wanted to thank everyone again for attending and contributing to the workshop. Please go back to the workshop link at Enrollment Central and complete the evaluation. This workshop, like Web 2.0 tools in general, is in perpetual beta; any suggestions for improvement are greatly appreciated.

Please contact me if you have additional questions, need passwords to get back into the workshop blog, wiki or RSS reader, or just want to share how you're integrating these applications into your work.

Blogging Policies

S&E Library's Blogging Policies, with some general information added.
On our reference wiki, which I've set up for public viewing temporarily until I place a copy on SD Librarian

And an early "best practices" document I put together when we were setting up blogs at Georgia State.

Blog policy example

Hi Teri,

You mentioned in class last week that you might be able to post a couple examples of Blog policy. I would love to have an electronic version that I can use as a base template for creating one of my own.

Thanks!

Tim

Exercise 1: Online Clinical Library

Purpose: Users of the Online Clinical Library will have a place to post comments about a particular resource.

Audience: Medical students and researchers.

Author: I'm the initial author.

Comm.: two-way

Thanks Everyone!!! (and assignment)

Thanks again for attending the workshop! I overscheduled a bit, and I'll keep that in mind when fine-tuning next week's workshop. Let me know if you have any questions, by email or IM (AOL/Yahoo - tmvogel2).

During the week:

• Continue posting and commenting on the blog. If you want to continue the in-class assignment of identifying the blog you want to create and the technical assets and challenges, go ahead. At least a few of you were already striking out and creating new blogs of your own. Those will appear only on your Blogger dashboard unless you invite others to contribute.
• Add a few more RSS feeds to the Bloglines account. There are dozens of RSS readers available, and what you end up using will be based on your preferences. Though not perfect, I prefer the web-based Bloglines and Google Reader because I'm not tied to a single computer. If you really stick to one computer, then a desktop reader or using your browser to capture and read the feeds may be better alternatives. Just start small to avoid information overload.

• And if you're feeling daring, try out one of the Google products and let everyone know what you think. Docs and Spreadsheets is the closest match to what we'll be talking about next week.
  

About the Page Elements

Workshop Links is a standard Link List (which can select more than once to create more than one list of links

iPhone - Google News RSS Feed uses the Feed option. I ran the search in Google News and pasted the URL into the Feed form. Once the feed was validated, I selected the option to display 3 headlines. I could've also used Feed2JS and copied the resulting script into an HTML/Javascript page element.

Tags (originally called Labels) and Blog Archive are page element options that you only select once. You can arrange the tags alphabetically or in order of use, and you have several display options for the archive.

Feeds is another Link List.

Recent comments acutally used a third-party widget from Hackosphere and Beautiful Beta. It's a chunk of script that uses the HTML/Javascript page element, but I could've also used the Feed option since the comments have a separate RSS feed.

exercise 2

there is an office server
i will be the blog administrator
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question 1

use is to keep unit colleagues updated on contract interpreation
intended audience is unit colleagues
authors will be colleagues
multi communication

Student Worker

This blog is for student workers at SSH library to check for announcements and to seek a replacement when s/he cannot work.
Authors will be SSH Library staff and students.
Communication will be two-way.

Idea for exercise 1

Purpose: to facilitate communicate and exchange of information
Intended audience: colleagues in Central Budget Offices across UC system
Authors: all members of the intended audience
Communication: 2-way