Friday, September 14, 2007
To Blog or not to blog
I am new to this blogging thingo and as yet I am not convinced it has a great deal of use except as a time waster. It is a little like the person in real life who likes the sound of his or her own voice and talks incessantly about themselves only this method reaches a larger audience. I can see the practical use for dissemination of ideas but often it appears a bit self indulgent. I'd be interested to hear of others opinions for and against.
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Welcome to the program- for me, technology just helps us to do what we must, work, live, communicate. At least with these tools, life becomes that bit easier. I couldn't live without my email but am happy not having a blog. Yet, I know some people whose blogs are their means of keeping up to date with family and friends OS...each to their own :)
Enjoy
Regards,
Leslie
Hi Rosalie,
I must disagree with you about blogs being a time waster! I use blogs to keep up to date with what is happening in library land, in news, and in books. I get many recommendations for great reads from some of the blogs that I subscribe to and to me, it is the way I like it - I get the information I want pushed out to me, rather than me having to go looking for it!
Hi Tara,I was hoping to get a response such as yours. I can certainly appreciate your use of blogs but you often have to sift through a lot of "rubbish" to find something worthwhile. I love email,facebook and flickr for the obvious reasons of keeping in contact with friends and family as well as the fun aspect but I still think as far as use in work it needs to be limited timewise and to meet some purpose
Hi Rosalie,
I do agree with you that to use these things in our work it needs to be relevant. I have used Flickr a number of times when I have been helping borrowers find pictures of things (eg. Victorian Verandahs)and I love the idea of having a flickr account for CHRLC where we can all post pictures of our branches, events etc and link to this from our website. And if can have enough staff to ocntribute I think a book blog would be a great way to get news out to customers about our new books... or maybe even a staff blog that gets information out to staff?
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