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Blogger WannaBs?
10:30 PM EDT 4/14/05
BTW: I stole the idea of a blogger wannaB from a colleague. You know who you are! emoticon

I'm curious to know if anyone here has started a blog, or wanted to start a blog - especially one for their library or organization (not a personal blog) and just couldn't get it off the ground.

If you had that experience in your library, what were the obstacles?
Re: Blogger WannaBs?
10:02 AM EDT 5/4/05 as a reply to Chrystie Hill.
I think the biggest obstacle is time, with the close second being inclination. Finding the time to write is always a problem, but then finding the inclination isn't easy either.
Re: Blogger WannaBs?
3:03 PM EDT 5/30/09 as a reply to Chrystie Hill.
I don't have a blog. I occasionally visit librarian's blogs. Here's a link:

http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Weblogs/
Re: Blogger WannaBs?
3:04 PM EDT 5/30/09 as a reply to Tom Taylor.
Thanks for this link! There are more exhaustive lists of library blogs, but I like that this is so concise. I found two blogs here that I had overlooked on bigger lists -- the hip librarian's book blog and The Handheld Librarian. Cool!
Re: Blogger WannaBs?
1:26 PM EDT 8/23/05 as a reply to Chrystie Hill.
YES! I've started a couple of blogs for the library but I don't have a clue how to do what I want: I want to put the newest table of contents for the paper copies of professional journals we receive on the blog. The purpose being to avoid circulating the journals to everyone on our sign up list. Often, teachers don't have the time to look thru all the titles sent. Then the journals moulder on their desks, buried under mounds of papers and half eaten lunches....we get them back 10 months after circulating them (when we're lucky)

Does anyone know how to post tables of contents for new professional journals? We do NOT have electronic subscriptions.

Thanks for your help
Re: Blogger WannaBs?
1:20 PM EDT 8/24/05 as a reply to Chrystie Hill.
Well I've gotten as far as getting an account on blogger.com and touring around the tools to see what I might do. I am figuring this will be a semi-personal blog that I can use to figure out what I can/can't/want/don't want to do with a blog. I did a certain amount of shopping before I picked blogger.com and figured it was what I could handle in terms of ease of use and it is free. However, I tihnk I would feel more "at home" among fellow librarians if I could have figured out how much I do or do not need to know to set up a blog that is hosted by someone like LIShost.com -- that would certainly be high on my list of options if my little experimental blog on blogger.com works out and I wnat to bring blogging into my professional life.

Any chance that the Webjunction bloggers would want to share a step-by-step, "How we set up our blog on LISHost"? I mean something along the lines of my favorite WJ content "X Steps to...."
Re: Blogger WannaBs?
1:20 PM EDT 8/25/05 as a reply to Sheila Kearns.
Here is a first draft of "WebJunction's X Steps to Launching a Blog on LIShost.org." In this case "X" = 2, at least where "y" = Blake Carver.

1. Go to http://lishost.org/order.php and follow the instructions.
2. Enjoy the fabulous personalized support and assistance provided by Blake.

Blake advised us to use WordPress as our blog environment, which has worked out well for us. He really is the best person to provide technical assistance, but I'd be happy to offer you my advice (based on extremely limited experience) about how to set up a WordPress template, which is the trickiest part.

I will say though--and I don't know how important this is to you--that since WordPress is an open source environment tweaking the look and feel of your blog interface does take a bit of willingness to poke around in php and html code. Apart from that it's a perfectly friendly and usable environment. For template setup I think ASP providers like blogger.com or blogspot are more toward the user-friendly end of the spectrum.

We went with WordPress because we wanted to have multiple posters and be able to post in categories. In retrospect I'm not sure how important the categories have turned out to be for us. But I cannot recommend Blake highly enough for his attentiveness and responsiveness. And yes, it is very nice to share server space with library folk.