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Personal Blogging Kevin Smith - the Fiddling Librarian Assistant Director, Cass District Library Violist, Prometheus String Quartet Husband and father of two
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Personal Blogging Kevin Smith - the Fiddling Librarian Assistant Director, Cass District Library Violist, Prometheus String Quartet Husband and father.

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Page 1: Personal Blogging Kevin Smith - the Fiddling Librarian Assistant Director, Cass District Library Violist, Prometheus String Quartet Husband and father.

Personal BloggingKevin Smith - the Fiddling Librarian

Assistant Director, Cass District Library

Violist, Prometheus String Quartet

Husband and father of two

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Who Blogs? Librarians Teenagers Journalists Parents College Students Everyone

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Why do I blog? Stay in touch with friends and family Keep me up to date Organize my thoughts Practice Web skills Cheaper than therapy

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History of the Fiddling Librarian Started on Blogger.com in 2003 Moved to Weblogs.us in March 2004 March 2005 moved to WordPress

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What are some features of blogs? Title and statement of purpose Time and date stamp Comments RSS feed

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RSS Aggregators Bloglines - web-based, free Windows based

http://www.sharpreader.net/ http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/

Mac OS Xhttp://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

Linuxhttp://www.nongnu.org/straw/

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Where can I go to blog? Blogger

Good for beginners Easy to use Free hosting

Movable Type More feature rich Not free Requires PHP and

MYSQL

TypePad Easier to use version of

Movable Type Requires a subscription

WordPress Similar to Movable

Type Free software Requires PHP and

MYSQL

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What should I blog? What interests you What might be interesting to your audience

Things of professional interest Politics and current events Hobbies & lifestyle Family

Photos

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Photo Blogs Flickr

20 MB monthly upload limit 3 photosets Photostream views limited to the 200 most

recent images Storage of smaller (resized) images Friends and family can leave comments Photo posts can be “blogged” to other blogs

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When should I blog? People who blog often are read more

frequently and People who write interesting blogs are also

read frequently Maintaining a balance between these two

elements is challenging

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Blogging Etiquette Be careful Don't write anything that you don't want read

by everyone Don't get Dooced!

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Finding Blogs http://technorati.com/ http://blogsearch.google.com/ http://www.feedster.com/ Blogrools

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Questions?