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June 17, 2009
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Anyone who’s reading this blog directly rather than in their rss reader may have noticed a new box appear on the upper right hand side – Subscribe via Email I’m happy to have finally gotten around to offer this option.  Teaching patrons and training staff has taught me that there are still a great many people who don’t use an rss reader for whatever reason.  So I thought it was time for me to get out of my bubble and provide an option for people who aren’t rss fanatic. Just enter your email address, confirm your subscription and blog posts will be delivered to your email like magic! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Using WordPress for Bibliographies or Readers Advisory Sites

September 8, 2008
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Using WordPress for Bibliographies or Readers Advisory Sites

Remember how last month I blogged about using a wiki for the library’s  Readers Advisory Site?  It looked like this.  Well we ran into some issues, the IT department was having some problems with the input form and the other Librarians didn’t like it (I’m not gonna list their complaints), so I started rethinking it.  Since I was going to be building a new one from scratch I knew I wanted patrons to be able to print out the lists as well as be able to use it to see the record in the catalog.  I also wanted something other staff were comfortable and familiar with.  I knew many of the staff set up a blog during our Library Learning 2.0 program.   I’m very familiar with blogging & WordPress, and I knew I could tweak the pages and post to make it function the way I wanted.  The library already uses WP for it’s main blog so it was a simple matter to have another blog set up.  I got to work and it worked out even better than I’d hoped!  See it here, read on for the how I made it happen. First I created 7 Pages,  including

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What’s your hook?

June 16, 2008
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What’s your hook?

One of the things about having a blog or facebook page for patrons is that you need to give them a reason to come back. What can they get there that they can’t get anywhere else? The Pirates application on Facebook hooked me with the monkey, I love monkeys! So what hook are you using to get people to read your blog?  visit your myspace page?  What hooks do you use to get people to come to 3D library events?  How can you apply those to the web? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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