Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide - Softcover

Michael P. Sauers

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9781573872683: Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573872687 ISBN 13: 9781573872683

Publisher: Information Today Inc, 2006

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Libraries increasingly use blogs and RSS feeds to reach out to users, while librarians blog daily on a range of personal and professional topics. The way has been paved by the tech-savvy and resource-rich, but any library or librarian can successfully create and syndicate a blog today. In this readable book, author, Internet trainer, and blogger Michael P. Sauers, M.L.S., shows how blogging and RSS technology can be easily and effectively used in the context of a library community. Sauers showcases interesting and useful blogs, shares insights from librarian bloggers, and offers step-by-step instructions for creating, publishing, and syndicating a blog using free Web-based services, software, RSS feeds, and aggregators.

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About the Author:

Michael P. Sauers is the Internet trainer for BCR's Member Services Division, and a part time reference librarian for the Arapahoe County Library District. He is currently on the Board of Trustees for the Aurora Public Library and the board of the Friends of the Aurora Public Library. He is the author of seven books on technology for librarians and has written dozens of articles for library industry journals.

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Sauers has been blogging since 1999. His blog, travelinlibrarian.info, is a frequently visited one, and it exemplifies what he promotes in this how-to guide, an update to a book published in 2006. Are you a beginner and need an introduction to blogs? See chapter 1. Need just a short course on how to create a blog? See chapter 4, Creating a Blog. Need information on RSS feeds? See chapter 5, An Introduction to RSS, and chapter 6, Using an Aggregator. New to this edition is Microblogging with Twitter. Sauers tweets, too, with more than 1,600 followers, but even more impressive are his 14,000 tweets! There are now a number of choices in the professional literature for educating oneself about blogging, but Sauers has the deep experience to keep readers coming back. Recommended. --Jerry Carbone

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