Effective Blogging for Libraries (The Tech Set)

by Connie Crosby

Effective Blogging for Libraries is part of THE TECH SET, a series of ten practical, concise guides to implementing today's best technologies in your library to enhance the library-user connection.

Each of the ten titles incorporates a clear 5-step approach to make learning and implementing these concepts easy:

Integrate Social Networking Technologies with Library Services

Plan for and Implement a New Web 2.0 Technology Today

Apply the Social Marketing Techniques Used by the Pros

Follow Best Practices Established by Library Innovators

Measure Your Success

Genres: Nonfiction

139 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2010

Reviews

[Emilyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

My library has a book review blog in which I participate. No plans to start up any other sort of blog, but I was interested in what best practices might be. This short guide covered some very useful topics (accessibility, usability, marketing, SEO, etc.). It also covered topics such as gathering statistics about your blog (so useful in these days of quantitative data as king). I'd heard or read about all the topics covered in this book, but having it all in one place when a library is considering starting up the time-suck that is a successful blog would be very useful.

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's an okay basic book, with a lot of good tips. Sadly, the edition I read was outdated, and a lot of the services mentioned in the book don't exist anymore.