course update

As a follow-up to the intro to blogs/RSS course I taught last Fall through the Education Institute, I’m teaching another 6-weeker this Spring called Getting the Most Out of Blogs, RSS and Other Web 2.0 Technologies. This time, I’m focusing on:

• blog design, usability, content
• creating content and style guidelines for library blogs (especially multi-author blogs)
• marketing your library blog/RSS feeds
• wikis
• other social software tools: del.icio.us, Flickr, podcasting

This isn’t an intro course, so participants should have some understanding of what blogs are all about (at minimum), upon which I hope to build and fill in the rest of the social software “picture”. Blogging around here will either (a) remain as quiet as it has been this month, or (b) ramp up feverishly as I develop the course. I’m hoping and aiming for (b), but not making any promises!