course: blogs, rss, and other 2.0 technologies

Just barely catching my breath from CiL (quick! exhale!) and my 6-week online course through the Education Institute begins tomorrow. I usually try to have all the content done and delivered a few weeks before the start of the course, but with CiL this year, I only managed to get the first 2 weeks out before having to turn my attention to conference prep. But, instead of being stressed by the tight schedule, I’m actually luxuriating in it, because now I have a chance to work in some of the cool stuff I learned at the conferernce. Here’s what we’re covering in this course:

• The principles of blog design and usability and how to put those principles to work on your library blog.
• What makes good blog content and how to write content and style guidelines for multi-author blogs.
• Taking RSS further, including how to incorporate RSS feeds into your website and building reading lists with OPML.
• Marketing your blog and RSS feeds.
• Social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us, Furl, and Flickr and their use in libraries.
• Podcasting for content-delivery.

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And I know we’re all looking forward to learning all that new stuff!!