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upcoming presentations & courses

ae-j — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:45:17 +0000

Some looming presentations I’ll be giving and courses I’ll be teaching over the next four months. Plus, of course, Five Weeks starts in four weeks (and there’s already been a flurry of activity on the course blogs!) — can’t wait!

Health Library 2.0: Delivering Web Services with 2.0 Tools, OLA Super Conference, Toronto, February 2.
Top Tech Trends (with Michael Stephens & John Blyberg), OLITA Panel. OLA Super Conference, Toronto, February 3.
Building a Dynamic Web Presence with Web 2.0 Tools, The Education Institute, March-May, 6-week online course (begins March 19).
Simple Solutions for Dynamic Web Services Using RSS, Computers in Libraries preconference, Sunday, April 15.
Tips & Strategies for Launching an IM Reference Service, Computers in Libraries preconference, Sunday, April 15.

course: blogs, rss, and other 2.0 technologies

ae-j — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:14:29 +0000

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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feedster redux

ae-j — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:18:38 +0000

I don’t know if you’ve tried Feedster over the past couple of months but they’ve been having trouble – painfully slow searching and feeds for searches that didn’t work. It was a real shame because when it did work, it was a pretty decent tool. I had my last blogs & RSS class play with feedster for their last assignment and the spotty service caused a lot of irritation. So, I was really pleased to see that they’re back with a fresh design and feeds that seem to work as they should. Nice to have them back.

course update

ae-j — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:10:28 +0000

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!

everything to get you started on blogs & rss

ae-j — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:12:59 +0000

That intro to blogs/RSS course I said I’d be teaching? The course description is up & it’s open for registration. FYI, it starts the week of October 31st and it’s a six-week online course, and yes, you can enroll no matter where you are (although it’s a bit cheaper for members of these library associations). If you have any questions about the course content, feel free to get in touch.

Also in the Fall calendar, a veritable buffet of neat teleconferences for the tech enthusiast:

Blogger for Word

ae-j — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:40:31 +0000

You’ve probably already heard about this, so I mention it as a placeholder for myself: you can now post to your Blogger blog from Word. Must remember to bring this up during my intro to blogs course this Fall.

catching up

ae-j — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:30:12 +0000

This is just one of those fields that is changing and developing on a daily (hourly?) basis, so when you take 2 months off from reading the articles, reading the blogs-about-blogging, and ignoring RSS altogether (which we are now calling, “webfeeds” — much better), you might in fact find yourself barely able to tread water.

Welcome to my world.

I’ll be catching up over the next few days as I prepare for an online intro to blogging/rss course I’m teaching so expect a veritable buffet of links and articles. While all of them will be new to me, hopefully a few will be new to you.

courses on blogging

ae-j — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:58:17 +0000

If you or your library is looking to add a blog to your site but first need to bone up on the technology and everything it has to offer, there are a couple of upcoming online courses you should know about. Steven is facilitating one on blogs & RSS over at LearningTimes, and Megan Fox is holding one on new technologies for librarians (including PDAs, WiFi, blogs & RSS) via the continuing ed school at Simmons [via stuff]. They both sound like great courses and reading over the details for each has got me thinking about proposing something similar for the Ontario Library Association’s Education Institute.