In previous entries, I've put in a plug or two for administrator blogs. I especially concentrated on this idea in my posting last fall about this topic. I've been thinking more about this matter since then. I've come to the...
If you want to keep up with the latest 2.0 news, look outside the library world. Libraries can't tell us much. We've barely put our toes in the water. Besides, whatever 2.0 initiatives we're working on have been inspired by...
Here's some great news that caught me by surprise. The innovative folks at The Institute for the Future of the Book have pledged to release their paragraph-level commenting system as a WordPress plugin next month. And here I'd been thinking...
The Institute for the Future of the Book has done it again. Last month, this group published a blog edition of The Iraq Study Group Report based on a customization of the WordPress blogging software. It was done in collaboration...
Wikis are admirable tools for the collaborative editing of documents. But many of them lack features that make blogs such a participatory success. Participation on wikis focuses on document editing. But what about other types of participation? This is where...
Tomorrow is Election Day. I've been considering how an academic library might recognize the day with a Library 2.0 approach. The library is the intellectual center on campus. We can make it relevant to our constituencies in a way that...
Despite the popularity of blogs, they are still an underutilized tool in academic libraries. From what I can tell, blogs are most commonly used for posting news and events. This is evident from personal observation, and is also represented on...
I love UThink: Blogs at the University Libraries at the University of Minnesota. This project has been around since fall of 2003 and offers anyone affiliated with that institution the ability to create a blog hosted by the Libraries. UThink...