After much nagging to start a blog I finally thought up my own motivation. I have been thinking up possible Web 2.0 solutions to some of the issues with MPOW lately and I need a place to document the processes.
So this isn’t a place necessarily for others but for myself – so I can list the projects, play, brainstorm and look back on progress (hopefully).
I am not going to make any promises to be active here or to post regularly or to write beautiful prose.
And yes Kathryn I am now regretting not doing it earlier. I have been actively experimenting with online social networking sites for just over a year and I wish now that I had documented the process. It would now help me lead others down the same pathways. However, somehow, blogging to me was a much more personal and exposing activity and it has taken me a while to be comfortable with being online.
Because this space is part of the experiment it will change often. I will be trying out themes, widgets, changing things around and playing without notice.
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June 11, 2008 at 3:57 am
Congrats Sue and welcome to the world of blogging.
Great to see you here and thanks for the link from Twitter.
I’m getting your feed, so I look forward to your contributions to the wider library blog conversations.
Michelle
June 11, 2008 at 4:56 am
Hi Sue- and my congrats to you too!
I have started and stopped a couple of blogs- a couple of years ago, but I’m about to start a blog too!
My problem seems to be that I don’t want to blog just about library things, there’s a whole bunch of other things important to me too, but I’ve decided that it will be a “sum of parts” blog.
Will let you know when it all happens too, but in the meantime you’re in my netvibes!!
Kate
June 11, 2008 at 4:58 am
Hi Sue,
Congratulations too.
You’re in my netvibes.
Kate
June 11, 2008 at 5:37 am
Hi Sue. ’bout time
Seriously though, often you will push out things on twitter that I wish you had fleshed out in a blog post. Like – tips on running a corporate blog, getting buy-in from staff and clients, fiddling with syncing calendars, ping.fm.
Glad to see you are here. I find that often when I’m asked about something at work, if I have blogged about it not only do I actually know what I think (!), but also how to say it and a couple of references to back me up. No, I don’t point people to the blog post – I try not to mention my blog too much at work at all – but I do find I have a good idea of what to say as a result of having blogged it.
June 11, 2008 at 7:25 am
Hi Michelle, Katie, Kathyrn,
Thanks for the good wishes.
Katie- I’m looking forward to your blog. I have been curious about your house experiences. I have been trying to slowly retrofit mine.
Kathryn- I think that its a matter of confidence. Most of the things that you mention are still very much works in progress and what I was posing on Twitter were mainly questions. But you are right and the questions deserve bigger posts if only to help me ask them properly at work.