I found this particular article very informative considering I am new to blogging. I am using Blogger only because this was the only blogging site I knew about from some of my friends and I started there. I was interested in finding out what else is out there, especially that now, once I have started to explore Blogger a little more, I came to the conclusion that it is a little difficult to use (having to know HTML code to change slightly a template and having a hard time linking to LibraryThing).
A number of blogging software is mentioned in this article, besides Blogger are: Typepad, Blogware, WordPress, Movable Type and Expression Engine. I noticed that many of them are actually not free. I don't know why I was always under the impression that all blogging software is free. Maybe because I would never pay to publish my own blog, however I would do that if I would be creating a blog for an organization.
This made me think that having a blog created with more advanced blogging software, that looks very professional is a way of introducing it into an organization (library) and still keeping the corporate look. I was always thinking that having a blog like mine to discuss my library's issues would be a little unprofessional and would not necessarily look like representing the organization.
In the context of libraries, I am wondering who makes the decision of which blogging software to use and who maintains it (IT/ a specific librarian or a group of librarians)? If any of you has any ideas, please share...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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Hi Simona - On your question about who makes the decision on blogging software: I think the answer really depends on the library you're at. If the library has a committee that looks after the library website, it might be that committee; if the library has an IT department, they might make those decisions; if you're in a small library with little IT support, all techology decisions, by default, might fall to the most techy person on staff!
As for the maintenance, this is something else that will be really library-specific. In my experience, a lot of libraries try to spread out the blog maintenance amongst a number of staff members (blog software affords this well) - from public service staff to IT people.
At my institution, our Web Team took the lead on establishing our blog, and maintenance is done by many staff members across the library system. Anyone who wants to contribute to the blog, can!
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