Well, it is a bit sad doing my homework on a Bank holiday, but here are my thoughts on blogs.
In order to generate discussion, they need to have stimulating content and it's important to keep the purpose of the blog in mind - headlines need to be relevant and meaningful. Regular posting keeps readers interested, but it seems that long posts, as long as they are well written, get more comment and links.
For use in a library context, I like the interactivity aspect of having a blog and being able to get immediate user feedback. One could be used for current awareness services. However, a lot of promotion would need to be done in order to make users aware of it. We are already aware that large numbers of our users don't even know of the existence of our website and online library catalogue which have been around for years!
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There seems to be a popular theme going around this course that even if we get to grips with blogging we have some work to do educating our users - never say die though - we've moved away from the image of the twin set and pearls era so our users might just surprise us yet
I agree that sometimes it feels that although we get excellent feedback from our regular users there are still a lot of other prospective users that don't even know we exist. Whilst I don't think that a blog is going to be a magic cure to right this, it's got to be worth a try even if it only brings on board a few extra users in the begining.
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