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Thursday, 11 June 2009
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Activity 3 - a useful blog for me
This blog is all about books and portable devices: http://handheldlib.blogspot.com/
This blog is clear and easy to read, and is about a topic that I have an interest in. The only bad thing about this blog is that it only has occasional updates, but they are good updates. I'd rather have quality and useful blog posts than lots of long useless ones. This blog is supposed to have 5 contributors but it appears that only one of them has updated the posts in the last 2 years. This blog could potentially benefit from the others contributing on a regular basis. So a key point with blogs is how to you motivate a team to add regular entries?
This blog is clear and easy to read, and is about a topic that I have an interest in. The only bad thing about this blog is that it only has occasional updates, but they are good updates. I'd rather have quality and useful blog posts than lots of long useless ones. This blog is supposed to have 5 contributors but it appears that only one of them has updated the posts in the last 2 years. This blog could potentially benefit from the others contributing on a regular basis. So a key point with blogs is how to you motivate a team to add regular entries?
Activity 3 - confusing blog
The first blog that I have looked at is called Confessions of a Science Librarian: http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/
I found it confusing to understand who his target audience was, was it other science librarians, friends, or just his own personal online diary. For me the content was very mixed. Some of the content is detailed information about science librarian conferences that he has attended and the next entry are his top five songs. I don't like this mix of content, so from this I'm guessing that a blog should really have a target audience who you can imagine yourself addressing with each entry. I also found the font size of the text to be very small and hard on the eyes to read.
Some of his posts are a little too long and I think that short to the point entries work best.
I did like that he had a photo of himself as it made the blog some more personal
I found it confusing to understand who his target audience was, was it other science librarians, friends, or just his own personal online diary. For me the content was very mixed. Some of the content is detailed information about science librarian conferences that he has attended and the next entry are his top five songs. I don't like this mix of content, so from this I'm guessing that a blog should really have a target audience who you can imagine yourself addressing with each entry. I also found the font size of the text to be very small and hard on the eyes to read.
Some of his posts are a little too long and I think that short to the point entries work best.
I did like that he had a photo of himself as it made the blog some more personal
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