Blogging and RSS: Beyond the Basics what you really need to know to make them work

Defining the Purpose Book Reviews News Subject Portals Website Redesign Photo by chrisjohnbeckett

Book Reviews

News

Subject Portals

Website Redesign

Housekeeping Policies Staffing Motivation Support Photo by Crystl

Policies

Staffing

Commonalities Viewer options multiple author options categories multiple formats WYSIWIGs RSS plug-ins Photo by almoco

Viewer options

multiple author options

categories

multiple formats

WYSIWIGs

RSS

plug-ins

Blogger free hosted, supports own domain open API Google goodies built in Feedburner

free

hosted, supports own domain

open API

Google goodies

built in Feedburner

WordPress.com free hosted widgets 60 themes autosave Akismet importing tags posts to the future

free

hosted

widgets

60 themes

autosave

Akismet

importing

tags

posts to the future

WordPress.org everything of .com plus non-hosted control Open Source requires server space - PHP 4.2 and MySQL 4.0

everything of .com plus

non-hosted

control

Open Source

requires server space - PHP 4.2 and MySQL 4.0

WordPressMu multi-user platform for thousands of blogs and users with unique permissions Photo by pingnews.com

multi-user platform for thousands of blogs and users with unique permissions

MoveableType non-hosted free for personal use only fees for support and everything else integrates with your authentication system junk mail file file management tags and widgets email notification Atom API programming interfaces

non-hosted

free for personal use only

fees for support and everything else

integrates with your authentication system

junk mail file

file management

tags and widgets

email notification

Atom API

programming interfaces

Examples Boise State U Library U of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library Virginia Commonwealth U Library For more see Blog Without A Library Wiki Academic Libraries list

Boise State U Library

U of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library

Virginia Commonwealth U Library

For more see Blog Without A Library Wiki Academic Libraries list

RSS getting what you need to the users, giving them what they want Photo by Susan NYC

getting what you need to the users,

FeedBurner

Making the Old Look New Feed2JS FeedBlendr Grazr Photo by St. Fnordius

Feed2JS

FeedBlendr

Grazr

Making the Old Act New FeedYes ListGarden Photo by J.C. Rojas

FeedYes

ListGarden

Michelle Boule http://wanderingeyre.com [email_address] AIM: LeFey6

http://wanderingeyre.com

[email_address]

AIM: LeFey6