This document discusses habits of effective bloggers. It notes that effective blogs have open editorial policies, multiple writers, and receive thousands of views per month. Effective bloggers practice "conversational scholarship" through collaborating, publishing, and sharing to facilitate learning and discussion. Blogging provides freedom but also requires work like starting now, keeping posts consistent, writing for yourself, sharing, and finding inspiration from various sources.

1. Michelle Dalton
Liaison Librarian, UCD Library t @mishdalton
#laicilip14
Habits of
Highly
Effective
Bloggers

2. Habits of
Highly
Effective
Bloggers*
(*not me)

3. libfocus.com
november 2011
open editorial policy
300+ posts
30+ different writers
10,000+ views a month

4. organisation
& corporate
blogs
personal
blogs

5. (Melissa Gregg, 2006)
“conversational
scholarship”

6. …but different
Source: http://angiesweetgirl.deviantart.com/art/Christmas-snowflakes-275898008
it’s like ‘writing’

7. collaborating
publishing
blogging
sharing
communicating
learning
discussing
creatingreflecting
thinking
informing

8. entry point
complement

9. no author guidelines
no word counts
no conventions
no restrictions
no formatting

10. freedom
is not free.

11. Habits

12. start now
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/4222533261

13. Copyright: Tom Gauld http://myjetpack.tumblr.com/

14. keep going

16. write for
yourself

17. Harald Weinreich et al. (2008) “Not Quite the Average: An Empirical Study of Web Use,” ACM Transactions on the Web, vol. 2, no. 1 (Feb)
on an average web page
(593 words) users only
stay long enough to read
up to 28%
engage

18. 55% spend less than
Source: Tony Haile, 9th March 2014, http://time.com/12933/what-you-think-you-know-about-the-web-is-wrong/
actively on a page
15 SECONDS

19. sharehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/castaway_in_wales/4872069327/

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21. find inspiration
every
where

22. thematic blogs

23. journal clubs

24. group blogs

25. guest posts

26. thank you
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Michelle Dalton / Liaison Librarian, UCD