Workshop Outline

The half-day workshop has been divided into four parts during which delegates will register and set-up a blog for themselves, and add content to those blogs.

The venue is the St Georges Hotel.

The times listed below are estimated.

Registration: 8.30 am (to start at 9am)

9 am
Introduction and goals of workshop
Blogs: history and genre
Blogs for Libraries
Start your own blog: Registration, set-up and first posting


9:45 am
Examples of different genres of blogs from blogosphere
Guidelines to good blogging -- the do's and don'ts
More blogging: Adding links to your blog

TEA TIME

11 am
Advanced blogging -- permalinks, trackbacks etc
Legal & Ethical issues
More blogging: uploading images to your blog

11:45 am
Related technologies including RSS, tagging, Flickr, podcasting, wikis, mash-ups demystified.
More blogging: Adding more content -- and a little more advanced Blogging

We should end at about 12.30 pm.