So I'm taking a course this summer semester about Management Principles (IST 614 for my iSchool pals). And a vocabularly word in our textbook is "Blog" and then we have a whole "Management Decision" based around blogging and what it is. And I realize a couple things:
1) Not everyone knows what blogging is. Which is kind of weird to me. Though I've never been an avid blogger (as evidence by the fact that I post every 6 months or so), I do enjoy reading blogs and subscribe to many and read them almost daily. The fact that there is an entire Management exercise based around understanding what blogging is and how it could be used to the advantage of companies kind of ignited me to blog. I believe that would be ironic.
2) I started thinking about how to make this work in a library setting. Like, you can create a blog, you can update it regularly or irregularly, but how do you get people to use it? It's such an optional tool that could have sooo much potential, especially for those of us in library land. I mean, it is so fast and easy to sit down and jot off a quick blog, and if people have subscribed to your RSS feed, boom, they have the information available to them. But how to make it most effective? I mean, a newletter comes in the mail, we all check the mail every day (well at least most of us do), so we at least have it sitting on the counter. But what about people who don't even know what a blog is? How useful it can be? How would I explain and get my grandmother to use a blog? That's what I started thinking of. Still working on it.
That's really all I've got for now. Maybe I'll start blogging more. Never really felt I had "important" things to say. But maybe as my education and career advances I'll find this tool to be more useful to me. Maybe see you soon! Maybe not for another six months!
