Be a good blogger

I felt guilty for not posting things in the last couple days. This post "the first 7 days of blogging" gives some good advices to bloggers, I will try my best to do as he suggested. ( I rearranged the orders since I rank the importance differently from the author)
- Pick a blog topic and stick with it
- Be consistent on the post frequency (here I need improvements)
- Get to the point on the contents
- Add flavor and unique things to your post
- Set up your post properly (I need to work on this, but I think you can do it gradually)

Joy of Learning

Signed up for a bloglines account and subscribed to several library related blogs. The readings were so good and for me it seems an eye-opening look into a new librarianship. Got to 'steal' some ideas, application to use on our library website and services. I also steped into a MLIS course on "social software and library", the whole course in on blog format, using blog to study blog, what a great idea. The sidebar has a link to worldwide library or librarian blogs. Wow, never realized there are so many fellow librarians are doing blogs.

On Google, I've gathered lots of good sites in my "bookmarks" for my professional readings. Need to get it organized. I've been installing Google toolbar on all the workstations that I am using, my work computer, my home computer, the staff rotating laptop, and the service desks computer. Making the bookmarks available online does make the reading and learning more easiler.

I also discovered the "google webmaster tools", sound interesting, will look more closely later.

Blog

Blog is not so new to me. I started one for my family 2 years ago. Unfortunately was not able to keep up with it. Couple reasons: dull templates; long publishing time; not a good Chinese language support; the most important reason is that my family member at china cannot access the blog server. without audience, I stop the blog. That is the nature of those social software, isn't it?

This time I switched to the beta version, it seems much better, at least for now. No more long waiting for publishing posts. I haven't tried Chinese input. But I like the idea of being able to customize the templates, give me more flexibilities. I read about the multiple posting accounts and the categories, that what I've been wanting. Will try to use them in my future posts.