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In typical weblog fashion, posts are displayed in reverse-chronological order. This is great for a weblog and makes perfect sense. But, for a training exercise about weblogs - well, you get the idea. If we want to start this workshop at the beginning we need to work from the bottom of the weblog page back up to the top. So scroll on down and work your way back to the top.

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Setting up a weblog is the easy and fun part. Sustaining it is tough. Develop a strategy for your weblog that will compliment the services you currently provide to library patrons. These discussion points are important to address at all stages of your weblog development. Who do you expect to read your weblog?Is the weblog a voice for the library or for particular staff members?Who will be the

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Experiment with other weblog editing tools. If you have technical expertise and servers in-house, you might want to consider installing some of the popular weblog tools that are distributed through the open-source initiative. These include Movable Type, SlashCode, GreyMatter, and LiveJournal. Hosted weblog services are provided at several locations including, TypePad, we::blog, Big Blog Tool,

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As your weblog effuses, it will be become increasingly difficult to find that post that piqued your curiosity a few months earlier. A search option makes your weblog instantly searchable. Atomz continues to garner praise and accolades for their search services. From Atomz's Express Search:Atomz Express Search is a free, reduced-feature version of Atomz Search that includes everything you need

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MyMediaList.com is a free hosted service that requires registration to use. The service allows you to store, edit and format your own list of music, films, books and games that can be pulled into any blog or website. This seems like a natural fit for a Readers' Advisory weblog. The web link you enter in MyMediaList.com can direct people to any online book purchasing website and can include

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To fully undestand the potential of news aggregators, let's install AmpethaDesk and then add our XML news feed to its list of channels. Download the AmpethaDesk software and then take the quick tour. Add your weblog as a channel by selecting Add a Channel, type in the URL of your RSS file (e.g. http://blogtrain00.blogspot.com/rss/blogtrain00.xml), clik on the "Add This Channel" button. Return

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Blogger supports automatic generation of an RSS XML file through the Settings - RSS. Only items that have titles will be included in the RSS file (that's one of the main reasons we turned titles on in Exercise 2. Our RSS feed for this blog is shown to the left of the page. The file automatically generated through Blogger for this weblog is: http://blogtrain00.blogspot.com/rss/blogtrain00.xml.

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The benefit of producing an RSS feed is having the ability to pull in various RSS feeds or news feeds into an application. RSS Aggregators are applications that save you time online by allowing you to configure the listing of news feeds you would like to track. The application retrieves and formats the RSS XML files into a composite listing, allowing you to quickly, within one interface, preview

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If you become an avid blogger, web syndication is essential to help promote your weblog as well as help you monitor all the weblogs on your daily read list. RSS most commonly referred to as Rich Site Summary, is sometimes called Real Simple Syndication or RDF Site Syntax. The Introduction to RSS featured in the Blogger RSS Settings states: "Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight XML format

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Enetation, annotation of all things web, is a commenting system that allows free subscriptions to the service. It is a hosting service which means that your comments are hosted on the enetation server. Several commenting system solutions exist including HaloScan, SquawkBox and others. Commenting systems include hosted services, as well as downloadable code that can be installed and configured on

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Weblogs are replete with links to other weblog postings. The dynamic archival arrangement of blog entries makes it difficult to find a post for more than a day or so. Permalinks solve this problem by creating a permanent identifier for an entry which can be used as a link to find the post in the future. Biz Stone provides clear examples on creating Blogger-permalinks in his book, Blogging,

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Content makes a weblog successful and it takes quite a bit of creative energy to keep the content fresh and constantly updated. With Blogger you can add people as team members to your weblog. Depending on how much editorial control you would like your teammates to have, you can allow them to post items or to serve as an administrator (giving them full control of your weblog including access to

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Ever spend an afternoon looking at wallpaper samples? Weblog templates are just as much fun to experiment with and can be further customized to blend in with your other library websites. Experiment with templates BEFORE you customize your template with add-on tools and formats. If you change a template you will lose any customization you have done. This can be a painful lesson - so decorate first

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Choose a more descriptive title and summary for your weblog. Go into Settings from the Blogger toolbar and click on the Basics tab. Type in a new title and description for your weblog; click on the "save changes" button. While you are changing the settings for your weblog, also review the Publishing, Archiving, and Email settings. Finally, make a modification to the Formatting settings.

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Using your class account (if you do not have a class account, you can create a free account on Blogger), login to your weblog at Blogger.com. Enter the following paragraph or something similar: "This edition of the Readers' Advisory Training Weblog contains the results of the completed exercises from http://blogtrain00.blogspot.com." Use the tools on the editing bar to highlight the URL you

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Blogger is the most popular tool for weblog creation. Weblogs created using blogger can be published on a free hosting service supported by Blogger, Blogspot.com, or can be transferred (ftped) to your own website. For this workshop, we will be working with weblogs hosted at Blogspot and created using Blogger. Our workshop weblog can be accessed at http://blogtrain00.blogspot.com. Each student has

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Take a look at the books on weblogs provided under the links section.

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weblog 1) A weblog (sometimes shortened to blog or written as "web log" or "Weblog") is a Web site of personal or non-commercial origin that uses a dated log format that is updated on a daily or very frequent basis with new information about a particular subject or range of subjects. The information can be written by the site owner, gleaned from other Web sites or other sources, or contributed by

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Rebecca Blood provides a look at the brief history of weblogs and their rapid rise as a viable communication medium in weblogs: a history and perspective.

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Welcome to the training resources weblog for creating a Readers' Advisory weblog. This blog will provide links to existing weblogs related to libraries and reading. In addition, tools will be featured which can extend the functionality of your weblog. The workshop agenda will follow the postings of this weblog, including: 1. Overview of Weblogs 2. Weblogs in Libraries and Readers' Services

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