Technorati

Technorati could be valuable to see what people are saying about our library in blogs - using the URL search to see who is linking to us and what they find important. It's also another way to get feedback on what we do. Seeing how people tag us should help us improve our search function and maybe open new areas that we should explore in more depth.

Technorati could also help us track various topics that we want to keep up to speed on. Using authority and keywords we can find the top blogs in relevant fields to help us keep up to speed on what's going on in, say, foreclosure sales or library automation. Mary Ellen Bates used the example of searching for biofuels in this manner.

I would think to maintain authority you would want to revisit technorati periodically to see if new voices have come along that might either dispute or drive down your picks.

23 Things

Well, I'm getting a late start on this, but I want to make it before the deadline so here goes. My blog here has sat dormant since my web 2.0 class at SLA 2008 in Seattle. I thought this would be a good time to revive the blog to take advantage of what I've learned so far.

In setting up this blog, we used the suggestions of the instructors in choosing a provider. I have several friends who use blogger had find it quite user friendly. At work we use Typepad for our blogs (including the oh-so creatively named InfoCentral Blog which I help to write). Blogger seems more user-friendly with one row of tools on the bar instead of separate windows to upload images. So far it's been fairly easy going in Blogger. We'll see how it goes.