To blog or not to blog,

that is the question for researchers

Sam Aston and Lisa JeskinsLILAC 2012

Discuss how writing a blog can be useful for research? 5 mins? 

http://homelessinstoke.com/2010/02/22/8‐reasons‐why‐researchers‐should‐blog/

Jeff Bullas “considers blogging to be biggest revolution in publishing since the Gutenberg press.”

Why? 

Ease of use

Rise of the social network

Low cost and high speed   broadband

Low cost hardware

Flickr CC: David Masters h // fl k / h /d d / /

• Examine the following blogs: Examine the following blogs and talk to your neighbour about the questions on your handout

Joeyanne Libraryannehttp://www.joeyanne.co.uk/

Laura’s Dark Archivehttp://darkarchive.wordpress.com/

Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0 http://infolitlib20.blogspot.co.uk/

Adapting today’s workshop

• Find blogs that are relevant to your audience

• Set up a blog 

• Interaction with blog as an exercise, post a comment or post

• Feedback suggested a need to cover setting up a blog, attracting an audience and copyright issues

Flickr CC: Charles Haynes ‐ http://www.flickr.com/photos/haynes/11360360/

Any Questions? 

Email:sam.aston@manchester.ac.uklisa.jeskins@manchester.ac.uk