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Things to Read:

• Fichter, D. Why and how to use blogs to promote your library’sservices. From infotoday.com. Short link: http://tinyurl.com/5cg8h
• Boule, M. Blogging Platforms for Teachers and School Librarians at http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/12/blogging-platforms-for-teachers-and-school-librarians.html
  
• Garrod, P. (2004). Weblogs: Do they belong in libraries. From ariadnne.ac.uk. Short link: http://tinyurl.com/29eq8u
• The Importance of RSS. From particletree.com. Short link: http://tinyurl.com/a3pvf
• Tennant, R. (2003). Feed your head: Keeping up by using RSS. from Library Journal. Short link: http://tinyurl.com/2677gj

Things to Explore/Skim/Review:

• Intro to Blogs presentation- Short link: http://tinyurl.com/yoljae
• Technorati
• NetVibes
• SuperGlu

For more on understanding blogs, watch the Common Craft video “Blogs in Plain English” below:

For more info on RSS, see the Common Craft video “RSS in Plain English” below:

This page is adapted from Learning 2.0 at SLJ. Learning 2.0 is a discovery learning program created by Helene Blowers. Content and style for School Library Learning 2.0 and Classroom Learning 2.0 have been borrowed and duplicated with permission, under a Creative Commons License. This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.