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Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide Second Edition
Author(s): Michael P. Sauers (Author)
- Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
- Publication Date: October 14, 2010
- Edition: Second
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 1573873993
- ISBN-13: 9781573873994
Book Description
In this fully updated second edition of his popular 2006 book, Michael P. Sauers shows how blogging and RSS technology can be easily and successfully used by libraries and librarians. In addition to providing easy-to-follow instructions for creating, publishing, and syndicating a blog using free web-based services, software, RSS feeds, and aggregators, Sauers covers new tools and services, introduces numerous useful library blogs and bloggers, and includes a new chapter on microblogging with Twitter.
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Sauers has been blogging since 1999. His blog, travelinlibrarian.info, is a frequently visited one, and it exemplifies what he promotes in this how-to guide, an update to a book published in 2006. Are you a beginner and need an introduction to blogs? See chapter 1. Need just a short course on how to create a blog? See chapter 4, �Creating a Blog.� Need information on RSS feeds? See chapter 5, �An Introduction to RSS,� and chapter 6, �Using an Aggregator.� New to this edition is �Microblogging with Twitter.� Sauers tweets, too, with more than 1,600 followers, but even more impressive are his 14,000 tweets! There are now a number of choices in the professional literature for educating oneself about blogging, but Sauers has the deep experience to keep readers coming back. Recommended. –Jerry Carbone
