All entries for Friday 04 May 2007

Technorati

Writing about web page http://www.technorati.com

I have just added this blog to Technorati. My understanding is that Technorati is a searchable web catalogue of active blogs. You choose whether to be listed or not (and the process of adding your blog seems easy, but took me about 5 attempts) and you choose, I think, which of your entries are made available via it. You send a "ping" (see Netlingo for what seems like a reasonable definition)  with each entry you want Technorati to know about. 

Technorati also ranks the blogs listed there, I am ranked 676,464 today (this changes all the time). I think this means that 676,463 blogs listed on Technorati have more other blogs linking to them than mine has. Initially this number can make you feel a little insignificant, but when you realise that (today) Technorati tracks 79.2 million blogs world-wide, you begin to get the bigger picture.

Hopefully adding it to Technorati (starting to sound like a silly word as I have used it so many times in this entry already) will increase traffic to my blog - thats the idea - makes it easier to find. You can also add tags to your blog so that people searching for your topics get pointed in your direction. 

I will track this with Google Analytics, but I think Technorati do a bit of that for you as well - I'll have to look into it. Anyway, I'll be interested to see if adding the blog to Technorati - (I really have typed it too many times now) actually does increase page views.

Anyone else used T......?

Katharine Widdows : 04 May 2007 22:14 |  Tags: Blog Blogging Communication Elearning Google |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem

The cost to the profession

Follow-up to Stop smoking! from When I grow up I want to be a Librarian!

I will add an entry later, when I have done a bit of research, about how smoking, and the stopping of it, relates to the Library (and any other) profession.

I think the following general points are noteworthy:

• Environmental impact
• Health and Safety
  
• Personal satisfaction
• Personal development
• Efficient time keeping
• Employee relations
• Networking
  

Katharine Widdows : 04 May 2007 21:17 |  Tags: Change Personaldevelopment Smoking |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem