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June 25, 2012

Guest post by Lindsay Green: Multi–Author Blogging

Lindsay Green works as an Academic Support Officer in the Library, handling enquiries, creating tutorials and investigating new ways that the Library can support the University of Warwick's academic community. She attended a recent event and blogs about it here.

Mark Carrigan ran an excellent session on Multi-Author Blogging in the Wolfson Research Exchange at the end of May. The main points I took from the session are as follows:

Blogging

  • No right or wrong way to blog
  • Feelings of guilt – not coming up with a regular blog entry
  • If not frequently updated, less likely to be viewed by others

Multi-author blog advantages

  • Greater frequency of posting of blogs if multi-authored
  • Range of authors leads to more ideas being blogged about – variety
  • Makes the blog more dynamic
  • Attracts readers → attracts writers → becomes more self-sustaining

Suggestions for successful multi-author blogging

1) Keep content back, creating a store of content to use when nobody is able to create a post. This helps encourage frequency of updates, in turn helping avoid loss of interest by readers which is likely to happen if no new content is appearing.


2) Look at purpose of blog:

  • what is to be published
  • what is not published
  • consider what readers will gain from visiting the blog regularly

3) Consider who in the team is responsible for doing what


4) Promotion of blog:

  • Consider existing channels e.g. H-netfor humanities scholars
  • Make sure domain name is registered
  • Set up Twitter feed, automatically tweeting new posts
  • Announce to other websites, feature guest blogposts from other sites

5) Sustain the blog:

  • Frequent updates, suggests 1-2 a week more constantly rather than e.g. 5 in one week then gap
  • Engage with readers – tweet for more details about things you are blogging about
  • Clarification – refine your purpose, evolve and change according to circumstances


Useful links





Jenny Delasalle : 25 Jun 2012 10:00 |  Tags:     |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

October 04, 2011

Tips for researchers who blog

Here is a summary of my tips to a researcher who is just beginning to blog:

My top tip for blogging is to set up a feed from Feedburner.com from the place where you blog regularly. You can publicise this and then you’ll know who is subscribing to your feed. Also, you can use it to create a feed for people to subscribe by e-mail, which more researchers are comfortable with than for RSS feeds.

And you can use your blog as a way to tweet, if you set up a Twitter account. Just send Twitter a feed of the headings from your blog and that way you can reach an audience of twitterers!

Then link the feed up to your LinkedIn profile via Typepad.com, and get busy making contacts there so that other people can find out about your work in LinkedIn, if that’s the site they like to use. You can also put a profile onto Academia.edu and/or Mendeley.com and make connections on those sites.

There are so many profile sites and I like LinkedIn for being professional in the way people use it and for integrating your blog and other tools like Slideshare into one place. PhD students are very keen on Mendeley as being a useful place to store papers as well as to put information about themselves and it does seem pretty good at hosting stuff from other sites in a similar way to LinkedIn too. I guess that, as a researcher, you'd want to use the site where most of the people who you want to connect with are already present.

I also think that published authors should also get a ResearcherID off the Thomson Reuters page, if you have articles in Web of Science. You can put a badge from there onto your blog or any profile site, as an easy way of showing off your publications on your blog! I blogged about this a while ago: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/libresearch/entry/researcherid/

Also, when you're blogging, it's a good idea to schedule entries for publication during busy times, so that you don't feel that it is a chore to always have to write something on your blog when you have other, more pressing things to do. Recycle stuff that you're writing anyway, in correspondence or as notes for youreslf and keep your blog active and attr

All 7 entries tagged Blogs

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June 25, 2012

Guest post by Lindsay Green: Multi–Author Blogging

Lindsay Green works as an Academic Support Officer in the Library, handling enquiries, creating tutorials and investigating new ways that the Library can support the University of Warwick's academic community. She attended a recent event and blogs about it here.

Mark Carrigan ran an excellent session on Multi-Author Blogging in the Wolfson Research Exchange at the end of May. The main points I took from the session are as follows:

Blogging

  • No right or wrong way to blog
  • Feelings of guilt – not coming up with a regular blog entry
  • If not frequently updated, less likely to be viewed by others

Multi-author blog advantages

  • Greater frequency of posting of blogs if multi-authored
  • Range of authors leads to more ideas being blogged about – variety
  • Makes the blog more dynamic
  • Attracts readers → attracts writers → becomes more self-sustaining

Suggestions for successful multi-author blogging

1) Keep content back, creating a store of content to use when nobody is able to create a post. This helps encourage frequency of updates, in turn helping avoid loss of interest by readers which is likely to happen if no new content is appearing.


2) Look at purpose of blog:

  • what is to be published
  • what is not published
  • consider what readers will gain from visiting the blog regularly

3) Consider who in the team is responsible for doing what


4) Promotion of blog:

  • Consider existing channels e.g. H-netfor humanities scholars
  • Make sure domain name is registered
  • Set up Twitter feed, automatically tweeting new posts
  • Announce to other websites, feature guest blogposts from other sites

5) Sustain the blog:

  • Frequent updates, suggests 1-2 a week more constantly rather than e.g. 5 in one week then gap
  • Engage with readers – tweet for more details about things you are blogging about
  • Clarification – refine your purpose, evolve and change according to circumstances


Useful links





Jenny Delasalle : 25 Jun 2012 10:00 |  Tags:     |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

October 04, 2011

Tips for researchers who blog

Here is a summary of my tips to a researcher who is just beginning to blog:

My top tip for blogging is to set up a feed from Feedburner.com from the place where you blog regularly. You can publicise this and then you’ll know who is subscribing to your feed. Also, you can use it to create a feed for people to subscribe by e-mail, which more researchers are comfortable with than for RSS feeds.

And you can use your blog as a way to tweet, if you set up a Twitter account. Just send Twitter a feed of the headings from your blog and that way you can reach an audience of twitterers!

Then link the feed up to your LinkedIn profile via Typepad.com, and get busy making contacts there so that other people can find out about your work in LinkedIn, if that’s the site they like to use. You can also put a profile onto Academia.edu and/or Mendeley.com and make connections on those sites.

There are so many profile sites and I like LinkedIn for being professional in the way people use it and for integrating your blog and other tools like Slideshare into one place. PhD students are very keen on Mendeley as being a useful place to store papers as well as to put information about themselves and it does seem pretty good at hosting stuff from other sites in a similar way to LinkedIn too. I guess that, as a researcher, you'd want to use the site where most of the people who you want to connect with are already present.

I also think that published authors should also get a ResearcherID off the Thomson Reuters page, if you have articles in Web of Science. You can put a badge from there onto your blog or any profile site, as an easy way of showing off your publications on your blog! I blogged about this a while ago: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/libresearch/entry/researcherid/

Also, when you're blogging, it's a good idea to schedule entries for publication during busy times, so that you don't feel that it is a chore to always have to write something on your blog when you have other, more pressing things to do. Recycle stuff that you're writing anyway, in correspondence or as notes for youreslf and keep your blog active and attr

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