Best Bets for Bloggers
Presented at Public Library Division
Mid-Winter Conference
Katie Moellering
Emmet O’Neal Library
205.445.1118
Below is a complete list of the blogs and other websites I mentioned in my section of today’s presentation. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments, and thanks for joining us today!
Top Sites for Blogs:
Wordpress: www.wordpress.org
Typepad: www.typepad.com
Blogger: www.blogger.com
Gather Your Stats!
Site Meter: www.sitemeter.com
Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics/
Feedburner: www.feedburner.com
What is RSS and why do I need it?
Check out this quick and dirty definition over at Feed 101: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/feed101
RSS Readers (so you can subscribe to ALL those blogs you want to read!)
Bloglines: www.bloglines.com
GoogleReader: www.google.com/reader
Pageflakes: www.pageflakes.com
Feedburner: www.feedburner.com
* Take a look at all of these sites before you decide which one to use, they offer some pretty neat services above and beyond blog subscription services.
Challenge Blogs:
100+ - You can find this “little” challenge here:
http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/2008/11/2009-100-reading-challenge.html
The challenge? Read 100+ books this year, and review them! This is a great way to get out there in the blogosphere and be social! It’s also a really great way to hone those writing skills J
R.I.P. – This one is a favorite of ours at Emmet O’Neal because many of us are big fans of horror writing! R.I.P. stands for Readers Imbibing Peril and is a horror fiction challenge, although the challenge rules have morphed in the past few years. You can read more about this challenge here:www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com. For THE master list of reading challenges check out this blog: http://novelchallenges.blogspot.com. The author, a self described “ravenous reader” wanted a place to go in the blogosphere to find all the reading challenges in one spot. It’s quite a list, and a lot of fun. Offering reading challenges is a fun and easy way to broaden your reading list and your blog readers at one time!
Library Blogs You Should Visit:
Public Library Blogs Wiki: http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Public_libraries
Emmet O’Neal Library - http://eolib.blogspot.com/
Gardendale Public Library – The Book Drop: http://gardendalebookdrop.blogspot.com/
Librarians Who Blog:
The Shifted Librarian: http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/
Free Range Librarian: http://freerangelibrarian.com/
Librarian.net: www.librarian.net
Librarian In Black: http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/
Some Great RA Blogs:
Amazon Daily (it’s not just books!): http://www.amazon.com/gp/daily
Bantam Dell News: http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/news/
Book Club Girl: http://www.bookclubgirl.com/book_club_girl/atom.xml
Book Group Buzz: http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/feed/
Knopf Borzoi Reader: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/index.xml
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: http://www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Fantasy Book Critic: http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Early Word: http://www.earlyword.com/feed/
Library Journal Pre-Pub Alerts: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibraryJournal-PrepubAlerts
Potter Craft News: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/pottercraftnews/blog/index.xml
Reader’s Advisor Online Blog: http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/blog/index.php/feed/
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