1. Blogtastic! Making It Easy to Stay on Top of Your Professional Reading A presentation by Shelly Drumm With help from Trudy Cleveland, Judy Caramanica, and Denise Coles

2. What We Will Cover Definitions A brief history of blogging Use and management of blogs Finding relevant blogs Using an RSS aggregator

3. For Another Time… Setting up a blog Instructional applications That other time… Feb 24 at Central College CIC TBA at NW College CIC

4. Brief Definition Web-based Journal Regularly updated Maintained by one or many Dedicated to specific topic Personal diaries Corporations Academic disciplines / Professions Current Events

5. In The Beginning… 1997 – “Weblog” coined Evolved from usenet groups Link sharing Often techy in nature 1999 – “Blog” coined Blogger.com is launched Emerging into more mainstream uses

6. The Blog-splosion War bloggers Matt Welch Instapundit Lefty political mavens Atrios Daily Kos Etc…

7. And More… Word of the year, 2004 Rathergate and Lott’s fall Campaigns Dean Bush Kerry

8. And More…

9. Why They’re Different Frequent posts Anyone can do it! Blogger.com Livejournal.com Etc. Syndication Comments Less formal venue

10. Mainstream Media?

11. Great Professional Tools Immediate Current Learning from the best Blogrolls Community-building Syndication

12. RSS/XML/Atom feeds My Yahoo! or MyMsn Headlines Sports scores Stock quotes RSS Aggregators/ Feed Readers

13. More About RSS Blogs aren’t the only ones NY Times CNN BBC ESPN And on, and on… More: http://weblogs.about.com/cs/rssxml/a/rssbasics.htm http://www.rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html

14. And On To The Demo Look at examples Find discipline specific blogs Set up an RSS aggregator Creating an account Subscribing to blogs