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Introducing WOMBLINK (sadly, having nothing to do with wombats)
By Meredith Farkas | December 6, 2006
I think I will second Jill Stover’s nomination of Ken Varnum for the title of “great guy”. In response to some comments on his blog regarding library marketing, Ken created WOMBLINK, a way for libraries to easily spread the word about their services (and for bloggers to easily spread the word for them).
From Ken’s blog, RSS4Lib:
The concept is straightforward. A WOMBLINK is a link provided by a library web site directly back to a specific web page. It is designed to be included in weblogs and is meant to be drop-dead easy for the librarian and patron to use, requiring nothing more than copying and pasting for the site publisher or the blogger.
So what is it? A WOMBLINK is two lines of HTML that, when included on a web page, display the words “Blog This”. A prospective blogger can click on this link and receive a second short snippet of HTML that includes a link directly to the original web page as well as a small logo provided by the site owner.
What a great way to make it so easy for people to blog about your library’s services and programs! Nice work, Ken!
Here’s another reason that Ken is great: he’s a fellow fan of wombats. I’ve had a weird fascination with them ever since I had to do a report on wombats in fourth grade. There’s just something about ‘em!
Topics: blogging | 9 Comments »
December 7th, 2006 at 7:31 am
Such an… um… feminine name!
December 7th, 2006 at 8:54 am
That’s funny. You think womb, I think wombat.
December 7th, 2006 at 10:16 am
I thought “womb,” too. Which is funnier!
December 7th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Guess I need to get more in touch with my feminine side!
December 7th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
I must be in touch with my feminine side, because I thought “womb,” too.
December 7th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
maybe you all need to be more in touch with your wombat side
December 8th, 2006 at 6:02 am
Not to be a crassly amateur linguist, but if it were to make us think of wombats, the word would have to be womlink. wom*bat, wom*link. The break is at the syllable. A silly syllable point! (Now we can all reflect what a “womb-bat” would look like..!)
December 8th, 2006 at 11:04 am
If I get in touch with my wombat side in public, I could get arrested.
(Now we can all reflect what a “womb-bat” would look like..!)
And now my brain is broken.
March 4th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
(Now we can all reflect what a “womb-bat” would look like..!)
Of course, a wombat looks like this: http://www.wombania.com/wombats