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Thursday, April 10th, 2008the group – for Connie
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I had a really wonderful time at Computers in Libraries, as always. While there are always certain talks where the delivery is disappointing or where you don’t learn anything, I went to a lot of talks that were [...]
I won’t be your April fool
Friday, April 4th, 2008I’m a pretty tolerant person, but there is one thing in this world that bothers me more than anything else: dishonesty. I am extremely trusting and will take what people tell me at face value. When I find that I’m being deceived, it really makes me angry and frustrated. When I suspect that I’m being [...]
Marketing to bloggers
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Word-of-mouth marketing is a very powerful thing. When you can generate buzz for your product among the people who are using it, what they say about it will probably do more good than any traditional marketing campaign. So, it stands to reason that when you have a new online product or service, bloggers can be [...]
Don’t take what you know for granted
Friday, January 4th, 2008As liaison to all of the distance learning programs at our University, I frequently deal with our Interlibrary Loan Librarian. We can’t do traditional book interlibrary loan with our distance learners because the loan times do not allow sufficient time for us to ship the materials to the student and for the student to consult [...]
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Pfew! All done publishing the results of the 2007 Survey of the Biblioblosophere!
To refresh your memory, here are all of the posts about this year’s survey:
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results from Various Filters
Interesting Facts from [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results from Various Filters
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Before I lost my Survey Monkey pro account, I created a bunch of results filters and exported them as PDF files. They allow you to see how a group who answered one question a certain way answered all of the questions in the survey. I think they add richness to the results and I’m sure [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007For comparison to the 2005 results (though some questions are new) visit Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors
23. What is the primary way that you read blog content?
ResponsePercent
ResponseCount
I visit each blog individually
15.1%
118
I read blogs in a Web-based RSS aggregator (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc.)
71.1%
557
I read blogs in a desktop RSS aggregator (MS Outlook, Vienna, NetNewsWire, [...]
Favorite blogs – List and Commentary
Sunday, September 30th, 2007The Top 10
1. Annoyed Librarian
2. Librarian in Black
3. Information Wants to be Free
4. Librarian.net
5. Tame the Web
6. Free Range Librarian
7. Library Stuff
8. Caveat Lector
9. Walt at Random
10. The Shifted Librarian
(for the rest of the results, see just below the commentary)
What can we learn from this? That no top ___ librar* blogs list is going to [...]
Great stuff before the great trip
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007In three days, I’ll be on a plane, flying to Copenhagen, Denmark. I lived there for almost a year in college and I haven’t been back in nine years. I’m speaking at a conference on Sociale teknologier i fremtidens bibliotek 2.0 (Social Software and the Future of Library 2.0) on September 27. I absolutely can’t [...]
Are you a group blogger?
Monday, September 17th, 2007Then consider taking this survey on group blogging that my friends down under developed. They will be presenting the results at the VALA2008 Conference. The survey looks at motivations for contributing to a group blog, getting started, and how you keep it going. Considering that well over 200 people in the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere [...]
Are 1/4 of library bloggers cowards?
Monday, September 17th, 2007If you believe what some people have been saying, maybe so. I didn’t want to be on an Annoyed Librarian kick, but she commented on something that had been bothering me for a while; the assertion that people who blog anonymously (or pseudonymously) are cowards.
Considering the number of bloggers who do not identify themselves [...]
What makes a blog successful?
Saturday, September 8th, 2007“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
-Walt Whitman
Steven Bell wrote a comment on my post about the Top Three Library-Related Blogs survey:
I hate to be a curmudgeon or party pooper, but I’m not sure I like this idea – in general I think it’s a bad [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
Friday, September 7th, 2007You can find comparisons from 2005 at Blog Demographics and Why We Blog.
12. How long have you had your primary blog?
ResponsePercent
ResponseCount
Less than 4 months
16.6%
131
4-8 months
14.2%
112
9 months – 1 year
15.3%
121
13 months to 2 years
23.4%
185
25 months to 3 years
14.8%
117
37 months to 4 years
7.1%
56
49 months to 5 years
3.7%
29
61 months to 6 years
2.8%
22
73 months to 7 years
1.1%
9
More than 7 [...]
Top Three Library-Related Blogs Survey
Friday, September 7th, 2007As an addendum to my Survey of the Biblioblogosphere and in response to the recent discussions about rating and ranking library blogs, I’ve created a survey where people can name their top three favorite library-related blogs. People use a lot of metrics to rank blogs, but I never see anyone actually asking people what their [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007Here are the 2005 results so you can have something to compare it to.
1. What is your gender?
ResponsePercent
ResponseCount
Female
66.3%
556
Male
33.5%
281
Other
0.2%
2
answered question
839
skipped question
0
Women are definitely better represented in the blogopshere than they were last time, but men still are more likely to blog in proportion to their representation in the general population of librarians.
2. What is your age?
ResponsePercent
ResponseCount
Under [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Index of Results
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007I’m going to start publishing results from the survey in drips and drabs over the next few weeks hopefully, but this page will be the index to the results and will link to them as they come in:
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and [...]
Do we need a translator here?
Thursday, August 30th, 2007I’m starting to feel like I’m witnessing the blogospheric version of the Tower of Babel story. There are a lot of people talking about Library 2.0 and I think there is also a lot of misunderstanding about what anyone is really saying. Bad girl that I am, I actually really enjoyed the Annoyed Librarian’s take [...]
Interesting facts from the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere 2007
Saturday, August 25th, 2007Between my headache issues and a crazy speaking/writing/teaching schedule, it is unlikely that I will be able to publish a comprehensive list of results for the 2007 Survey of the Bibilioblogosphere for a while. However, to whet your appetite, I thought I’d post some interested facts that I learned from the survey.
1. 839 people filled [...]
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere Update
Saturday, August 11th, 2007When I put the survey out, I hoped to get more responses than last time. Two years ago, I got somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 responses. I’ve been amazed to watch the number of responses grow and grow each day for the past two weeks. Right now, 750 people have filled out the survey; [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere
Sunday, July 29th, 2007In August of 2005, I conducted a survey of people in the library and information science profession who blog to get some sense of the demographic characteristics of bibliobloggers. The results of the first Survey of the Biblioblogosphere can be found here.
After two years, it doesn’t take a survey to see that the library blogosphere [...]
