{"id":521,"date":"2006-12-06T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T22:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/12\/06\/introducing-womblink-sadly-having-nothing-to-do-with-wombats\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T18:15:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T23:15:52","slug":"introducing-womblink-sadly-having-nothing-to-do-with-wombats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/06\/introducing-womblink-sadly-having-nothing-to-do-with-wombats\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing WOMBLINK (sadly, having nothing to do with wombats)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I will second <a href=\"http:\/\/librarymarketing.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/cool-new-tool-from-rss4lib-womblink.html\">Jill Stover&#8217;s nomination<\/a> of Ken Varnum for the title of &#8220;great guy&#8221;. In response to some comments on his blog regarding library marketing, Ken created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rss4lib.com\/womblink\/\">WOMBLINK<\/a>, a way for libraries to easily spread the word about their services (and for bloggers to easily spread the word for them).<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rss4lib.com\/2006\/12\/introducing_womblink.html\">Ken&#8217;s blog, RSS4Lib<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>So what is it? A WOMBLINK is two lines of HTML that, when included on a web page, display the words &#8220;Blog This&#8221;. 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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a great way to make it <em>so<\/em> easy for people to blog about your library&#8217;s services and programs! Nice work, Ken!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another reason that Ken is great: he&#8217;s a fellow fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wombats\">wombats<\/a>. I&#8217;ve had a weird fascination with them ever since I had to do a report on wombats in fourth grade. There&#8217;s just something about &#8217;em!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I will second Jill Stover&#8217;s nomination of Ken Varnum for the title of &#8220;great guy&#8221;. In response to some comments on his blog regarding library marketing, Ken created&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}