Weblog Collaboration Blog

I presented a 30-minute discussion of weblogs and their use as business collaboration and communication tools to my LI 841 class this Sunday. During our "play time" in the computer lab, I got a charge out of seeing how many students created a Blogger weblog for themselves. At the beginning of the presentation, I showed how to set up a weblog using Blogger and begin posting within 5 minutes, using a refractory marketing team as an example.

I enjoyed the other presentations as well, particularly Chad Jira's on Cascading Style Sheets and Ginger Shields's on RSS and syndication. I'm sorry I missed Tobin's on setting up a weblog on your own web server using open-source tools (nasty thing about needing to work Saturday morning), but I hope to get an image disk to play with later.

For those who don't know, I am a student at Emporia State University's School of Library and Information Management in Emporia, Kansas. The class for which I generated this blog, LI 841, is titled "Advanced Retrieval & Repackaging for Business & Industry." I will graduate with an MLS in May, 2005, as well as an Information Management Certificate for studies about information management in non-academic (and potentially non-library) environments. I would recommend this program to anyone interested in becoming an information professional or corporate librarian.