* The Software Itself
+ Web Based or Server Based
Read Descriptions of Various Weblog Software Packages

* Well-Known Software Suppliers
+ Server-Based (Server Based Software)
+ Radio
+ Movable Type
+ Greymatter

+ Hosted Services
+ Blogger (Purchased by Google A Few Months Ago, Started 1999 in S.F.)
+ Type Pad (Coming Soon)

What Can You Do with the Software (A Few Ideas)

+ Let Your Voice Be Heard

+ Share Info "Inside" The Organization (Company, Library, etc)

+ Newsletter "What's Happening" (For Customers, Patrons)
Produced in Seconds

++“One of the good things about a small business is the personal touch it provides. As a customer, you know who is in charge, and you establish a personal relationship with that person. Blogs help you extend that relationship.”
-Dan Bricklin, Trellix Software
Darwin Magazine (Aug. 28, 2002)

+ Digest News from Your Community

+ Easy to Maintain Annotated Links for Classes
Students Can Offer Feedback

+ Easily Publish Search Strategies for Use By Patrons (Frequently Requested Searches)
"Cannned Searches"
Change/Update in Seconds

+ Staff Can Quickly Share Sites, Tips, Problems “Inside the Library”

+ Knowledge Weblogs (K-Logs)
"David Gurteen, a London-based knowledge management consultant, says blogs can have the same effects, both constructive and destructive, as e-mail or instant messaging. For instance, blogs are a better medium than e-mail, Gurteen says, to get some ideas on the drawing board and solicit feedback and, from a KM perspective, establish a record of who is working on what, and when."
- Darwin Magazine (Aug. 28, 2002)
++ Comments/Links About KLog Development in an Organization

+ Audio Blogs
Your voice is heard, literally.

A Small Sample of Weblogs from the Library Community
+ LISNews.Com
++ Published by Blake Carver

+ FOS (Free Online Scholarship Weblog)
++ Published by Peter Suber

+ Search Engine Showdown
++ Home to Greg Notess's New Weblog

+ Library Stuff
++ Published by Steven Cohen

+ The Shifted Librarian
++ Published by Jenny Levine

+ Librarian.net
++ Published by Jessamyn West

+ Iaslash
++ Info Architecture Blog

++Louis Rosenfeld.Com
Info Architecture/All Things Lou

+ Many, Many More Exist!
++ Check Peter Scott's Directory of Library and Info Related Weblogs

Searching Weblogs
+ Most General Engines Cover Some Weblog Content

+ Daypop is a Well-Known Engine Devoted to Weblogs and News
++ Volunteer Effort of One Person in California, Dan Chan
++ Dan Also Uses Data from the Crawl to Produce Several Interesting Lists

Also, of Interest:
Blogdex from MIT Media Lab
A Diffusion' Index

The Promo Factor
* IF your goal is to get others to visit your blog, you must PROMOTE it.

++ Offering "New" Content is an Important, If you Want People Coming Back
++I use Many Tools including Web-Site Watcher

RSS (Rich Site Summary)
+ Based on XML
+ Very Popular in the Weblog Community
+ Syndicate Content to Other Sites
+ View Headlines in a Single Location (An RSS Newsreader)
+ Directory of RSS 'Feeds'
+ Learn More