{"id":65,"date":"2005-06-02T20:12:01","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T00:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/060105-meeting-notes\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T00:12:01","slug":"060105-meeting-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/060105-meeting-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"06\/01\/05 Meeting Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a337'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These notes are a best effort.<\/p>\n<p>Blog your corrections and commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>j: j\n<li>WK: Wendy Koslow\n<li>EY: Elaine Yuan\n<li>AH: Ann House\n<li>guyingreen: JP: Joshua Porter\n<li>EG: Erica George\n<li>DF: Deborah Elizabeth Finn\n<li>IM: Ingo Muschenetz\n<\/ul>\n<p>Agenda:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WK: We&#8217;re not going by the original agenda &#8211; Michael can&#8217;t make it so we&#8217;ll have to reschedule the Why Do You Blog \/ Blogging 101 film show topic.\n<li>Well wishes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezoons.com\/\">Gregory<\/a>: He&#8217;s doing well, is home, and actually blogging some about non-lung-related stuff! Cheers for Gregory! Keep up the well-wishes though.\n<li>j wants to talk about the blog course she&#8217;s teaching on Sunday\n<ul>\n<li>j: teaching librarians on Sunday about blogging. Mixed group in terms of tech experience, from little to very. On Blogware platform. Also showing Blogger, Manila, Frassle. Any ideas for things I absolutely must not neglect to tell them?\n<li>AH: Interesting to me is the amount of hesitation people have aboput how to get started\n<li>WK: I&#8217;d cover linking, linking policies, conventions about how people credit each other. Librarians know archiving but may not know blog culture.\n<li>DF: Librarians are about increasing access to information. Focus on how they can kleep learning more. As a blogger I try to think about how someone approaching my page wanting to find something will see it.\n<li>guyingreen: tone of posts &#8211; some blogs are very inviting, others less so, more authoritative stance. I tend to write authoritatively without meaning to when I&#8217;d rather invite conversation &#8211; is a struggle for me &amp; prob. for others.\n<li>j: Easy to fall into trap of seeming too authoritative. PPl assume you agree w\/ everything you link to. Librarians have lots of authority in terms of information anyway.\n<li>guyingreen: conversation is key\n<li>DF: Almost 2 blogospheres. 1, content: blogging as a cultural thing, tone, etc. 2, technology: all you&#8217;re doing at heart is posting to a website in reverse chronological order. Nothing inherent about a blog that it has to be a rich personal voice. It&#8217;s easier to set up a blog than a regular website. You can blog about a lot of very impersonal things on a blog format, and that&#8217;s OK. It can be a format for distributing news.\n<li>IM: No matter how you write the post, ppl are natually predisposed to flame you.\n<li>WK: Maybe tell people it&#8217;s OK to be flamed, don&#8217;t sweat it. People can be hesitant to put themselves out there, esp. when it&#8217;s in a professional capacity.\n<li>guyingreen: often feedback is brief, curt etc., but not intended negatively.\n<li>IM: Blog comments tend not to couch things in niceties\n<li>AH: figure out who your reader is, so it&#8217;s not just a broadcast with no target.\n<li>WK: What do you already have?\n<li>j: it&#8217;s a 4 hour course. First segment is my spiel on what&#8217;s a weblog, what&#8217;s a feed. Then someone talking about orgs using blogs and feeds. Then 2 hours for ppl to learn about blogging. Relying on ppl having laptops, sharing them. So having everyone do a blog post will take time with shared machines. The 2 hours will go by fast.\n<li>DF: Some aspects of Blogware nonintuitive, may want to explain\n<li>WK: Hey, Joey takes feedback&#8230;\n<li>j: I just use HTML rather than the WYSIWYG\n<\/ul>\n<li>What else?\n<ul>\n<li>Tangent 1: Introductions! Yay!\n<li>Tangent 2: DF: <a href=\"http:\/\/greaterboston.tv\/features\/gb_20040617_monkeys.html\">Monkey college<\/a>! (training assistants for quadriplegics) And they also need some IT help if anyone can volunteer. Totally fantastic organization doing wonderful things. Monkey! (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtopnews.com\/index.php?nid=88&amp;sid=205933\">another article!<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Eat:\n<ul>\n<li>Yay, small group! We can go anywhere! We choose&#8230;. John Harvard&#8217;s on Dunster St in the square.\n<li>Where last week?\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These notes are a best effort. Blog your corrections and commentary. 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