i’m a member of the medical library association’s (mla) social networking software task force, which i mentioned a while back. we’re teaching an 8-week, self-paced, online-only course to members of mla, focusing on the different social networking tools out there. i’m co-teaching two of the weeks but i also registered to take the course. i haven’t used all of the tools we’ll be discussing and it seemed like a fun idea to set time aside for myself to explore them.
week one focuses on blogs and rss, which i’m well familiar with for my own use. we’re still young in the use of a blog at my library but i am pleased that we are promoting our resources with this tool. one of the things i’ve always said about libraries is that they don’t promote themselves effectively. staying current with and using the available, mostly free technologies is a step in the right direction.
