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This page is used to collect some notes regarding blogging in the MPDL context after the plenum hold on 7th of December. In September 2007, Cornelius Puschmann provided a very comprehensive overview on "institutional blogging" to MPDL staff. The slides and some further comments are available in Cornelius' blog[1].
WebBlog versus Wiki[edit]
Web blogs....
- support one-way communication of fixed information packages. After posting, a blog article shouldn't be changed any further.
- often allow commenting of postings.[2]
- are sorted by date (last comes first) and often allow commenting of postings
- are comparable to mailing lists and news groups
Wikis...
- support collaborative creating and editing of information. After its first creation, a wiki article is expected to be edited mercilessly by a group of persons
- are organized in a structured way (see CoLab ;)
- are comparable to web sites and word documents in "change mode"
Blogs and Wikis can very nicely work hand in hand, e.g. integrate related news via rss feeds to the wiki start page - or submit a blog posting if you request comments for a wiki page...
Possible addressees[edit]
- MPDL internal -> not required? use mpdl-internal mailinglist instead. The archive is available via....
- MPG internal -> not required? use mpg-internal mailing lists like minerva-liest or mpg-info?
- World Wide Distribution -> to announce official MPDL news or individual viewpoints of team members
Examples...[edit]
are out there everywhere, e.g.
- BioMed Central established a blog for posting announcements, see http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/
- DabbleDB Project blog, see http://blog.dabbledb.com/ for a typical blog accompanying an evolving web application.
- Living Reviews project blogs, see http://blog.livingreviews.org/ for an example of a seemingly external blog hosted on the MPDL blog server; this example highlights another functionality of blogs: they can be used to syndicate content. The overview over the latest Living Reviews publications is generated from the rss feed of the journal's blogs on the fly.
- OCLC collected a list of individual blogs from selected team members, see http://www.oclc.org/community/talk/blogs/default.htm. They evn call them the "OCLC's official blogs" ;)
- Stabi Hamurg blog, see http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/blog. The blog is quite prominently referenced from the Stabi homepage, but allows quite informal postings of team members (e.g. Hinter den Kulissen: Frühsport im Lesesaal). Sometimes the commenting option helps clarifying questions (e.g. http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/blog/?p=709) - and sometimes it is used for harsh critique (e.g. http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/blog/?p=656).
References[edit]
- ↑ http://corpblawg.ynada.com/2007/09/07/talk-on-institutional-blogging-at-the-max-planck-digital-library
- ↑ Note: By nature, comments to official blog postings are often quite negative - as they channel possible user frustrations. This needs to be considered with starting a blog