Notes from NTC blog session
NTC 2005
Presenters: Marnie Webb, John Kenyon
These notes are from the opening of the session in which participants were asked:
What are you here to find
out about blogs and RSS?
- How they work/
how they are being used
- How to get
started – vendors, etc.
- What they look
like
- Blogging as a
movement, sector
- Building
membership/advocacy/political action
- RSS for
non-technical people; how to get people on the bandwagon
- Possibilities
- Newsreaders,
narrowing focus
- Community
building
- Providing blog
services, recommending services to clients
- Keeping blog momentum
going
Blog characteristics
- Easily Published
- Authenticity,
Personal Voice, multiple authors
- Spontaneous –
not edited/ editorially processed
- Informal
- Frequent
- Links – currency
of weblogs
- Viral
characteristics
- Authors
ownership
- Comments and Archives
- Easy to read
RSS/webfeeds
- Blogs= speaking;
RSS= listening
-
Notification
System, provides:
- headline
- summary
- full text
- Republishing
- Easy to add to
blog (check a box)
- Blogs more
mature than RSS
- Subset of XML