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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Audience focused blogging in libraries

How about blogging for a client audience? Well I as with any service the more it is tailored to the needs of the consumer the more successful it will be. Looking at the ACT Public Library Blog show how the use of the tags in a blog allows visitors to select which blog posts suit them the most. However you have the whole library blogger community reading the posts and comments of all the various categories of users and the list of categories becomes very long and disconcerting.

Teen blogs I guess are the most obvious audience focused blogs to make as young people are among the heaviest technology users. Look at Wired 4 Teens @ Mosman Library- nice and clear ad clean yet funky. There are quite a few categories of posts but not too many to be useful.

I suppose there is scope to determine which categories of users are interested in a service tailored to their needs - it could be a ScFi Book blog for example for ScFi updates generally and in the library. It is kind of like a Alert Service via blogs. Ummm could be interesting.

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