When Cars Run on Information, creators, contributors and 2007 iSchool MLIS grads Tim King and Kathleen Walsh post on “innovation, community and libraries.”
Jessamyn West
www.library.net/
putting the rarin' back in librarian since 1999
http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/Library Thing
www.librarything.com/
http://seattle.metblogs.com/
From the site: "Written from the perspective of people who live, work, and play here every day..."
Lifehacker
http://www.lifehacker.com/
'don't live to geek; geek to live'
WebJunction
http://blog.webjunctionworks.org/
Many 2 Many
http://many.corante.com/
group blog on social software
Librarian Revolution
The Library Status Quo Must Go!
http://libraryrevolution.com/
The Library Status Quo Must Go!
http://libraryrevolution.com/
From Ms. Card: I was just reading over this word-of-mouth marketing web site that is all about the consumer, but is also all about ethics and using technology to involve people. The case studies are particularly applicable to libraries/LIS. Here is the link to the case studies, but the whole web site is pretty interesting, and I think applicable to info pros:
http://www.womma.org/casestudy
I found the above site because of this post by Michael Stephens in his blog:
http://tametheweb.com/2007/03
One of the blogs Stephens mentions is the "church of the consumer" and the name sucked me in. I think this blog is also really relevant for librarians because libraries suck at marketing themselves and creating advocates. I think this is because a lot of people already really love the library and so libraries are complacent.
Something I have been using everyday lately is WorldCat/OCLC beta:
http://worldcat.org/
Thanks to Kathleen Walsh, Kara Fox and Heather Card (all three 2007 iSchool MLIS grads--congrats!) for the smart suggestions and commentary. --The Ed.
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