With blogs on every conceivable topic, countless online forums and major “how-to” websites, we now have great ways to share free tutorials that can teach people practically anything. Technology-related information is especially helpful: with a simple Google search you can learn how to use any software program, learn about mobile reading or how to start […]
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How to Organize Your Blog for Better Navigation
For any website, your goal is to have visitors stick around and engage, not just scan the home page and leave. Navigation is not so difficult for a basic five page website, but when you have a blog with five posts published every single week, it’s much more difficult to guide readers to some of […]
Metadata: Uniting Baseball Fans and Librarians
Metadata is fundamental to the organization of all types of information: attributes such as title, creator and topic help us identify different works as well as locate and access them through information retrieval tools such as a search engine or library catalog. Although it’s commonly boiled down to a simple definition of “data about data,” […]
An Introduction to Books, Bytes and Blogs
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been passionate about collections of all sorts—books, coins, sports cards—and as I grew older, I worked hard to keep my digital music collection organized and find the most effective ways to keep up to date with my favorite websites. In my junior year of college, I started to […]
Why I’m Waiting to Start My Blog
As I’ve become active on Twitter and participated in Blogchat these past few weeks, people have naturally asked me what I blog about. Great question! I guess I should think about that… What I mean to say is, I’m holding off on starting a personal blog for a little while, and this past Sunday’s chat […]