Thank Goodness for the Diet Coke!

Phew! Thanks for the great tip of grabbing a Diet Coke before beginning lesson #2 of Project Play so I was good and caffinated as I read through all of the links. Similar to another Project Play participant Pinky, I am not completely new to blogging. I have a rarely updated personal blog and I am a participant in an internal library staff blog; however, reading the article Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library's Services has got me thinking about if and when my library might want to begin an external library blog. After reading David Lee King's article about the Library 2.0 Ripples, I would place my library at about a 3.5-4. That tells me that my library might be ready sooner than later to take the public blog challenge. I'm looking forward to discussing ideas about our target audience and blog content with other Project Play-ers and staff at my library. I can really see potential in a blog for the young adult crowd - promoting library programs, services, and the SLP. Madison Public Library's Teen Topix blog is a great inspiration and I learned a lot from blogging this summer at the SCLS Teen Read Blog.

Now, I think I might just be ready for a second Diet Coke.