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DCPLive: Navigating Library Blog Success - From Inception to Promotion

Explore the journey of DCPLive, DeKalb Library's blog, from its creation to current strategies for writing, maintaining, and promoting. Learn about the system development, handling writer's block, and effective promotion techniques.

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DCPLive: Navigating Library Blog Success - From Inception to Promotion

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  1. DCPLive One library’s experience organizing, writing, maintaining and promoting its blog http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org http://www.dekalblibrary.org Jimmy Lo: loh@dekalblibrary.org Nolan Reynolds: reynoldsn@dekalblibrary.org

  2. Overview • How we started • Developing a system • Writer’s block • Getting the word out • How are we doing?

  3. From the Roots… • Before the blog • New Librarians’ ideas • “Why do we need a blog?” • Test phase

  4. We Need a System! • Who posts on what days? • A rotating moderator • Proof-reading process • Dealing with comments

  5. Writer’s Block! • Sharing ideas on RefRap • Does every post have to be about the library?

  6. Getting the Word Out • Internal promotion • External promotion • Bookmarks • Script on the homepage

  7. How Are We Doing? • Gauging traffic • Comments from patrons

  8. Thank You!!! http://dcplive.dekalblibrary.org/ http://www.dekalblibrary.org/ Jimmy Lo: loh@dekalblibrary.org Nolan Reynolds: reynoldsn@dekalblibrary.org

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