Resources for the Wednesday session

Since I'll be tutoring museum kakis about Blogs, I might use this page to try things out. Certainly Ecto.
What I need?

• LCD projector, or a seminar room with one.
• My MacBook Pro.
• My old blog presentation for MR members.
• Aggregator feed with their blog RSS'.

What do they need?

• A Gmail account - for Blogger, GMail functions
• A Yahoo account - for Flickr principally
• Technorati account
• Del.icio.us account.
• A blog (Blogger) account with three types of posts, with images and links.
• A laptop if they have one (think Jada does)

Starting a blog (in prep):

1. Who is your audience?
2. Choosing an interface.
3. Choosing a title.
4. About and contact.
5. Not anonymous.
6. Types of posts - original, posting for someone, referencing other online sources.
7. Styles - personal, academic, news.
8. Comments and writing about comments.
9. Citation 101 and Creative Commons.
10. When to write off-topic.
11. Being found - announcements, RSS, claiming your space.
12. Blog peripherals (bells and whistles), including an offline blogging client.
13. Being known - before, during (community) and after; locally and elsewhere (Yesterday.sg; MuseumBlogs.org), non-community (Tomorrow; see earlier "Being found"); highlight (web and email), participate, invite, encourage.
14. Monitoring.
15. Maintenance (slow and steady!), variety and regularity.

Issues (list in prep):

• Read this - What museum audiences want.
• State of the Museum Blogosphere.
• Points from the old Museum Roundtable webpage: being found, being relevant.
• About Web 2.0 - but in three minutes!