authority

This week is the first where I actually feel on familiar territory as I have had some experience with wikis in the past. One MLIS project included building a web page for an imaginary library that included a wiki. However, it has been a while since that course, so I found Amanda's 'try it out' wiki page a very useful refresher. Because I have had experience with the technical whys and hows of wikis, I think I will jump right to the articles that discuss the implications and myriad uses of wikis in the library/knowledge/information management world.

From the readings and case studies this week I think that some good guidelines for blogs are:

• Have a clear purpose and audience, and let this guide what gets posted

• Make entries of a consistent (and brief) length

• Provide an “about me” section

• Provide an “about this blog” section

• Use a reasonable number of categories, with sensible headings

• Edit!

What I have noticed during this first week’s reading is a little bit of what has been on my mind regarding authority and social software in general.