Blogs in my work

I don't work in a formal library so this could be either easier or harder. I work long distance with two groups of librarians in two separate positions. The good part of a blog for us would be leaving information for each other because we are in different time zones. Naturally, we leave emails, but we all get so much that it may not be seen in a timely fashion. It's also difficult to go back and locate exactly which email had that nugget of information you need.

My local job is with a human rights organization where we have tried to get university students and community people to hold online conversations on issues such as climate change, child labor, and more. If we had a blog, it might make it easier for all of them to communicate. There would not be the demographic barriers that sometimes exist now.

I've used RSS for a while through Google Reader and like that a lot. I did not know how to link to a journal's table of contents which has been quite useful. Pubmed might also be useful but I've not received anything after signing up for that. Maybe I did not do something right, or used a topic not frequently updated. It's through my RSS link to the Web 2.0 blog that I've most often been able to see what is next for the class. Sometimes the emails don't seem to come through about that.