New Blog for APLY Staff Communication

After the meeting this morning, I think it occurred to all of us that we don't really have a consistent system for communicating with each other here at APLY. Because we are such a small staff, I don't think it has been a problem, but now would probably be a good time to set something up. So let's try this blog.

I've never done this, so this will probably be an ongoing experiment for a while. I hope that we can all post our thoughts on how to use this blog effectively or whether we should use it at all. At this point, I think the primary goal is to make everyone comfortable with using it as a knowledge-sharing tool on a regular basis. After we are all familiar with posting and reading regularly, we can hopefully iron out the details of format, content, etc.

Although I sent an invitation to each of our 'work emails' that I pulled from the list, I quickly realized that you need an existing gmail account to log in. So scrap the idea of 4 separate email/author accounts, discard the invitation to your email, and for now let's just stick with the default North Albany account.


My ideas for making this blog useful:

1. Log into the blog on circ1 computer every day as part of the opening procedure.
2. Throughout day, post any information relevant to branch operations: news, library incidents, displays, policies, questions, new ideas, programming, etc.
3. Create separate, new post for each new topic. So we will likely have several new posts per day.
4. Use the comments to contribute to the discussion brought up in the post.
5. Make an effort to read and comment on all of the new posts and comments.

There are only four of us, so I think this can be pretty manageable. But in order for this to work, we would all have to read and contribute with regularity. What does everybody think? Do you guys want to try this? Ideas?