Presentation at Developing Academic Writing Among Librarians Seminar, NUI Maynooth Library, January 27th 2014

1. Developing
Irish
Online
Publishing
Through
Blogging
#dawal2014
Michelle Dalton / Liaison Librarian, UCD
e michelle.dalton@ucd.ie w www.michelledalton.ie t @mishdalton

2. “conversational
scholarship”
(melissa gregg, 2006)

3. november 2011
300+ posts
30+ contributors
libfocus
1500+ followers
open editorial
policy
new voices

4. the same but different
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snowflake_trivets.jpg

5. discussing
collaborating
sharing
reflecting
creating
blogging
publishing
thinking
writing
learning
informing

6. no author guidelines
no word counts
no conventions
no restrictions
no formatting

7. freedom
is not free.

8. “one of the
most difficult
things is the
first
paragraph…”
gabriel garcía márquez
Source: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7075/7137490527_d69de1060a_o.jpg

9. low pressure

10. on an average web page
(593 words) users only
stay long enough to read
up to 28%
writing
for the web is
different
Source: Harald Weinreich et al. (2008) “Not Quite the Average: An Empirical Study of Web Use,” ACM Transactions on the Web, vol. 2, no. 1 (Feb)

11. writing for yourself
versus
writing for an audience

12. a space to make
mistakes

13. develop
“Most people give up on doing something
new after one or two tries, but normally, six
iterations of making something is enough to
get you 90% of the way to understanding
what it is, and how you want to make it.”
Matt Locke, test.org.uk
clarity

14. personality
can make a good blog
great

15. try
it
on
for
size
first

16. thank you
Michelle Dalton / Liaison Librarian, UCD
e michelle.dalton@ucd.ie w www.michelledalton.ie t @mishdalton