Good day!
Welcome to our new blog, which you may have reached from our newly launched website! If you have surfed in, welcome, as well! This blog replaces LakeNet Effect, which has been retired.
The new name, South Central Station, is indicative of the role it is expected to play in the social networking life of our organization. Just like with a train station or an airline terminal, the links will transport you to other destinations. Train stations and terminals often provide an information board, exhibitions, places to browse or a chance to talk to your fellow travelers, and this station also offers those things, as well.
So....find a cup of tea or grab a latte and read on!
LakeNet Effect taught me a few things about blogging. Blogging is very time-consuming and challenging to build into a daily, weekly, or even monthly workflow. This time, it has been set up to enable all of us at SCRLC to contribute!
I also was cognizant that just because we can blog doesn't mean that we should blog! I wondered why we wanted a blog when we have a website, a mailing list, a FaceBook page, and even a Twitter presence. We are a staff of six and are already stretched. Wouldn't those other components suffice to faciliate communication? Here is why I think a blog is important, and an analogy (warning: pretty bad one!). We love flourishing communities that offer many options for services, cultural orgs, and transportation choices. A blog affords the community of library workers another option for getting information, interacting, or sailing off to other destinations. A blog bestows upon SCRLC one more opportunity to get the word out about events and services. Multiple presences lead to spontaneous conversations, and you, for example, are here reading this, and can post a comment about it!
What are your thoughts on how/where blogging fits into the grand scheme of "web presence," social networking, and websites?
Cheers,
Mary-Carol Lindbloom
Executive Director
SCRLC
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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