"I certainly never write a review about a book I don't think worth reviewing, a flat-out bad book, unless it's an enormously fashionable bad book." --
says, John Gardner in Conversations with John Gardner
Quoted from 'Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations'     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p.150. Available @ Amazon.com
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Showing posts with label Communication. Show all posts

Friday, May 18, 2012

Reading now: Technology Training in Libraries

Technology Training in Libraries (Tech Set #6) by Sarah Houghton-Jan, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2010.

What do the reviewers say:
This should prove an essential resource for librarians responsible for implementing training and employee development programs. [Houghton-Jan is a 2009 LJ Mover & Shaker.]" --Library Journal, June 2010
"Houghton-Jan…offers a guide to help all types of libraries implement low-cost, comprehensive, and effective programs for staff to learn new technology skills." --SciTech Book News, June 2010



Extract:
Your library plays a crucial role as your community's epicenter for technology whether you provide skill building resources, free access to the Web or both. To deliver top service to your Web-savvy users, you and your staff must stay up-to-date with the latest technology skills and trends. This invaluable new guide in The Tech Set® series from renowned consultant, speaker, and technology instructor Sarah Houghton-Jan presents practical, start-to-finish guidance so you can easily and successfully implement a low-cost, comprehensive, and effective staff technology training program in your library. Houghton-Jan outlines various types of technology training programs and helps you determine which one is right for your library. You'll learn how to create a list of important technology skills to include in training, how to integrate popular technology training tools into your program, and best practices for dealing with common problems like working with different learning styles, dealing with difficult learners, and finding a suitable location. There are tips for marketing your program to supporters and skeptics alike, as well as guidelines for evaluating its success. Whether you're an experienced technology instructor or a first-time trainer, this new 'Tech Set' title will help you develop thriving, easy-to-implement, and budget-friendly technology training programs in your library.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Quiz: Are You Fluent in Work Lingo?

This quiz has many frames-of-reference, both for the geeks and the lay, alike. One instance is the word Offline, included in this quiz.
The word, Offline, as the quiz suggests includes four answers:
a. When you’re disconnected from the Internet
b. The project or outcome is important to the function of the business
c. To discuss a topic one-on-one or after a meeting
d. Working from home
While the correct answer is a, one may think out-side-the-box, as well. See the line between offline, online, and near-online, near-offline, etc., here

See on the same shelf:
  • Track How Effective Your Online Marketing Efforts are Offline

    Back to the:
    Quiz: Are You Fluent in Work Lingo?
    Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer
  • Sunday, December 21, 2008

    How would you rate this situation that lets web visitors decide layoff

    PS. As an independent market researcher and not paid by any to do so, I would highly appreciate your opinion on this technique:



    In news today:
    Ad agency lets web visitors decide layoff
    Dec 21, 2008 04:30 AM

    Susan Pigg LIVING REPORTER @ The Toronto Star
    "A Brussels advertising agency has come up with a novel, new-age solution to the economic downturn – a social layoff site of sorts where you can help decide, with a click, which of its eight employees should be laid off come January.
    "Take your courage in one hand and your mouse in the other," says the ironically named company, So Nice, which has created a website that's the online equivalent of The Apprentice – minus the limo rides and the rich rewards." continue reading

    See also what comments are @ The Toronto Star +++ Snopes.com

    NB. Thanks to BPWebNews for the polldady's lead


    Monday, April 28, 2008

    Being Muslim (Groundwork Guide Series)


    This book is not an idiot or a dummy series. It is, hence, different altogether in content, context, and communication that helps understand the people, minds, concepts, and percepts. Being Muslim, in short, is interesting, thought provoking and educating. See a few extracts, reviews, etc.:

    Quotes I like from this book:
    >> "He who wrongs a Jew or a Christian will have me as his accuser on the Day of Judgment." Prophet Muhammad, -- a.k.a., Hadith (page 27)
    >> "Donot consider me better than Moses" Prophet Muhammad, -- a.k.a., Hadith (p. 34)
    >> "I am closest of all people to Jesus, son of Mary." Prophet Muhammad, -- a.k.a., Hadith (p. 34)
    >> "Extremists are also being reminded that the wrath of God constitutes a minuscule part of the Qur'an" (author, p. 147)
    >> "Nowadays, jihad is often used without any religious connotation, more or less equivalent to the English word, cusade -- a crusade against drugs..." (Rudolph Peters, p. 127)
    >> "The most used word in the Qu'ran, after Allah, is ilm (knowledge)" (author, p. 147).
    >> "Not all the Saudi restrictions are Islamic. The taboo against women drivers, for example, is not haram (forbidden), but it is not permitted, in deference to tradition." (author, p. 99).

    From the Publisher:
    Since 9/11, the world has been confronted with the most volatile facets of Islam with little explanation of how or why these controversial elements developed. Written by one of North America's most honored journalists, Being Muslim presents an up-front and clear explanation of this complex and emotion-laden subject.

    From School Library Journal:
    The author's tone is conversational and engaging, and frequent breaks in the text make this small book very readable.—Sondra VanderPloeg, Tracy Memorial Library, New London, NH Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

    From Booklist
    Without preaching or political jargon and drawing on his travels and interviews in Muslim countries, he shows that the extremists are being challenged by a new generation of Muslims, and welcomes the current internal reformation.

    By Deva Kautilya "Too Many Books Too Little Time!" (Cleveland, OH)
    I heard the interview of the author on NPR while driving to the airport from a client site! I could not wait to get this book from the library.

    By Naazish YarKhan
    A must read.

    By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) -
    If it's an easy overview of key issues, topics and social and political concerns you need to serve as an introduction to Muslim concerns, you can't go wrong with BEING MUSLIM, based on travels in Muslim lands and interviews with experts there and in the West.

    Saturday, February 16, 2008

    Why Google only tells you what you already know by Farhad Manjoo

    From the Inside Flap: "In True Enough, Manjoo presents findings from psychology, sociology, political science, and economics to show how new technologies are prompting the cultural ascendancy of belief over fact."

    * John Wiley; Due: March 14, 2008; ISBN-13: 9780470050101; 256pp.

    Table of Contents:

    Chapter One: "Reality" Is Splitting.
    Chapter Two: The New Tribalism: Swift Boats And The Power Of Choosing.
    Chapter Three: Trusting Your Senses: Selective Perception and 9/11.
    Chapter Four: Questionable Expertise: The Stolen Election And The Men Who Push It.
    Chapter Five: The Twilight of Objectivity, or What's the Matter with Lou Dobbs?
    Chapter Six: "Truthiness" Everywhere.
    Epilogue: Living In a World without Trust.


    An extract from Farhad Manjoo's Blog @ Salon.com:
    "True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society" is a book near and dear to my heart. That's because, wouldn't you know, it's my book! I wrote it, and will be discussing it here a bit in advance of its publication in March.

    The book examines a question that's long captivated me, a child of the Internet: Is digital technology advancing truth in the world, or is it distorting it?

    By truth, I mean what we call sets of observable, objective, empirical "facts." You might argue -- and many do -- that wide access to information has the capacity to create a more knowledgeable, more tolerant, more rational society. [source: Tech News Review]

    NB. I am waiting for the book release. An,d this is nothing to do with a similar blog: http://theytellusnothing.blogspot.com

    Monday, October 01, 2007

    What book would you most want your kids to read?

    PS. This is not my comment. Thanks to Prof. Norma Bruce Faculty Emeritus, Ohio State University Libraries, for her creative visualizations.
    Here's a really odd response, showing great narrowness of mind and ignorance of what's on the shelves of bookstores and libraries, from an Ohio State University Professor of English, Kathy Fagan:
      "I would be glad for my kids to read anything. Except maybe books by Anne Coulter." onCampus, Sept. 20, 2007, p. 16
    See? Didn't I tell you about banned books starting in the selection process? I wonder what sort of grades she gives to conservatives. A sample of her poetry

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    Tuesday, September 18, 2007

    36 Blog Rules to Keep You in Business


    If ou are a corporate blogger or interested in what works in blogsphere, you have Nancy Flynn's excellent book that tells you have far, how much and how deep should you go, and more so what are the boundaries that you should be aware. [Info courtesy: Microsoft Momentum, June 2007: 7]

    BLOG RULES: A Business Guide to Managing Policy, Public Relations, and Legal Issues by Nancy Flynn (AMACOM Books, 2006)
    Here are some rules to keep you and your business in business and out of court.
    Blog Rule #1: The blog is an electronic communications powerhouse.
    Blog Rule #2: Business blogs are not necessary or appropriate for every organization.
    Blog Rule #3: Savvy business owners and executives must learn how to strategically and successfully manage the blogosphere today.
    Blog Rule #4: It’s the casual, conversational, anything-goes nature of the blog that makes it both so appealing to blog writers and readers.
    Blog Rule #5: An organization without an external blog program may risk losing position, market share, reputation, and sales to tech-savvy competitors.
    Blog Rule #6: The strategic management of blogs or any other electronic business communications tool begins with the establishment of written rules and policies governing usage and content.
    Blog Rule #7: A business blog opens the organization up to potential disasters.
    Blog Rule #8: Management, technology, and the legal system have not yet caught up with the potential benefits and risks of business blogging.
    Blog Rule #9: Strategic blog management begins with the establishment of a clear objective.
    Blog Rule #10: Don’t allow IT (or legal, records management, or human resources) to dictate your business blog program.
    Blog Rule #11: Require employees to sign a confidentiality agreement to protect trade secrets and confidential data belonging to the organization, employees, customers, business partners, and other third parties.
    Blog Rule #12: Use discipline to maximize employee compliance with blog rules, policies, and procedures. continue reading Blog Rule # 13 - 36

    From The Critics
    Business Times (New Haven, CT):
    Blog Rules is the one guide readers need to help ensure that their organizations are helped and not hindered by this revolutionary tool.
    Niche Magazine:
    Since the rules about business relationships and blogs can be hazy, Nancy Flynn has written an essential guide..
    Library Journal:
    Flynn's book... is more strictly for CEOs fearful of blogging. [continue reading these critical notes at bn.com]

    Table of Contents (sample, see full list at bn.com)
    Ch. 1 Why blog rules? 3
    Ch. 2 Blogs pose unprecedented risks to business 13
    Ch. 3 Start with a clear objective : why blog? 20
    Ch. 4 Proceed with caution : self-assessment for would-be business bloggers 26
    Ch. 5 Treat blog posts as business records 39

    Saturday, August 18, 2007

    Amazing Pace: Turbo-Charged Business Development


    NB. The following is not about a book with a similar title, Amazing pace : the story of Olympic champion Michael Phelps from Sydney to Athens to Beijing, by Paul McMullen.

    Here we are sailing in a different pace and in a different style, called busienss development. Amazing Pace: Turbo-Charged Business Development
    Dr. Earl R. Smith II, ISBN: 1424186277, 183 pages.

    Following is a description of the book:
    I’ve never met a CEO who was really happy with the way business development was working. They all end up saying the same thing. “Traditional solutions fail to produce expected results while regularly generating unexpected costs. There needs to be a better way.”

    Amazing Pace shows you how to turbo-charge business development. Over decades of experience as a CEO, board member and senior advisor, I have developed a unique approach to turbo-charging business development. It involves: 1) a board of advisors, which is populated by very senior people who are dedicated to driving the top line; 2) a different approach to resourcing and organizing a company’s senior management team; and 3) an approach that focuses on building revenue in large chunks.

    This book will show you how it’s done. It will also help you avoid the pitfalls and leverage the strengths of your company. Read on—this really works!


    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    The Conundrum that is Business Development
    Chapter 1: Five Reasons Why Business Development Is So Difficult To Get Right
    Chapter 2: Seven Reasons Why Advisory Boards Don’t Produce
    Chapter 3: Battle at the Cottage Gate
    Chapter 4: Dysfunctional Advisory Boards – A Family of Problems
    Chapter 5: Advisory Boards as Business Development Engines – The Beginnings
    Advisory Boards
    Chapter 1: Turbocharged Business Development
    Chapter 2: Benefits and Costs
    Chapter 3: John’s Questions – Round Two
    Chapter 4: Change Management
    Planning for Two Journeys
    Chapter 1: Change Management
    Chapter 2: Board Design and Population
    A Working Board
    Chapter 1: The First Board Meeting
    Chapter 2: Conflict, Renegotiation and Removal
    Chapter 3: First Blood
    On Leadership
    Chapter 1: Leadership That Empowers – The Fire of the Mind
    Chapter 2: Leadership that Limits - The ‘Completeness Doctrine’
    Chapter 3: A Balanced Senior Management Team
    Managing Mt. Rushmore
    Retrospective
    Chapter 1: Anniversary
    Chapter 2: Assessing the Impact
    Final Thoughts
    Contact Information


    Like this book? Send an Electronic Postcard Now!

    Shelf Location:
    Business > Industry
    Economics > Business and Industry
    Finance > Business and Industry
    Business > Management

    Wednesday, July 25, 2007

    How Doctors Think by Jerome E. Groopman

    Info courtesy: Ricklibrarian and a suggestion: "Groopman's book is already very popular. Every library should have it."



    From Publishers Weekly
    Starred Review. SignatureReviewed by Perri Klass:
    Every reflective doctor will learn from this book—and every prospective patient will find thoughtful advice for communicating successfully in the medical setting and getting better care.Many of the physicians Dr. Groopman writes about are visionaries and heroes; their diagnostic and therapeutic triumphs are astounding. And these are the doctors who are, like the author, willing to anatomize their own serious errors.


    See also:
  • Information Seeking Behavior of the Believers
  • Information Seeking Behavior - Quote of the day
  • Words of Wisdom from Technology Guru Bill Thompson
  • Saturday, July 21, 2007

    Harry Potter book pages found online


    Kevin Griffin, CanWest News Service
    Published: Monday, July 16, 2007
    A 33-year-old Vancouverite has downloaded what appears to be about 60 per cent of the seventh and final Harry Potter book — even though the children’s novel isn’t supposed to be officially released until midnight Saturday. continue reading

    See also:
  • Read the review of the new "Potter" movie
  • Much more @ Google's

  • Saturday, July 14, 2007

    Interfaith Minister's Manual


    About the bookThis book is a labor of love. When I was ordained as an interfaith minister, I looked for a minister's manual which would have ceremonies and prayers appropriate for people who had been raised with a particular religious background but who now did not want to be affiliated with any religious organization. Initially the only purpose for doing this was for my own ministry but there is an obvious need for a single manual in which the major religions (Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Yogi, and Native Medicine people) are represented. This book is my effort and has been very well received. It is now in its fourth edition [source: Yahoo! shopping see also: Angela Plum's home page]
    What do others say:
    Other Christian traditions are ignored. The complete lack of anything from the Anglican/Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, for example, seems a glaring omission.

    Non-Christian traditions comprise perhaps 10-15% of the book. There are brief descriptions of some Jewish, Buddhist, and Islamic holy days, two paragraphs from an Aztec baptism, the traditional Jewish prayers for the dead, a description of Kwanzaa, and two Native American prayers. That's about it, except for some very brief references in the definitions section.

    If you're looking for a fusion of New Age and Catholic Christianity, this might be the book for you. Otherwise, look elsewhere. I was truly disappointed that this book did not live up to its "Interfaith" title or the positive reviews given by others. source: Andrew Shults (Chicago, IL USA)

  • Much more on Interfaith Dialog
  • A section of my book for an article on interfaith dialogue:
    So much of visual literary genre, so little time to categorize it
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2007

    Great minds like a think: “Hey, vertical and horizontal! You ‘da mensch!”

    Googling for vertical and horizontal worship (religious / spiritual practices) I came across the following comment by a Rabbi and in a broader discussion on if “Abraham” and “Brahman” might be etymologically related:
    "... the first five commandments have to do with man’s relationship to God, while the second five govern man’s relationship to man. quoted and posted by SC&A @ Sigmund, Carl and Alfred

    see also:
  • SPIRITUAL GEOGRAPHY: The Horizontal and Vertical Communities of our Dual Citizenship
  • Vertical and tacit: Multifaith and Knowledge Management in Perspective
  • Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
  • Basic duties of the Muslim… by Muzzamil Siddiqi [with reference to relationship with God and and people-to-people]
  • Saturday, July 07, 2007

    Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means

    by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks,
    Linked: Networks from Biology to the World Wide Web
    Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, professor, physics, Notre Dame @ WGBH Forum Network




    Best comment @ Amazon:
    Cotton Candy--Lots of Air, Some Sugar, No Bibliography, June 3, 2002
    By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States)
    "I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it is coherent, thoughtful, and tells a story about the emerging science of networks that anyone, who can read, can understand. This is a non-trivial accomplishment, so 4 stars.
    However, the book is also--being brilliantly designed to be understood by the lowest common denominator, an undergraduate--somewhat shallow and empty.... especially when compared with Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science", 1197 pages not counting the index, which is at the other extreme.
    Although there are good notes, there is no bibliography, and the author fails to use network methodology to illustrate and document the emerging literature on networks--called citation analysis, this would have been a superb appendix to the book that would have taken it up a notch in utility."

    From Publishers Weekly
    "Information, disease, knowledge and just about everything else is disseminated through a complex series of networks made up of interconnected hubs, argues University of Notre Dame physics professor Barabasi. These networks are replicated in every facet of human life: "There is a path between any two neurons in our brain, between any two companies in the world, between any two chemicals in our body. Nothing is excluded from this highly interconnected web of life." In accessible prose, Barabasi guides readers through the mathematical foundation of these networks. He shows how they operate on the Power Law, the notion that "a few large events carry most of the action." The Web, for example, is "dominated by a few very highly connected nodes, or hubs... such as Yahoo! or Amazon.com." Barabasi notes that "the fittest node will inevitably grow to become the biggest hub."

    see also:
  • Business : Your Network - What type is it?
    by Ellis Pratt (Technical Authors) on 16-Jul-05 10:39pm
  • Monday, July 02, 2007

    If You Build It . . .Ontario's Electronic Toll Highway


    [PS. This review is not from my desktop]
    "If you build It . . ." charts the history of Ontario’s Highway 407, the world’s most technologically advanced toll highway, from its development as a toll road in the early 1990s, through construction and operation by a crown corporation, to its subsequent privatization in 1999 by means of a 99-year lease and its performance thereafter..." continue reading


    See also:
  • A review at InterGovWorld Blogs
  • HARD LESSONS ON SELLING A PUBLIC HIGHWAY @ The Social Edge
    About the Authors: Chandran Mylvaganam & Sandford Borins
    To contact the authors: Chandran Mylvaganam: chandran@chartermi.net & Sandford Borins: borins@utsc.utoronto.ca.
  • Saturday, May 26, 2007

    Can Internet run your life? Re-Mind

    "Don’t take it personally, Mark Lawson says, "A speech by the chief executive of Google raised the possibility that websites will soon know enough about users to suggest which job to apply for or where to go the following day...

    "But (this is) based on the assumption that the user would take the advice. How many of us refuse on principle to buy any book recommended by an online retail site…?" continue reading

    See related posts from my blogs:
  • Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values
  • Google to Digitize 8,00,000 Books at Mysore University
  • Add Sense to your AdSense: Visualizing the Return on Investment?
  • Wheels for Google, Google on Wheels
  • Google Trend - Another Way to Visualize the Blogosphere
  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007

    Unputdownable

    P.S This is not a review from my desktop. This review is courtesy: Filipina Librarian in the Land Down Under. As far as I see, this is about a new book and how a librarian is reading between the shelf.

    Out Front with Stephen Abram: A Guide for Information Leaders, by Judith A. Siess and Jonathan Lorig, ALA Editions.

    "This is what I can say of Stephen Abram's book Out Front with Stephen Abram: A Guide for Information Leaders (Chicago : ALA, 2007). I have just finished cataloging the book and intended to read it later but when I started reading the first article I just couldn't stop. (Frankly, for the first time I actually hoped I would miss my train on my way home home so I can read more but I arrived a couple of minutes early at the train station. However, I made use of the train ride and was able to finish the book in time for me to get off the train.)" continue reading the comments



    Previous posts from my blog:
  • Leadership Basics for Librarians and Information Professionals
  • SLA Leadership Summit 2007
  • Tuesday, March 13, 2007

    Blooker prize honours best blogs

    PS. This is not from my desktop [Info Courtesy: Thadakamalla Sujatha Rao @ Auckland City Libraries]


    BBC News, 13 March 2007, 15:06 GMT
    The short-list for a literary prize aimed at honouring the best books based on blogs has been announced.
    Among the 15 short-listed "blooks" is one which claims to have invented a new genre of fiction.
    Last year's winning blook - Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously - has now sold over 100,000 copies and is being made into a film.
    The prize aims to encourage cutting-edge literature, more of which is beginning life in the blogosphere.
    "Blooks are the latest landmark in the history of books," said Bob Young of Lulu, the self-publishing website which sponsors the prize.

    ...
    Well-known blogs that have become books include The Devil Wears Prada and Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call-Girl.

    Continue reading

    Wednesday, March 07, 2007

    Health Information and Libraries Journal 24:1 (March 2007)

    P.S. This is not a review, and not from my desk.

    The latest edition of the Health Information and Libraries Journal 24:1 (March 2007) is now available. It has some interesting papers including:

    The emerging Web2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education
    Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Steve Wheeler
    Effectiveness of information skills training and mediated searching: qualitative results from the EMPIRIC project
    Alison Brettle, Claire Hulme, Paula Ormandy


    continue reading @ Informaticopia

    Friday, March 02, 2007

    Reviewing a blog - benchmarks?

    What is important in a blog's review?
    Is it layout, design, format, context, content, or what else?

    A techie would say, a blog is nothing but a Website. So, the review of a blog, is just like reviewing a website.
    But then the techie may have a second thought, and might say 'wait a minute.' A Website most of the time constitutes distinct components, such as, (a) Web pages, (b) client based or server based content, and c) most important it is a showcase for a business. Whereas, a blog is, by and large, is not a site to host, store, and be-all or end-all in Web architecture. Some may be specific purpose blogs, but general use of the term blog is more with an immediate goal (see e.g., How To Build A Blog Empire).
    Aha, then a blog is in this sense a window, and the Website is most of the time the main door, if not the main house for a business.
    So, what makes a review of a blog different. Let's leave this for another post.
    Here, let us look at how bloggers review a blog. For instance, @ Blog About Your Blog, the description of a blog includes: Layout, Content, Suggestions. A quick glance at these details gives a better picture:

    Layout
    Great header at the top, as the tagline says “the perfect blend of good and evil”. The template is a darker theme, but it works. Simple but decent. No ad placement or huge banners to take away from the content. You do see a somewhat large picture of the author, I might make it a tad smaller.

    Content
    What I like everytime I visit this blog is the number of comments, it’s ridiculous. 39 on some, 42 on another, heres 53! It’s obviously a personal blog so there should be a few more comments than other blogs, but that’s still really good. She must have a nice broad readership. It gives the blog other story to read basically. First the article, then the comments.

    Suggestions
    With a blog as big as this one, she should make it easier to find certain posts or topics. Categories or a search bar would definitely help that. Read the complete review


    Another sample Blog Review: by Zaib Kaleem
    This time around my review is for NotSoBoringLife.com. First comment..great domain name…I’m surprised it wasn’t taken already. As always, I navigated to the “About Me” page first to learn more about Nathan Metzger. Right off the bat, Nathan has me interested in learning more about how to lead “a not-so-boring life”. Like him, I’m married with two kids and sometimes things get a little less than exciting. I’m always looking to shake things up…..”shark wrestling” sounds a little extreme for my angling skills but I’m definitely overdue for a game of paintball. Read the complete review

    My own two cents in reviewing a blog (and my own blog, with malice towards none):
    Details of my blog: Multifaith Information Gateway
    Content: general coverage of faithwise information. Meant to promote religious tolerance in a multicultural and multifaith society.
    Strength is in its unique contribution: This blog founded the first ever Multifaith Hall of Fame This Hall has received 14 comments from visitors.
    Weakness: The blog on the whole is too general. Hence, lacks focus and depth.
    User comments (general): very few.
    http://multifaith.blogspot.com/2006/06/multifaith-hall-of-fame-of-21st.html: May 2006; total visitors todate, Bravenet counter is 3729.
    Indexed (cited) in:
    Faithcommons.org
    FoundationforPluralism.com
    Spirit And Sky Definitive Spiritual Directory
    Successful Blog: SOB A-Z Directory
    All Things Spiritual Directory
    LS Blogs Directory
    Technorati
    Del.ici.ous

    P.S. The question then remains, what makes a blog, and what are the components that are a) essential and b) that are recommended?

    NB. This question is not so simple, or simply about description of what are the itmes in a blog that are usable / useful (see such a catalog) or list of contents that make a blog. Furthermore, neither this is a question about functionality of a blog; nor about diffrent types of blogs; see similar views; and much more; and also CRITIQUE MY BLOG!


    Any comments?



    Related posts from my desktop:
  • The real secret to a successful blog/book/business...
  • Citing a Blog, Wiki - Style for bibliographic notes and references Blog As A Teaching Tool
  • Add a little more random to your product
  • A Visible Pathfinder for Increasing Blog Traffic
  • Visualizing Comments on Blogs
  • 25 Basic Styles of Blogging
  • Thursday, February 22, 2007

    The real secret to a successful blog/book/business...


    PS. This is not from my desktop
    "For the last three years, Bert and I have tried to explain the "secret" to the success of the Head First books. We've tried to explain the "secret" to how a little non-news, non-scandal blog could land in the Technorati Top 100. We've tried to explain the "secret" to why Javaranch is one of the largest, most active, and well-loved developer communities on the internet. One big clue: we're not that talented. There is a secret, yet, but it's mostly a if-WE-can-do-it-ANYONE-can-do-it thing."

  • Success no longer has to be a meritocracy (or advertocracy), today it's just as much a loveocracy. Full article