Sharing

=Blogs=

A blog is a website maintained by one or more people who publish brief postings that appear in reverse chronological order. Readers are often able to leave comments on the individual posts.

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 * Blog-building tools**

[|Edublogs] Blogging for teachers and students [|21Classes] David Warlick's [|Class Blogmeister] [|Blogger] [|Wordpress]


 * Examples of library blogs**

[|Blogging Libraries Wiki] A lovely list of libraries that blog. A Listing of Blogs from Illinois School Libraries [|Paris High School Library], Paris, Illinois [|Northfield Mount Hermon School Library], Mount Hermon, Massachusetts [|Gargoyles Loose in the Library], University Laboratory High School Library, Urbana, Illinois

=Microblogging=

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Microblogging enables users to send and read others' brief updates (generally no more than 140 text characters) within a circle of chosen contacts.


 * Microblogging tools**

[|Twitter] [|Tumblr]


 * Libraries that use microblogging**

[|Urbana Free Library] on Twitter [|Undergraduate Library] at Illinois on Twitter [|Twitter4Teachers / Librarians] - a wiki with a list of links of school librarians using Twitter