Blogging at ACRL

I am an official ACRL Conference blogger. Oddly enough, that means you can't read my official ACRL Conference blog posts without paying for either the actual or virtual conference. Jane at A Wandering Eyre posted her concerns. I share those and offer this one as well: ACRL doesn't get the mindset of bloggers if they want to hide us behind a firewall.

One of my primary motivations for blogging is to share my thoughts with my audience. My dear readers, you who trudged through four long-winded posts from the one-day Technology Expo, are more likely to appreciate my experiences at ACRL than anyone else. So, I'm going to have to find some other motivation for posting at the ACRL blog--attracting new dear readers, perhaps, by linking to my real blog at every opportunity? And, of course, I'll find a way to blog here, too.

The secondary motivation for participating in this project is to get to put "official ACRL Conference blogger" on my resume, which is too cool to pass up even if I am disappointed in the implementation.

Another reminder that we are still early in this conference blogging phenomenon. From Computers in Libraries 2005, we learned that there are one or two problems with designating Core Bloggers. From ACRL 2005, I hope we'll learn that blogging behind a firewall is like a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear. It happened, but can we call it sound?     #

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