Blogging from the Backroom

A CIG Occasional Seminar

13:30	Registration
14:00	Welcome Anne Welsh, Drugscope
14:05	Marketing and Profile-raising through blogging How blogging can raise the profile of you and your organisation Christine Goodair, St. George’s Medical School, University of London Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]
14.35	How acquisitions, cataloguing & subject librarianship are good blog-fodder How traditional backroom activities like cataloguing, acquisitions and subject librarianship provide an ideal skill set and good subject matter for blogs Anne Welsh, Drugscope Presentation: [URL]
15.05	Is blogging good for your professional health? How managers in the NHS are using social software and the potential for management blogging Helen Nicol, NHS Connecting for Health Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]
15:35	Tea
15.55	From the backroom to the frontline and back again How the Home Office is using blogs and RSS feeds for current awareness Rachel Robbins & Karen George, Home Office Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]
16:25	Building bridges: improving patient care with social software How the National Library for Health uses blogs, RSS and wikis to disseminate information, communicate, collaborate and innovate, to help improve the library and knowledge management services Caroline De Brún, National Library for Health Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]
16.55	Closing remarks Anne Welsh, Drugscope
17:00	Finish

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