Each registered user for this web site can now submit news articles to be included on this site! Just click on the 'User Articles' menu choice (at the top of the page) to see the collective posts of all users of the system. You may use this capability to post your own PALNI-related articles that everyone will then be able to read, and comment on, via these pages.

To submit your own article to the system, just click on the 'create content' link to the left, and then select the "Personal Blog" menu choice--this is actually implementing using the "blogging" subsystem of the underlying software. Note that you can also post attachments to your article postings. This could be an excellent way to share information of all types, including screen captures, documents of all types (e.g., 'pdf', MS-Word, spreadsheets), software, and other formats that do not fit well in a simple text format.

We've never tried a collective news "blog" before as a way for all of us, Project Staff, Systems Librarians, and librry to staff, to keep each other informed about what is happening in our respective areas. I wonder how much this capability will be used? It has a lot of potential as a way to keep everyone up-to-date about what is happening day-to-day across PALNI, but it will only be effictive if we all actually use it.

For example, Project Staff are involved in tweaking and adjusting Aleph on a daily basis, in response to on-going system implementation work, system problems, and other factors. If staff "blog" what their doing on a regular basis, eveyone will have a way to stay informed about what's going on with the system.

Similarly, if Systems Librarians and SSTD/Target Team members "blog" what they are working on, everyone could stay up-to-date about developments on that front. But of course, it does take some extra time and effort just to create blog entries. I guess we'll soon see how well this group blogging experiment goes.