Monday, December 12, 2005

Blog or email?

OK, so which is preferable? A blog or communication via email?

I think email is the way to go for internal communcation, using the library staff group to get everyone. The blog is useful for public communication-- something the PR coordinator could use. It would be linked to the disaster response site.

What do you think? Use the comment button below.

2 comments:

Shawn said...

Looking at what happened after Katrina, I have become aware that some libraries lost email servers and had to gather staff member's alternate email addressess -- aol,sprint, hotmail and the like. This may be something to add to our contacts list.

Shawn said...

Blogger is part of Google ( I think) so it's hosted "out there" I think there are lots of dormant or defunct blogs. ALERTnews could be like that-- we could post occasionally just to keep it from getting rusty ;-)

The alternative may be the bulletin board that Bob created for library staff, which, I think does the same thing as what we are doing now -- internal communication