Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

Even after some discussion at dinner on Thursday night (June 24) and on the Yahoo! Group list about whether blog group will continue, there still seems to be some confusion.

Blog group will continue.

Because of a conflict with a Berkman Center event on Thursday, July 1, we will not be able to meet in that space. Instead, we are planning a fun, informal cookout at Sandy Beach on Mystic Lake in Winchester. Details will appear on this blog later.

During the weekend of July 3rd and 4th, there will be a blogger-style dim sum outing. There’s a debate over whether to have it on Saturday or Sunday, but it will most likely be, as before, at 11 am at Chau Chow City in Chinatown.

On July 4th, j has invited wayward bloggers to stop by her blanket on the Cambridge-side of the Charles River during the festivities, concert, and fireworks.

On July 8th, we will meet at the Berkman Center as usual. At this meeting, we will focus on plans for the coming year and the future of the group.

I gave two presentations to the staff of Harvard Business School’s Baker Library on Friday, June 25, about blogging. If anyone’s interested in reading the presentation or more about how it went, I posted notes on j’s scratchpad (directly linked above).

I spent some time talking about blogging at Harvard and the resources available to bloggers at Harvard. A few of the audience members might come to future blog group meetings.

Three things happened that I think are worth talking about at a future meeting. Some people didn’t realize there was a blog server at Harvard available to them. Some also thought they couldn’t register for blogging space with their e-mail accounts since Harvard Business School e-mail addresses don’t end with harvard.edu. (Perhaps rewording the text on the Create a new weblog page could end that confusion.) These thoughts indicate to me that we should figure out how to do some marketing around Harvard. Also, there was a discussion about the rules for blogging, whether there are any guidelines for or restrictions on what people blogging on Harvard’s server can and cannot post, and whether the administration censors blogs.

Presentation to Harvard Business School Librarians about Blogging …