The World of Book Blogs — Virtual Handout

If all goes as planned, I’m giving a presentation today at the Missouri Library Association Conference called “The World of Book Blogs.” Any handout I would design for this would consist of a list of websites. So, I’m saving the paper and increasing the convenience by creating a virtual handout with active links to the websites.

Examples of Challenges

A good source for finding challenges and other events is A Novel Challenge.

Examples of Events

Memes

Find more events and memes at BBAW’s Book Blogging Events.

Edited to add: in the comments, Alex pointed me to another great resource site for finding regular events in the book blogging world, A Social Blogger’s Guide to the Book Blogosphere at Sniffly Kitty’s Mostly Books.

Gathering Places

Book Blogs (ning)
Twitter and Harper Books’ list of Book Bloggers. I’m not on it, but otherwise it seems fairly complete :-). Here’s mine: @joyweesemoll.
Book Blog Search Engine

Blogs We Like

Updated October 8, 2011.

We had two book bloggers in the room. Here are their blogs:

Here are the blogs and other sites we threw out at the end of the talk, sites where we like to read about books. Thanks to Lucy Lockley for taking notes. Let me know if we missed any.

I’m working on a small project to make a page with a list of Missouri Book Bloggers — and who knows what wonderful things we might do when we’re gathered together in that way. So if you have a book blog or start one, please let me know.

Edited, March 1, 2012. For some reason, this post draws spam comments. I’m closing the comments for now, but if you wish to make a comment, send me email and I’ll open them up for you.

Comments

The World of Book Blogs — Virtual Handout — 6 Comments

bermudaonion (Kathy) on October 6, 2011 at 7:07 am said:

Good luck to you! I’m very flattered that you included Wondrous Words Wednesday in your list!
Alex Baugh on October 6, 2011 at 7:45 am said:

Good luck. You know, Sniffly Kitty’s Mostly Books has a page called a social blogger’s guide to the Book Blogosphere that gives all kinds of interesting information and links for blogging. The link is http://snifflykitty.blogspot.com/2010/09/social-blogging-info.html
Since you are doing your handout virtually, I thought maybe you could update it viturally as you needed later on for your audience.
- Joy Weese Moll on October 6, 2011 at 9:20 am said:
  
  Thanks Alex! I saw this in time to add it to my talk. I’ll add to the list when I’m back at my computer.
Erin on October 8, 2011 at 8:41 pm said:

What a great idea, Joy! This will be a great reference to update easily, too.
Dawn - She Is Too Fond of Books on October 9, 2011 at 8:03 pm said:

A great virtual handout! It seems the presentation was a success, fun that you had book bloggers in the audience.
Christa on October 10, 2011 at 1:03 pm said:

Great talk at mla Joy! Thanks for the link and the mention. We would LOVE a blogger team next year @ http://mobookchallenge.blogspot.com/