Interested in blogging?
Over the past few months, there has been mounting interest in the topic of blogging. Blogs are potentially a very useful tool to add to our communications methods - a great way of spreading news and interesting items, promoting discussion, sharing information, building communities of practice.
We have got two initiatives under way at present. The first is a simple, wide-open public blog called NOSMeLD - you can find it here:
On there you can also find an explanation for the name, and some general stuff about blogging. Check it out.
We are also presently testing a blog engine that can be more tightly integrated into our current NOSM discussion boards and forums. Initial testing has shown this to be stable and secure - it ties in well to our current sign-in/authentication for NormedNet. It is not quite ready for prime time.
For blogs to be successful, there are a number of things that need to be in place. Firstly, a small but committed and enthusiastic number of contributors. Then, a clear focus but with enough breadth of material to appeal to possible readers.
I have contacted you because I know or have heard that you may be interested in getting to know more about blogs and in helping to get one going. The first question, apart from whether you are actually interested, is how people would like to discuss the use of blogs and find out more about them. We could call a meeting...or we could use the blog itself to discuss this issue - for those of you who have never blogged before, it is real easy to start off.
To prevent our blog from being spammed, you do need to register with BlogSpot in order to post a Comment on this or any of the other posts in this blog. This is easy to do and there is no cost to this. The name and password that you use for this BlogSpot registration can be anything that BlogSpot will accept. It does not have to be (and probably should not be) the same login and password that you use for NormedNet.
So let me know how you think we should discuss this...either by posting comments in the blog itself...or by emailing me direct if you have a problem with posting to the blog.
David
posted by David Topps @ 9:22 AM
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2 Comments:
I've already got a membership in Blogspot... tentatively experimenting with the medium...
Not many comments so far. This would suggest to me that using the blog by itself as the point of discussion is not sufficient.
One of the downsides of the blog is that the articles tend to scroll so that gives a short half-life to the articles and the resulting discussion.
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