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The Reader Questions Series: What Professional Association Members Want to Know About Blogging
By Michele Martin | November 12, 2007
Last week, Christine and I facilitated a session with Rob Pusch on The Art and Practice of Blogging at the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) conference. During our workshop, we fielded a lot of questions about blogging basics and how blogs can be used in the professional realm. There were many issues we didn’t have time to address, so over the next few weeks we plan to post some answers These will really benefit anyone who’s interested in exploring how to use blogs in a professional setting.
Some of the questions our participants had included:
- Why should I blog?
- How do I store/organize materials?
- How do I use a blog with a class, particularly integrating it into something like Blackboard?
- How does a blog fit in with other tools, like email lists, our own website, Second Life, wikis, etc.?
- How do you find a “point of focus” for your blog?
- Is this a good way for me to go about reaching international students?
- Will my university be upset that I am skipping/leaving them out?
- How do I balance having my blog serve as an open forum with being sensitive to/careful about participants, customers, etc.?
- Do I need to moderate my blog?
- Should it be “dangerous” for institutions?
- A blog looks like a web page–is it?
- Why do people like to read blogs? I know I’d like to write one, but I’m not that into reading other people’s blogs as much, so why would they want to read mine?
- How do I find the time to maintain a blog?
A lot of great questions here, as well as good fodder for discussion. Please feel free to add to the list and/or to let us know how you’d answer these.
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