Comments on: “Does Not Blog Well With Others” http://cogdogblog.com/2005/11/15/does-not-blog-well-with-others/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Lee http://cogdogblog.com/2005/11/15/does-not-blog-well-with-others/comment-page-1/#comment-2429 Dave Lee Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:29:02 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1185#comment-2429 Hey Alan: Great post. Despite reading that it's likely we've lost you on Learning Circuits Blog, I can totally understand and agree with your struggle both from a workload standpoint and team blogs not feeling as empowering. My take away from your post, and Graham's comment, is that for a team blog to work there has to be a feeling of being a part of a team, an <i>esprit de corp</i>. Otherwise you're just another random poster in a disconnected dialogue. Thanks for your insights over the past 6 months, Alan. You may not have felt a part of a team, but you did have positive impact. Dave Blogmiester Learning Circuits Blog Hey Alan: Great post. Despite reading that it’s likely we’ve lost you on Learning Circuits Blog, I can totally understand and agree with your struggle both from a workload standpoint and team blogs not feeling as empowering.

My take away from your post, and Graham’s comment, is that for a team blog to work there has to be a feeling of being a part of a team, an esprit de corp. Otherwise you’re just another random poster in a disconnected dialogue.

Thanks for your insights over the past 6 months, Alan. You may not have felt a part of a team, but you did have positive impact.

Dave
Blogmiester
Learning Circuits Blog

]]> By: Cheryl Colan http://cogdogblog.com/2005/11/15/does-not-blog-well-with-others/comment-page-1/#comment-2328 Cheryl Colan Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:20:17 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1185#comment-2328 I don't understand why they don't just use RSS? You could write in your own space, but your group could have a special category tag used for posts that related to the online community. Combined with RSS, appropriate posts would be syndicated into the community space and therefore viewable on your blog AND in the community space. Posts not specially tagged would only appear in your own blog. (Or wherever your blog is syndicated, of course, like my own RSS reader). Surely this is a no-brainer? They're just using you to get hits to their site? I don’t understand why they don’t just use RSS? You could write in your own space, but your group could have a special category tag used for posts that related to the online community. Combined with RSS, appropriate posts would be syndicated into the community space and therefore viewable on your blog AND in the community space. Posts not specially tagged would only appear in your own blog. (Or wherever your blog is syndicated, of course, like my own RSS reader). Surely this is a no-brainer?

They’re just using you to get hits to their site?

]]> By: Aaron http://cogdogblog.com/2005/11/15/does-not-blog-well-with-others/comment-page-1/#comment-2305 Aaron Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:01:01 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1185#comment-2305 Trackback: http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2005/11/15/blogging-personal-vs-group/trackback/ Trackback: http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2005/11/15/blogging-personal-vs-group/trackback/

]]> By: Teacher in Development :: Blogging: Personal vs. Group :: November :: 2005 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/11/15/does-not-blog-well-with-others/comment-page-1/#comment-2304 Teacher in Development :: Blogging: Personal vs. Group :: November :: 2005 Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:53:18 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1185#comment-2304 [...] I then followed the link that sparked Farmer’s post off, Alan Levine’s “Does Not Blog Well With Others” post. Aside from the great title and intro, this post really is a thinker, and raises some great points that I know I want to consider more. If I were a student in Blog School, the parental note they send home from my blog teachers might bear the comment, “Alan writes a lot, but he does not blog well with others”. [...] [...] I then followed the link that sparked Farmer’s post off, Alan Levine’s “Does Not Blog Well With Others” post. Aside from the great title and intro, this post really is a thinker, and raises some great points that I know I want to consider more. If I were a student in Blog School, the parental note they send home from my blog teachers might bear the comment, “Alan writes a lot, but he does not blog well with others”. [...]

]]> By: Graham Wegner http://cogdogblog.com/2005/11/15/does-not-blog-well-with-others/comment-page-1/#comment-2302 Graham Wegner Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:36:07 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1185#comment-2302 Alan, I post at two blogs - my own <a href="http://www.gwegner.edublogs.org" rel="nofollow">Teaching Generation Z</a> and one set up for my colleagues here at my school as we work through an IWB program. I am tending to agree with you because the team blog <a href="http://activboarding.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">ActivBoarding</a> which I post to regularly as a way of "trying" to encourage my fellow staff members is dominated by my content but is fairly shallow compared to what I explore on my own piece of webspace. It has been mistaken by other bloggers as being one of "my" blogs but actually I wanted ActivBoarding to be everyone putting in their own bits and pieces on a regular basis so you only had to look in one spot to see what was going on in our school. But the fact that they are not means they don't have the ownership you're talking about to be committed or even bothered to do so. And I will always "save" my most pressing / important posts for my own blog so you could argue, my commitment to the team thing is a bit superficial as well. Yet a part of me still wants to keep it going! Very though provoking. Alan, I post at two blogs – my own Teaching Generation Z
and one set up for my colleagues here at my school as we work through an IWB program. I am tending to agree with you because the team blog ActivBoarding which I post to regularly as a way of “trying” to encourage my fellow staff members is dominated by my content but is fairly shallow compared to what I explore on my own piece of webspace. It has been mistaken by other bloggers as being one of “my” blogs but actually I wanted ActivBoarding to be everyone putting in their own bits and pieces on a regular basis so you only had to look in one spot to see what was going on in our school. But the fact that they are not means they don’t have the ownership you’re talking about to be committed or even bothered to do so. And I will always “save” my most pressing / important posts for my own blog so you could argue, my commitment to the team thing is a bit superficial as well. Yet a part of me still wants to keep it going! Very though provoking.

]]> By: James http://cogdogblog.com/2005/11/15/does-not-blog-well-with-others/comment-page-1/#comment-2301 James Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:29:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1185#comment-2301 Manual - sigh - trackback http://incsub.org/blog/2005/you-blog-alone-thats-the-point Manual – sigh – trackback

http://incsub.org/blog/2005/you-blog-alone-thats-the-point

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://cogdogblog.com/2005/11/15/does-not-blog-well-with-others/comment-page-1/#comment-2296 D'Arcy Norman Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:14:01 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1185#comment-2296 have to completely agree here. I bowed out of ADCE as well, figuring I spend my blog energies on my own place, and blogging elsewhere is just a distraction for me. have to completely agree here. I bowed out of ADCE as well, figuring I spend my blog energies on my own place, and blogging elsewhere is just a distraction for me.

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