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It’s easy to blog, so more should do it.

Friday, 15 Feb 2013, 19:34

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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Monday, 18 Nov 2013, 11:20

low-threshold creation of entries
a flexible and personally meaningful way to organise and maintain them
opportunities to retrieve, reuse and analyse blog content
opportunities to engage with others.
fitted in while working on something else
providing a way to keep abreast of others ideas
capturing ones’ own emergent insights
clarifying matters for a public
over time ideas on a topic accumulate and connections between them become clearer.
feedback from readers turns blogging into a sense-making practice
eventually an ideas is ‘ripe’ and ready to become part of a specific task.

Efimova (2008. p. 208)

But how many do it? Ask around in your tutor group. I doubt the figure gets above 5% unless it is compulsary and then I doubt that more than 50% post more than three times during the course of module - a minimum requirement.

REFERENCE

Efimova, L. (2009) Passion at work: blogging practices of knowledge workers. Novay PhD
Research Series 2009 (www.novay.nl.dissertations)

Tags: knowledge workers, mmb, efimova, blog, blogging, feedback, novay

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