Personal Blogs

• 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)