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What is blogging?

LeFever, Lee. 2008. Blogs in plain English [Online]. Available at: http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs [Accessed: 25 January 2011].

Types of blog

adapted from Wikipedia. 2011. Blog [Online]. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog [Accessed 25 January 2011].

personal

organisational

genremedia

reflection; communication; archiving

informational; marketing

politics; travel; educationlinks; videos, photos

Why blog?

http://tinyurl.com/CR12-WhyBlog

Why blog?

use as a notebook 1

record thoughts on events 2

alternative focus (with a writing element)

crowdsource

knowledge transfer

links to articles

collect feedback

generate discussion

collaborate

enhance reputation

outreach

reduce feelings of isolation

increase sense of belonging

blog as online ‘base camp’

direct people to blog to save producing documents 2

momentum to explore other technologies

explores the process of research work

critical appraisal

follow events

reflect share network collate learn

1. Richer, Suzi. 2009. Blogging your way to completion… [Online]. Available at: http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1271-194421/Blogging-your-way-to-completion.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].2. Weller, M. 2007. The ed technie: is blogging a good use of time? [Online]. Available at: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/04/is_blogging_a_g.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].

Why blog?

MacLeod, Hugh. 2011. I have nothing to say [Online]. Available at: http://gapingvoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/zzzzzz7654191a.jpeg

[Accessed: 16 February 2012].

Academic blogs

Searching blogs

Which blogging platform?

Which blogging platform?

Which blogging platform?

Which blogging platform?

Blogging well

know WHY you’re bloggingknow your constraintsknow your audienceengage and connectblog regularly

Avoiding blogging pitfalls

respect plagiarism and copyrightdo not tolerate abusedevelop your writing style

think like a journalist, not an academic eliminate redundancy use links

What is microblogging?

exchanging small elements of content, whether words, images or videos..

conversation...

people write short messages

people read the messages

people reply to the messages

blog compactly and socially

share text, quotes, links, images, videos and audio

Why tweet?

Why tweet?

Academic tweeting

#CR12

#DR12Vitae

#PhDChat

#TwitJC

Tracking tweets

Tracking tweets

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