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January 23, 2003
Blog Ideas
Many of the people I associate with are starting their own blogs. We are starting to look for other places to use blogs, and find different ways to make them effective. I've talked about other blogs that have been started recently at UEN.
Phil Windley suggested that we create a blog aggregator, a "Best of UEN Blogs" blog that would highlight the blogging activity going on at UEN. This would be a great addition to the blogging effort, and a motivation to get more people to get involved in "quality" blogging. I'm researching RSS aggregation software that would do this.
Other blogging ideas that have been suggested:
- Create a T-forum Weblog to share information between UEN stakeholders -- an extension of the regional, super-regional and state-wide T-forums that are held monthly, quarterly and annually
- Create a Tech Summit Weblog for information sharing regarding the up-coming UEN Tech Summit in May
- Install a Weblog server for use by all UEN employees (blog.uen.org), to make it easy and inexpensive for anyone to start and maintain a Weblog -- MovableType would work great for this
- Use RSS channels and news aggregation to allow stakeholders to easily sort through immense amounts of information (network management, etc) to get the relevant information they need from UEN -- an extension of the NOC Blog and other future UEN blogs
- Conduct building-wide Weblogging training to enable and encourage UEN employees to start their own Weblogs and contribute to the collaborative Best of UEN Blog
- Include Weblog training at the May Tech-Summit to show UEN stakeholders how to use Weblogs for personal publishing as well as collaborative group information-sharing
More ideas will be generated as we experiment with blogging in new situations and find where it is beneficial.
Posted by pete at January 23, 2003 10:41 PM