"A weblog is a webpage where a weblogger 'logs' all the other webpages she finds interesting"
We blog
Peter Merholz (1999)
“ I've decided to pronounce the word ‘weblog’ as wee'– blog. Or "blog" for short.”
July 5 th 2000
“ My first blog – mind you for such a great idea, you think they would have thought up a less frumpy name! Now I’ve just got to figure out how to work the damn thing!”
Hg – London , Kai – Frankfurt , Jill – Perth, Scotland , Marijana – Germany , Sandy – London (and Moscow ), Sarah O'Keefe – North Carolina , Gretchen – North Carolina , Michael S. Taddei – Pennsylvania , Tom Johnson – Salt Lake City , "Wheat" – South Carolina , Melissa Burpo – Austin, Texas , Craig Cardimon – Pennsylvania , Simon North – Den Bosch, The Netherlands , Randi Hansen – Victoria, Canada , Gareth Williams – Harrogate, Yorkshire , Alistair Christie – Edinburgh , Dharmendra – Pune, India , Mike Unwalla – Sheffield , Katja McLaughlin – Glasgow , Milan Davidovic – Toronto , Vaish Vijay – Croydon , (and Kuala Lumpur ), Katrina – Hamilton, Scotland , Anindita Basu – India , Janet Swisher – Austin, Texas , Mark M – Sweden , David E – Peterborough , UK , Gil Vinokoor – Ramat Gan, Israel , Richard – Auckland, New Zealand , K – Glasgow , Siska – Belgium , Jeff – Toronto , Margaret – Atlanta , Scott (and Aaron) – Toronto , Julia Williams – Auckland, New Zealand , Jeff – Ontario, Canada , Cecily – Chiltern Hills, England , Margherite – Schenectady, New York , Geoff – Iowa , Tamara – Minnesota , Raj Nair – Bangalore, India , Harry Miller – Redmond, Washington , John Kearney – Staffordshire , Sylvia D – Mumbai, India
People who blog tend to be monitoring areas of interest, the more people you find the longer the tail of information that can be gleaned from the wisdom of the crowd
Blogging Futures
http://wave.google.com/
“ If you keep enabling conversations with users, your documentation can anticipate questions and give answers so responsively that your users might wonder if there’s a ghost in the machine.
Instead of concentrating on single sourcing methods or the tools of the trade, think about documentation and user assistance as a multiple–channel communication device, perhaps with the help of some social technology applications.”
Why Blog?
Be part of the conversation
Questions?
Examples:
Seth Godin – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Language Log – http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
Tom Johnson – http://www.idratherbewriting.com/
Useful Information
WordPress – http://www.wordpress.com
Blogger – http://www.blogger.com
Google Reader – http://www.google.com/reader
Technorati – http://www.technorati.com
The Conversation Prism – http://www.theconversationprism.com
IBM Blogging policy – http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html
Presentation available from: http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/why–blog/ Email me: [email_address]
Love them or loathe them blogs are here to stay, an more
Love them or loathe them blogs are here to stay, and as we continue to explore and embrace how we as technical communicators can make the most of the online world, blogs continue to be an excellent way to start, maintain and participate in global conversations about our profession.
If you are mystified as to why anyone reads blogs, why anyone writes one, if you are considering starting your own, or your company is considering dipping its toes in the Web 2.0 water, then this session should help provide some answers and insight. less
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